Fort St. Frédéric

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Fort St. Frederic
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Foreground: Fort St. Frédéric
Location:	Crown Point, New York
Coordinates:	44°1′45″N 73°25′52″W / 44.02917, -73.43111Coordinates: 44°1′45″N 73°25′52″W / 44.02917, -73.43111
Built/Founded:	1731
Designated as NHL:	October 9, 1960 ^[1]
Added to NRHP:	October 15, 1966 ^[2]
NRHP Reference#:	66000517
Governing body:	State

Fort St. Frédéric was a French fort built on Lake Champlain (on the border between modern New York State and Vermont in the United States) to secure the region.

Construction started in 1734. The fort, when completed, gave the French control of the New France/Vermont border region in the Lake Champlain Valley and was the only permanent fort in the area until the building of Fort Carillon (later captured by the British and renamed Fort Ticonderoga) more than 20 years later. The fort was constructed at a turn in the lake at its narrowest point, the cannons of Fort St. Frédéric and later the Crown Point fort were capable of cutting off all travel north and south on the lake.

When the British forces moved north during the French and Indian War the retreating French destroyed Fort St. Frédéric. The British built Fort Crown Point near the ruins of the 1734-1759 French fort. The remains of both forts are now a state historic site located in New York. Both are also U.S. National Historic Landmarks; Fort St. Frederic was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.^[1],^[3],^[4]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Fort St. Frederic. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service (2007-09-12).
^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
^ ["Fort St. Frederic", by Richard GreenwoodPDF (560 KiB) National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination]. National Park Service (1976-02-20).
^ [Fort St. Frederic--Accompanying photos from 1958 and 1967.PDF (683 KiB) National Register of Historic Places Inventory]. National Park Service (1976-02-20).

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[edit] External links

Crown Point State Historic Site (Official State park web site), at NYSOPRHP

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