Champlain and Rouses Point

Due to its proximity to the border, the area served as a staging point during the War of 1812. Plattsburgh, a city twenty miles to the south, had fended off a British-Canadian attack shortly after dawn on 11 September 1814, in the final days of the war.
The first, un-named attempt at constructing a US fort directly on the border in 1816 became known as "Fort Blunder" as a surveying error placed the fortifications 3/4 of a mile into Canadian territory. After the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 placed Island Point in the US a second fort, Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain), was built between 1844 and 1871. The guns from the second fortress were dismantled in the early 1900s.

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• Barcomb's Marina

  phone: +1 518 297-6112
  address: 90 Montgomery St, Rouses Point

• Gaines Marina

  phone: +1 518 297-7000
  address: 141 Lake St, Rouses Point

• Samuel De Champlain History Center

  phone: +1 518 298-1609
  address: 202 Elm St, Champlain
  Historical museum.

• Alice T Miner Museum

  phone: +1 518 846-7336
  address: 9618 US Route 9, Chazy

• Angelo's Pizza & Grill

  phone: +1 518 297-4200
  address: 44 Champlain St, Rouses Point

• Champlain River Grill

  phone: +1 518 298-4400
  address: 1147 Main, Champlain

• Sandy's Deli

  phone: +1 518 297-6951
  address: 133 Lake St, Rouses Point

• Heaton House B&B

  phone: +1 518 726-0911
  address: 284 Lake St, Rouses Point