Crown Point, New York
| Crown Point, New York | |
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Ruins of the barracks at Fort Crown Point
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 Location in Essex County and the state of New York |
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| Coordinates: 43°57′1″N 73°29′1″W / 43.95028°N 73.48361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Essex |
| Government | |
| • Type | Town Council |
| • Town Supervisor | Bethany A. Kosmider (D) |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 81.9 sq mi (212.0 km2) |
| • Land | 76.1 sq mi (197.2 km2) |
| • Water | 5.7 sq mi (14.8 km2) |
| Elevation | 909 ft (277 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,024 |
| • Density | 27/sq mi (10.3/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 12928 |
| Area code(s) | 518 |
| FIPS code | 36-19246 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0978879 |
| Website | www |
Crown Point is a town in Essex County, New York, United States, located on the west shore of Lake Champlain. The population was 2,024 at the 2010 census. The name of the town is a direct translation of the original French name, "Pointe à la Chevelure".
The town is on the eastern edge of Essex County. It is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Burlington, Vermont, 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Queensbury, New York, 120 miles (190 km) south of Montreal, Quebec, and 107 miles (172 km) north of Albany, New York.
Two European forts were built here by colonists because of its strategic location at the narrows of Lake Champlain. The forts preceded organization of the town by more than half a century: first was Fort Saint-Frédéric built by the French in 1731, who came to this area from their colonial settlements to the north at Quebec and Montreal. They competed with the British for the fur trade with Native Americans in the area.
During the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in North America), the British gained control of this area. Before that, the French retreated and destroyed their fort to keep it out of the hands of the British. The latter built Fort Crown Point in 1759, then the largest earthen fort in their colonies. With British victory in the war, after 1763 France ceded all its territory in North America east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
During colonial times and the American Revolutionary War, Crown Point continued to be important for its strategic location - on the west shore of Lake Champlain about 15 miles (24 km) north of Fort Ticonderoga, about a day's travel by the modes of that time period. After the failure of the patriot American invasion of Canada in 1776, Crown Point represented the northernmost area under American control. During the British Saratoga campaign in 1777, General John Burgoyne organized a supply magazine here to support his attack of Ticonderoga.
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