Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain)

Fort Montgomery
The remaining southern two bastions and curtain (wall) of Fort Montgomery, July 17, 2011. Note the numerous rifle loopholes on the lower level.
LocationRouses Point, Champlain, Clinton County, New York, US
Built1844
ArchitectMontgomery C. Meigs; Joseph Totten
NRHP reference No.77000937
Added to NRHPAugust 22, 1977

Fort Montgomery on Lake Champlain is the second of two United States forts built at the northernmost point of the United States part of the lake: a first, unnamed fort built on the same site in 1816 and Fort Montgomery built in 1844.

The current massive stone fortification, the second fort, was built between 1844 and 1871 at the Canada–US border of Lake Champlain at Island Point in the village of Rouses Point, New York.

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