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On October 11, 1776, a naval engagement known as the Battle of Valcour Island between British and United States naval forces under Benedict Arnold was fought in the strait adjacent to the island. Valcour was the site of several farms and summer homes (and one short-lived utopian community, the Dawn Valcour Society [4]) from the nineteenth ...
Valcour Bay is actually a strait or sound, located between Valcour Island and the west side of Lake Champlain, four miles south of Plattsburgh, New York. It was the site of the Battle of Valcour Island during the American Revolutionary War. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961 because of this association.
The Valcour (built 1947 from WWII surplus; named after Valcour Island, site of a military battle; this vessel was the last ferry to be built on Lake Champlain and was constructed at the historic Shelburne Shipyard) The Vermont (built 1992 to run in ice)
Miguel Legoas, Augusta Chronicle November 20, 2023 at 5:58 PM FILE - North Augusta approved $950,000 on Monday to build a new boat dock and overlook along this stretch of Savannah River in ...
For almost sixty years, the Victorian style lighthouse and its fifth order Fresnel lens guided ships through the channel between Valcour Island and New York State. [5] As was the case with many other lighthouses, the lighthouse keeper for Bluff Point Light was a disabled Civil War veteran , Major William Herwerth, who worked at the lighthouse ...
US 78 enters South Carolina by crossing the Savannah River in North Augusta; sharing concurrences with US 1, US 25, US 278 and South Carolina Highway 121 (SC 121). In the immediate 2-mile (3.2 km) area, it sheds most concurrencies, sharing only with US 1 towards Aiken; it also connects with Interstate 520 (I-520), which is a partial beltway around the Augusta metropolitan area.
U.S. Route 278 (US 278) is a 146.130-mile (235.173 km) east–west United States highway that traverses through the South Carolina Lowcountry, from North Augusta to Hilton Head Island. Route description
Causeway to Sanibel Island severed as Florida wakes up to Ian’s trail of destruction Linda Robertson, Zachary T. Sampson, David Ovalle September 29, 2022 at 8:06 AM