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A 1776 map showing the Battle of Valcour Bay. Valcour Island, located in Lake Champlain, is roughly rectangular in shape, extending 2 miles (3.2 km) from its northern to southern tips. It is located about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the New York state shoreline to the west.
The New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route extends along eastern and southern coast of New Jersey for nearly 300 miles (480 km). [1] It travels along the Raritan Bay from Perth Amboy to Sandy Hook , along Jersey Shore at the Atlantic Ocean to Cape May , and along the Delaware Bay to the Delaware Memorial Bridge .
Valcour Island is a 968-acre (3.92 km 2) [1]: 6 island in Lake Champlain in Clinton County, New York, United States. [2] The island is mostly in the Town of Peru and partly in the Town of Plattsburgh, southeast of the City of Plattsburgh. It is within the boundaries of the Adirondack Park.
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 ...
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)
The Pine Creek Railroad is an excursion rail line operated by railroad enthusiasts of the New Jersey Museum of Transportation.The museum, an independent not-for-profit organization, moved its locomotives and rolling stock to Allaire State Park in 1962 where it runs weekend trains on a ½ mile loop of track through the park. [6]
The Capital to Coast Trail is a 55-mile (89 km) cross-state multi-use trail network that is designed to span the U.S. state of New Jersey (west to east) from the state capital of Trenton on the Delaware River to the beach front town of Manasquan on the Atlantic Ocean.
The Edgar Felix Bikeway is a 5.4 miles (8.7 km) rail trail in New Jersey between Manasquan and Allaire State Park. The trail was constructed on a former roadbed of the Farmingdale and Squan Village Railroad and the Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad. The original trail opened in 1971, and has been expanded several times. The Edgar ...