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The French built a fortress at Crown Point in the 1730s with 12-foot (3.7 m) thick limestone walls named Fort Saint-Frédéric.British forces targeted it twice during the French and Indian War before the French destroyed it in the summer of 1759.
Crown Point (also known historically as Thor's Heights or Thor's Crown) [1] [2] is a basalt promontory on the Columbia River Gorge and an associated state park in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located in eastern Multnomah County , approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of Portland .
The site is on a peninsula in the town of Crown Point, New York. Crown Point is the location of the 1734–1759 French-built Fort St. Frédéric limestone fortress and an even more ambitious British fort constructed during the French and Indian War, starting in 1759, Fort Crown Point.
At the same time they built a fleet to gain military control of Lake Champlain and the 77-mile-long Crown Point Road across the Green Mountains to reach the Connecticut River. Since 1910 the remains of both forts on the Crown Point peninsula are part of the Crown Point State Historic Site. Both are also U.S. National Historic Landmarks. Fort ...
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Crown Point, Alaska, a census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough; Crown Point, an area of Westminster, Colorado; Crown Point, Indiana, a city in Lake County; Crown Point, Louisiana, an unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish; Crown Point, New York, a town in Essex County; Crown Point, Oregon (disambiguation), several places
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District is a historic district in Crown Point, Indiana, that dates back to 1873. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Its boundaries were changed in 2005, and it was increased in 2007 to include a Moderne architecture building at 208 Main Street. [ 1 ]
Crownpoint (Navajo: Tʼiistsʼóóz Ńdeeshgizh) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Navajo Nation in McKinley County, New Mexico.The population was 2,900 at the time of the 2020 census, [3] up from 2,278 in 2010. [4]