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Lake Champlain (/ ʃ æ m ˈ p l eɪ n / sham-PLAYN; French: Lac Champlain, pronounced [lak ʃɑ̃plɛ̃] ⓘ) is a natural freshwater lake in North America. It mostly lies between the US states of New York and Vermont , but also extends north into the Canadian province of Quebec .
Interestingly, the pronunciation was once a source of heated debate between settlers originating from the North, who said it after Helena Township in Minnesota, and the former Confederacy, who ...
On July 23, Sen. Peter Welch, D, Vt., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., introduced the bicameral Lake Champlain Basin ...
Skowhegan (/ s k aʊ ˈ h iː ɡ ən /) is the county seat of Somerset County, Maine, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census , the town population was 8,620. [ 3 ] Every August, Skowhegan hosts the annual Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest continuously held state fair in the United States.
Champlain Canal: Extends from Cohoes to Whitehall, featuring 11 locks (numbered 1 to 12, with no lock 10). Lake Champlain and Richelieu River: From Whitehall, New York, to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. Chambly Canal: Provides a bypass for rapids on the Richelieu River, extending from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu to Chambly, Quebec, with 9 locks.
The Kennebec River (Abenaki: Kinəpékʷihtəkʷ) is a 170-mile-long (270 km) [1] river within the U.S. state of Maine.It rises in Moosehead Lake in west-central Maine.The East and West Outlets join at Indian Pond and the river flows southward.
Ausable Chasm is the namesake of the Ausable River, which runs through the gorge and empties into Lake Champlain about one mile (1.6 km) away. The gorge started forming about 10,000 years ago through headward erosion caused by Rainbow Falls, a 91 feet (28 m) waterfall at the gorge's southern extreme. [ 3 ]
Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain. Initial ...