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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.
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.
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 ...
Unity Island (formerly known as Squaw Island [Buffalo]) Valcour Island; Valiant Rock; Van Rensselaer Island; ... "Wellesley Island State Park". parks.ny.gov ...
The Battle of Valcour Island, also known as the Battle of Valcour Bay, was a naval engagement that took place on October 11, 1776, on Lake Champlain. The main action took place in Valcour Bay , a narrow strait between the New York mainland and Valcour Island .
Valcour Bay: Valcour Bay: October 15, 1966 : 7 miles (11 km) south of Plattsburgh on the west shore of Lake Champlain: Plattsburgh: Site of Battle of Valcour Island during Revolutionary War: 50: Valcour Island Lighthouse: Valcour Island Lighthouse
The Chazy Fossil Reef National Natural Landmark includes three islands in Lake Champlain.Included within the designated area are two preserves on Vermont's Isle La Motte; the 20-acre (8.1 ha) Fisk Quarry Preserve and the 83-acre (34 ha) Goodsell Ridge Preserve are both open to the public and managed by the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust. [2]
Schodack Island State Park; Schuyler Island; Shelter Island (Fourth Lake) Shelter Island, New York; Stomy Island; ... Valcour Island; Van Rensselaer Island;