The Shelburne Museum
Located in Vermont’s scenic Lake Champlain Valley, The Shelburne Museum offers one of the finest, most diverse, and unconventional museums of art and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of …
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Lake Champlain History
The history of the Lake Champlain is long and …
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Lake Champlain Steamboats
Steamships on Lake Champlain
In 1809, about two hundred years after Samuel de Champlain first saw the lake that would later bear his name, the steamboat Vermont was launched. The Vermont was a new kind of vessel - not powered by paddles, oars, …
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This article by Chris Carola on the first U.S. Navy ship named the Ticonderoga first appeared on the Press-Republican
Battle of Plattsburgh relic still stored in Whitehall shed
ALBANY — The upstate New York village that bills itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Navy hasn’t done much to …
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People Who Shaped the History of Lake Champlain
The history of Lake Champlain is rich and varied due to its key location. From pre-colonial civilizations, through the military history of the French and Indian, Revolutionary War and The War of 1812 and through the commercial and recreational …
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