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City of Saratoga Springs. Champ sightings lake champlain. Fort Ticonderoga. Detail of a 1758 map showing the fort's layout Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States.

Fort Ticonderoga

It was constructed by Canadien Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between 1754 and 1757 during the Seven Years' War, often referred to as the French and Indian War in the US. It was of strategic importance during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France, and again played a role during the American Revolutionary War. Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain (French: Lac Champlain) is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States (states of Vermont and New York) but partially situated across the Canada-United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Lake Champlain

Geology[edit] Landsat photo. Saratoga Springs, New York. History[edit] The area was occupied by the Algonquian-speaking Mahican Indians before they were pushed out by European settlement, both Dutch and English colonists.

Saratoga Springs, New York

They eventually moved east and became allied with other remnant peoples and became known as the Stockbridge Indians, as they settled near Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The English built Fort Saratoga in 1691 on the west bank of the Hudson River. The current village of Schuylerville, New York was settled about a mile south by English colonists shortly after the fort; it was known as Saratoga until 1831. In 1767, William Johnson, a British soldier who was a hero of the French and Indian Wars, was brought by Native American friends to springs about 10 miles (16 km) west of the village.

The first permanent European-American settler built a dwelling about 1776. Saratoga Springs was established as a settlement in 1819 from a western portion of the Town of Saratoga. Geography[edit] Saratoga Springs is located at WikiMiniAtlas. Hattie's™ Restaurant. Sunnyside washington irving. Adirondack Park. The Adirondack Park is a publicly protected, elliptical area encompassing much of the northeastern lobe of Upstate New York, United States.

Adirondack Park

It is the largest park and the largest state-level protected area in the contiguous United States, and the largest National Historic Landmark. Once a hunting ground for numerous Native American tribes, the land that makes up the Park was surrendered to the U.S. Government as a result of the American Revolution in 1783. The events leading up to the creation of the Park were a coordinated effort on both private and public fronts that aimed to transform and protect the land; comparable to, yet different than other national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite. This struggle to conserve the land and balance exploitation and conversation originated from philosophies and arguments presented in George Perkins Marsh's work “Man and Nature” that highlight the negative impacts of civilization and man in general. History[edit] Early history[edit] Great Camps of the Adirondacks history & slide show, pie irons, fireside recipes. Lake Placid, NY - Adirondacks.

East Side Historic District (Saratoga Springs, New York) The East Side Historic District is a primarily residential neighborhood located to the east of downtown Saratoga Springs, New York, United States.

East Side Historic District (Saratoga Springs, New York)

It is an irregularly shaped area 114 acres (46 ha) in size, extending almost to Saratoga Race Course from the neighborhood of Congress Park. Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The town takes its name from an estate donated by John Bard and his wife to Columbia University so that a college could be formed there.

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Today, Bard College stands on the land that John Bard donated. Bard College houses the only post office for Annandale-on-Hudson's ZIP code, 12504. Pollepel Island. Pollepel Island /pɒlɨˈpɛl/ is an island in the Hudson River.

Pollepel Island

Also known as Pollopel Island, Pollopel's Island, Bannerman's Island,[1] and Bannermans' Island, is the site of Bannermans' Castle.[2][3] Pollepel Island is about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City[4] and about 1,000 feet (300 m) from the Hudson River's eastern bank.[3] It contains about 6.5 acres (26,000 m2), most of it rock.[3] The principal feature on the island is Bannermans' Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse.[2] One side of the castle carries the words "Bannermans' Island Arsenal".[2][3] It was built in the style of a castle by Gilded Age businessman Francis Bannerman VI (1851–1918),[3] who had purchased the island in 1901. Early history[edit] Bannerman's Castle[edit] Francis Bannerman VI[edit] Kykuit. Kykuit (/ˈkaɪkʌt/ KEYE-kut),[3] also known as John D.

Kykuit

Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room National Trust house in Westchester County, New York, built by oil tycoon, Capitalist and Rockefeller family patriarch John D. Rockefeller. Largely conceived by his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and enriched by the art collection of third-generation scion, Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States, Nelson A. Washington Irving's Sunnyside in Tarrytown, N.Y. Please note that Sunnyside is closed for the season and will reopen on May 3, 2014.

Washington Irving's Sunnyside in Tarrytown, N.Y.

Hear about Washington Irving's storied past and how he came to be America's first internationally famous author, best remembered now for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other short stories. His characters, from Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane to the mysterious Headless Horseman and the comic Rip Van Winkle, are icons in American culture.