Fort Montgomery preservation effort

September 10, 2009 | Posted by javal

It’s often been referred to as Fort Blunder.

But Fort Montgomery, near the U.S.-Canadian border, still stands overlooking Lake Champlain in Rouses Point. Today, though, it represents just a very small snapshot of what the fort looked like when it was built during the Civil War era as a northernmost defense against invaders coming into the country via the lake.

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