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For almost 200 years, the Glens Falls Feeder Canal has supplied water from the Hudson River to the Champlain Canal and helped to transport people and goods between Glens Falls and Fort Edward. Today, the Feeder Canal still serves its original function of sending water to the Champlain Canal, but also offers recreational opportunities to...

Quietly nestled in the hills west of Crown Point, the hamlet of Ironville maintains an important industrial legacy that is embodied in its phenomenal collection of historic buildings and structures. The discovery of iron ore near Ironville’s Penfield homestead in the late 1820s led to the development of a thriving ironworks. In the early 1830s,...

Today a National Historic Landmark, Lake Champlain’s Valcour Bay was the site of the first naval engagement between the American Continental forces’ fledgling navy and a British fleet during the Revolutionary War. In October 1776, a small naval flotilla under the command of Benedict Arnold engaged a larger British fleet near this notable island at...