Valcour Bay

Valcour Bay

Infobox_nrhp | name =Valcour Bay
nrhp_type = nhl


caption = Valcour Bay
nearest_city= Plattsburgh, NY
area =
built =1776
architect=
architecture=
designated= January 1, 1961cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=364&ResourceType=Site
title=Valcour Bay|date=2007-09-21|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service
]
added = October 15, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = State
refnum=66000508

Valcour Bay is a strait 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.,citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000508.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Valcour Bay] |232 KB|author=Richard Greenwood|date=December 12, 1975|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000508.pdf Accompanying 1 photo from 1975.] |205 KB]

The Philadelphia, which was sunk during the battle, was raised in 1935 and is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. It was also declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

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