Fort St. Frédéric

Infobox_nrhp | name =Fort St. Frederic
nrhp_type = nhl

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caption = Foreground: Fort St. Frédéric
location= Crown Point, New York
locmapin=New York
lat_degrees = 44 | lat_minutes = 1 | lat_seconds = 45 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73 | long_minutes = 25 | long_seconds = 52 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1731
architect=
architecture=
designated=October 9, 1960 cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=370&ResourceType=Site
title=Fort St. Frederic|date=2007-09-12|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966 cite 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=66000517

Fort St. Frédéric was a French fort built on Lake Champlain (on the border between modern New York State and Vermont in the United States) to secure the region.

Construction started in 1734. When complete the walls were twelve feet thick and four stories high, with cannons on each level. It was manned by over a thousand officers and men. [p. 18, Folwell, Elizabeth, and Amy Godine, Adirondack Odysseys, The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, 1997, ISBN 0-936399-78-3] The fort gave the French control of the New France/Vermont border region in the Lake Champlain Valley and many raids originated from here. It was the only permanent fort in the area until the building of Fort Carillon (later captured by the British and renamed Fort Ticonderoga) more than 20 years later. The fort was constructed at a strategic bend in the lake, at its narrowest point. The cannons of Fort St. Frédéric and the later Crown Point fort were capable of cutting off all travel north and south on the lake.

In 1759 when the British forces moved north during the French and Indian War the retreating French destroyed Fort St. Frédéric. [p. 19, Folwell, Elizabeth, and Amy Godine, op. cit.] The British then built Fort Crown Point just west of the ruins of the French fort, in the winter of 1759. The remains of both forts are now a state historic site located in New York. Both are also U.S. National Historic Landmarks; Fort St. Frederic was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=370&ResourceType=Site
title=Fort St. Frederic|date=2007-09-12|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service] ,cite web|url=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000517.pdf "Fort St. Frederic", by Richard Greenwood] |560 KiB |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination|date=1976-02-20|publisher=National Park Service] ,cite web|url=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000517.pdf Fort St. Frederic--Accompanying photos from 1958 and 1967.] |683 KiB |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory|date=1976-02-20|publisher=National Park Service]

References

ee also

* New France
* Fort Ticonderoga
* Fort Crown Point
* Crown Point State Historic Site

External links

* [http://www.nysparks.state.ny.us/sites/info.asp?siteID=8 Crown Point State Historic Site] (Official State park web site), at NYSOPRHP