village in Clinton County, New York, United States
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Champlain and Rouses Point are a pair of adjacent villages in Northern New York on the U.S.-Canada border. The villages, 20 miles (30 km) north of Plattsburgh and 40 miles (60 km) south of Montreal, are the northernmost in the state of New York.

Understand

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Fort Montgomery, the second fortress at Rouses Point

Due to its proximity to the border, the area served as a staging point during the War of 1812. Plattsburgh, a city 20 miles to the south, had fended off a British-Canadian attack shortly after dawn on September 11, 1814, in the final days of the war.

The first, un-named attempt at constructing a U.S. fort directly on the border in 1816 became known as "Fort Blunder" as a surveying error placed the fortifications ¾ mile into Canadian territory. After the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 placed Island Point in the U.S. a second fort, Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain), was built between 1844 and 1871. The guns from the second fortress were dismantled in the early 1900s.

Get in

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Delaware & Hudson railroad station

By car

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I-87, from New York City and Albany, terminates at the border crossing in Champlain. Immediately after the border, Autoroute 15 heads north to Montreal and the Laurentians. US-11 passes through both Champlain and Rouses Point, before becoming Quebec Route 223 northbound to Contrecœur/Sorel.

By train

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See also: Rail travel in the United States

By boat

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Get around

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US-11 links the villages.

Drink

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Sleep

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Connect

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Routes through Champlain and Rouses Point
Montreal Saint-Lambert  N  S  Plattsburgh Albany (Rensselaer)
Montreal Lacolle ← becomes  N  S  Plattsburgh Albany
END  W  E  Grand Isle Burlington
END  N  S  Plattsburgh Albany
Beloeil Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ← becomes  N  S  Malone Watertown


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Champlain (village), New York
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