The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of Clinton County and Essex County.

The Champlain Valley itself is a physiographic section of the larger Saint Lawrence Valley, which in turn is part of the larger Appalachian physiographic division.

Lake Champlain is situated in the Lake Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York, drained northward by the long Richelieu River into the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec northeast and downstream of Montreal.

Both I-89 and U. S. 2 provide a direct link to Burlington and the populous Lake Champlain Valley in the northwestern corner of the state.

The Saint Lawrence Valley is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division, containing the Champlain and Northern physiographic section.

The site controlled a river portage alongside the mouth of the rapids-infested La Chute River in the between Lake Champlain and Lake George and was strategically placed in conflicts over trade routes between the British-controlled Hudson River Valley and the French-controlled Saint Lawrence River Valley.

In June 1758, British General James Abercromby began amassing a large force at Fort William Henry in preparation for the military campaign directed up the Champlain Valley.

Category: Champlain Valley National Heritage Area

The county transitions from the Taconic Mountains to the Adirondack Mountains, and from the Lake Champlain Valley to Hudson River Valley.

Washington County belongs to the following valleys and watersheds: Champlain Valley / Lake George Watershed — 02010001 Hudson River Valley / Hudson-Hoosic Watershed — 02020003 Waters in the northern part drain into Lake Champlain via Lake George ( Horican ) or the Mettawee River, and then flow into the Saint Lawrence River ( Kaniatarowanenneh ).

Lyon Mountain is the home of the Lyon Mountain Miners who play in the Champlain Valley Baseball League.

As is common in the Champlain Valley, much of the land in Panton is flat and suitable for agriculture.

Fort Carillon is situated on a point of land between Lake Champlain and Lake George, at a natural point of conflict between French forces moving south from Canada and the St. Lawrence River Valley across the lake toward the Hudson Valley, and British forces moving up the Hudson from Albany.

The third campaign, assigned to General James Abercrombie, was to launch an attack against Canada through the Champlain Valley.

In its northern section, the Great Valley includes the Champlain Valley around Lake Champlain and the upper Richelieu River that drains it into the Saint Lawrence ; the Hudson River Valley, Newburgh Valley, and Wallkill Valley ; and the Kittatinny Valley, Lehigh Valley, Lebanon Valley, and Cumberland Valley.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

The Spirit of Ethan Allen III is a tour boat operating on Lake Champlain.

* 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

In 1632 and 1656 is was referred to as Lac de St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively ( likely for Louis XIV of France ) In 1660 Jesuit historian Francis Creuxius coined the name Lacus Ontarius.

Lake Champlain ( French: lac Champlain ) is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States ( states of Vermont and New York ) but partially situated across the Canada-United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Although it is smaller than the Great Lakes of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Superior, or Michigan, Lake Champlain is a large body of fresh water.

It is connected to the Hudson River by the Champlain Canal.

This mysterious creature is likely the original Lake Champlain monster.

The plan is being implemented by the Lake Champlain Basin Program and its partners at the state, provincial, federal and local level.

Agricultural and urban runoff from the watershed or drainage basin is the primary source of excess phosphorus, which exacerbates algae blooms in Lake Champlain.

While agricultural sources ( manure and fertilizers ) are the primary sources of phosphorus ( about 70 %) in the Missisquoi basin, runoff from developed land and suburbs is estimated to contribute about 46 % of the phosphorus runoff basin-wide to Lake Champlain, and agricultural lands contributed about 38 %.

Although there are pollution issues, Lake Champlain is safe for swimming, fishing, and boating.

Maine's Moosehead Lake is the largest lake wholly in New England, as Lake Champlain is located between Vermont and New York.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.

Located here is a campus of the University of New Brunswick, as well as southwestern New Brunswick's largest health care centre, the Saint John Regional Hospital, and Saint John's only completely French school, Samuel de Champlain.

* July 3 – Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

* July 30 – At what is now Crown Point, New York, Samuel de Champlain participates in a battle between the Huron and Iroquois, shooting and killing two Iroquois chiefs ; this helps set the tone for French – Iroquois relations for the next 100 years.

It occurs in prominent outcropping at Goodsell Ridge, Isle La Motte, the northernmost island in Lake Champlain.

Following the War of 1812, the US Army began construction on " Fort Blunder ", an unnamed fortification built by the Americans at the northernmost end of Lake Champlain to protect against any further attacks from British Canada.

The northernmost is the Adirondack Mountains, a southerly extension of the Canadian Shield, which reach the valley along the shores of Lake Champlain and Lake George.

Heading north from Burlington, however, along the east side of Lake Champlain, Interstate 89 runs through the valley's northernmost stretches to the Canadian border, where it becomes Quebec Route 133 and Autoroute 35, which trace the route of the Richelieu River in its southern section, where the Great Valley finally dissipates into the plain of the Saint Lawrence River to the east of Montreal.

It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost navigable point of Lake Champlain.

The Champlain Valley is among the northernmost valleys considered part of the Great Appalachian Valley reaching from Canada to Alabama.

Clinton Community College, a member unit of the State University of New York, is situated at Bluff Point, approximately 4 miles south of Plattsburgh, on forested heights overlooking Lake Champlain.

In the early 19th century, the construction of the Champlain Canal connected Lake Champlain to the Hudson River system, allowing north-south commerce by water from New York City to Montreal and Atlantic Canada.

Champlain did not understand that the Algonquins were socially united by a strong totem / clan system rather than the European-styled political concept of nationhood.

In 1901 the Rutland Railroad completed construction of a system of causeways and trestles across Lake Champlain, through the Champlain islands, to connect between Burlington, Vermont and Rouses Point, New York.

With nearly 160, 000 daily crossings, the Champlain Bridge is the busiest bridge in Canada ( the Hogg's Hollow bridge system in Toronto is the busiest multi-structure bridge in North America, with four separate bridges averaging a combined 400, 000 + vehicles a day through Highway 401 ).

An existing elevator connecting the station to Place du Canada and the Château Champlain, formerly the only elevator in the system, is separated from the mezzanine level by steps.

As Canada had not yet adopted the Metric system, exit numbers referenced the distance in miles from the southern end of the Champlain Bridge.

Currently, the 525-mile ( 845 km ) system is composed of the Erie Canal, the Oswego Canal, the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, and the Champlain Canal.