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1 BATTLE OF PLATTSBURGH INTERPRETIVE CENTRE & WAR OF 1812 MUSEUM Display of military victory of War of 1812 and diorama of Battle of Plattsburgh.
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17 CITY HALL Built in 1918 and designed by John Russell Pope.
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1A BATEAU "ROOSTER" 30 foot replica of bateau used during the battle.
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17A MURALS Painted by Artist Peter Charlap.
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2 MILITARY BARRACKS Built in 1838 - Lt. Ulysses S. Grant lived here while stationed in the Army. |
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17B CONFIANCE ANCHOR Raised from Lake Champlain.
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3 FORT MOREAU Centre and key point of the American line during the battle.
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18 MACDONOUGH MONUMENT
Built in 1926 to commemorate the victory of the Battle of Plattsburgh. Designed by John Russell Pope.
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4 FORT SCOTT Right flank of the American defense during the battle.
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19 SAILLY HOME Peter Sailly was Congressman and Collector of Customs for New York side of Lake Champlain.
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5 FORT BROWN
Left flank of the
American defense during the battle
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20 KENT DELORD HOUSE MUSEUM Built in 1797 - house used by British officers during the Battle of Plattsburgh.
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6 BLOCKHOUSE
American fortification during the Battle of Plattsburgh.
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21 SAMUEL de CHAMPLAIN MONUMENT
Monument for French Explorer Samuel de Champlain.
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7 ZEPHANIAH PLATT
Site of home for the founder of Plattsburgh.
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22 FIRST BLOCKHOUSE
Built in 1789 as protection from British and Indian raids before 1812
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8 BENJAMIN MOOERS HOUSE Home of Major General Benjamin Mooers. During the battle this was the headquarters for General Alexander Macomb.
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23 BOYNTON FARM
Headquarters of British General Brisbane.
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9 COUNT CHARLES de FREDENBURGH
First settlement in Plattsburgh.
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24 BRITISH CAMPSITE
British soldiers set up a campsite on this site.
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10 UNITED STATES HOTEL & ISRAEL GREEN TAVERN
Site of one of Plattsburgh's earliest buildings. In 1817 President Monroe was a guest here.
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25 HALSEY'S CORNERS
Captain Leonard's light artillery resisted the heroic advance of the British.
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11 BRIDGE STREET MARKER
Site of teenage soldiers stopping the British.
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26 COL. THOMAS MILLER'S HOUSE
Commander of the 8th regular N.Y. Militia. Home occupied by British during the battle.
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12 WILLIAM BEAUMONT M.D.
Army surgeon during the Battle of Plattsburgh.
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27 ISAAC PLATT HOME Headquarters of Major General Robinson. The British wounded at Halsey's Corners were brought here.
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13 COLONEL MELANCTON SMITH'S HOME
Occupied by British General Prevost during the battle.
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28 RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
Contains the graves of American and British officers killed in the Battle of Plattsburgh.
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13A MACDONOUGH PLAQUE
Commemorates Macdonough's Naval victory over the British.
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29 PIKE'S CANTONMENT
American campsite on Saranac River under the command of Col. Zebulon Pike.
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14 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
First church in Plattsburgh 1797. Occupied by British.
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30 MILITARY POST CEMETERY
Monument of Unknown dead of the War of 1812.
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15 BAPTIST CHURCH
Site of Polly Averill's home.
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31 CRAB ISLAND
Site of Hospital and Cemetery in the War of 1812.
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16 DUNHAM HOUSE - BRITISH HOSPITAL
Basement used as British Hospital.
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32 CLINTON COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM Inside are dioramas of naval battles of Valcour, on Lake Champlain, (1776) and Plattsburgh (1814), complement paintings, maps, furniture and decorative art objects in the collection. |
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CLINTON COUNTY CHAMPLAIN QUADRICENTENNIAL MURAL Mural made by 1000 School Children.
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The Lord
Baden-Powell Award
For Scouting Excellence On The World-Wide-Web
2011
