Thursday, Sept 27, moving on

By 10:00 we were packed up & ready to move on. It was sunny and 9C.

After a couple of delays due to construction, we crossed the new bridge into Vermont. There had been a ferry running until the bridge was opened last November.








At 11.40, we arrived at 10 Acres Campground, and after some shuffling around got set up. There had been a lot of rain last night and the ground was very soft.
After lunch, we went back across the bridge to look at Crown Pointe State Historic Site. It contains preserved ruins of the fortifications used during the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars.

Then it was off to find Fort Ticonderoga National Historic Landmark. Originally built by the French in 1755 to control the narrow shipping point on Lake Champlain, it was captured by the British in 1759. In 1775, Ethan Allen, and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Benedict Arnold, took the fort from the British in a bloodless surprise attack in 1775. www.fortticonderoga.org