Something I found interesting, while meeting people from different places while on tour here, they weren’t taught about this fort in school. While I was taught quite a bit since I went to school a couple hours away from here. It’s military significance is from being on the southern end of Lake Champlain, right next to Lake George. You have to remember that in the 1700-1800s, rivers and lakes were huge thoroufares for getting people and goods to different areas. This is why most of our oldest cities were built on waterways, since roads were barely maintained and could be dangerous to horses, wagons and people. So Lake Champlain, with the St Lawrence seaway and the Hudson River was a major trade route in the Revolutionary times. Since it was adjacent to both Lakes, it gave this fort a great advantage to control this waterway but also put it right in the center of war when we had the French and Indian wars (or as the Europeans say: 7 Years war) This place was blown up several times by the loosing sides every time it got recaptured. Why? so that the conquering army didn’t get extra ammunition. Not that they could have used it anyway, since every country made their own to different specifications, but they could melt it back down and repurposed it. So by the time The revolution was over, this fort was in ruins and during the 1800s, slowly picked apart, locals using the stone to build what they needed. However, in the 1920s, the Pell family came in and bought the land and ruins, formed a foundation and started turning it into a tourist/ history destination! There are several programs there that would interest anyone into history: there’s a boat tour, a tour of the gardens that supplied the whole fort and a food tasting from that era. These were mighty informative, so plan on spending two days just trying to soak everything in! Your tickets are good for the second day too!