The 1731 French fort at Chimney Point in a 1986 sketch by artist Len Tantillo. (Sketch Provided)
Posted on 03/24/2010 6:30:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Part of a stone foundation discovered next to one of the old Champlain Bridge pillars could be from a small French fort built in 1731. The foundation is about a foot and a half from the side of a pillar on the Vermont shore, but archeologists don't know if it's from the fort or an early house. The Champlain Bridge closed Oct. 16, 2009, and was destroyed by controlled explosives Dec. 28. A new bridge is scheduled to be constructed nearby starting this spring... The foundation is about a foot below the surface of the ground and was discovered during an archeological site review before construction of temporary ferry docks for the new Crown Point Ferry... Chimney Point is a hamlet in the Town of Addison, Vt., and the Chimney Point State Historic Site is located next to the foundation.
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The 1731 French fort at Chimney Point in a 1986 sketch by artist Len Tantillo. (Sketch Provided)
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When do they reckon it was surrendered?
You remember that was around the time that the official French Flag was white!
French Fleur-De-Lis Flag (White)
 Prior to the French Revolution, there was no national flag which represented France. A variety of flags were used by troops, different types of ships and for other purposes. From 1590-1790 this flag is one of four that was used on warships and fortresses. The plain white flag, known as the Bourbon Banner, and this white flag with three golden fleurs-de-lis, a white flag with many fleurs-de-lis, or a white flag with many fleurs-de-lis with the arms of France in the center. The simpler designs such as this were used in ordinary circumstances and it is believed that the white flag of France flew over all or most of the French forts and settlements in America. |
:’) Probably wound up abandoned due to lack of interest / budget problems, or was turned over as a consequence of the F & I war.
Sacrebleu! You mean ze white flag means surrender!? And to preserve honor we must give up? Mon Dieu zat is seeming no fair! Ze Americans, zay win every time without ze fight.
Sorry, the Dutch/English beat them to it; built one there in 1690, “the little stone fort”- as opposed to the French one built 40 years later.
1689 -Governor Leisler sent in 1689 sixty men to the pass [Crown Point] in the Lake Champlain to maintain this as an outpost. -Hemingway, “Vermont Gazeteer”, Vol. 1, p2
1690 March 26 The Governor of New York authorized Captain Jacob D`Warm to go with 12 English and 20 Native Americans
to build a “little stone fort” at present-day Vermont-
Bellico, “Chronicles of Lake Champlain”, p.46
Coolidge, “The French Occupation of the Champlain
Valley”, p.59
Brandow, “The Story of Old Saratoga and the History of
Schuylerville”, p.17
1690 small stone fort built at Chimney Point by Jacob D`Warm
- Tuttle, “Three Centuries in the Champlain Valley”, p. 86
Boy, that sure doesn’t look like a ‘sketch’. Doesn’t look like a painting either, looks like someone did a model of the fort and then photographed the model.
Was the artist from 1731? Why is it he knew this fort’s layout so well but we at this point are excavating the foundations?
I suppose the artist could be that good, would like to know if this is indeed a painting.
Maybe it was a miniature used in a movie. :’)
Hey, is that, yes! It’s Corporel Agarn!
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