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Chazy Landing in Clinton County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
 

Gen Burgoyne

 
 
Gen Burgoyne Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Tim Dusablon, March 30, 2024
1. Gen Burgoyne Marker
Inscription.
1777 Gen Burgoyne Passed by water in June to Saratoga - his troops, building a baggage road, laid logs over a swampy spot near here
 
Erected by Chazy Friends of the Library.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary. A significant historical month for this entry is June 1777.
 
Location. 44° 53.568′ N, 73° 22.741′ W. Marker is in Chazy, New York, in Clinton County. It is in Chazy Landing. It is at the intersection of Lake Shore Road (County Route 22) and Duffina Point, on the left when traveling east on Lake Shore Road. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Chazy NY 12921, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York, in the Adirondacks & North Country, and in the Champlain Valley. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Great North Woods, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France, New Netherland, and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Sept. 11, 1814 (approx. 0.4 miles away); Matthew Sax (approx. 0.4 miles away); Capt. de Chazy (approx. 0.8 miles away); Sweet's Ferry (approx. 1.4 miles away in Vermont); 1805 Log Home (approx. 1½ miles away); Samuel de Champlain Monument (approx. 1.6 miles away in Vermont); A Place Of Pilgrimage (approx. 1.6 miles away in Vermont); Site of French Fort Ste. Anne (approx. 1.6 miles away in Vermont). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Chazy.
 
Regarding Gen Burgoyne. British General Burgoyne would begin his 1777 campaign here on Northern
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Lake Champlain. Going south, he would eventually lead the British army during the fateful Battles of Bennington and Saratoga which would end in a major American victory turning the tide of the American Revolutionary War.
 
Gen Burgoyne Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Tim Dusablon, March 30, 2024
2. Gen Burgoyne Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on May 24, 2024. It was originally submitted on May 18, 2024, by Tim Dusablon of Georgia, Vermont. This page has been viewed 517 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on May 18, 2024, by Tim Dusablon of Georgia, Vermont. • Michael Herrick was the editor who published this page.
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