There was a bit of excitement when a bunch of the … professionally installed wires melted down in the electric box. Apparently the wires were correct, but the breaker was a 60 instead of a 50, so, we had an exciting morning until that was fixed. Honestly, I’m amazed it didn’t happen sooner. Anyway, I picked a NY State campground based on distance from here, not really paying attention to where it was. We got really lucky, Crown Point State Park is on the banks of Lake Champlain and has a lighthouse on site. Across the street are ruins of two forts, one French and one British from the 1700s. It was incredible, the history, the re-enactors, but also seeing the ridiculous amount of work people did in that time. The French quarried stone from the site and built a 4 story fort on the banks of the lake, with walls 16 feet thick in some parts. The British came, and on their retreat to Canada, the French blew the fort up. Instead of rebuilding, the British used the rock from the French fort and quarried more rock and built a much bigger fort just behind the old French fort, higher on the hill. They ended up accidentally blowing their fort up when a cooking fire got out of control and hit the room where the powder was stored. They mostly moved out, but left a small contingent, who ended up surrendering to Gen. Seth Warner from Fort Ticonderoga. Twenty miles south, Fort Ticonderoga had a similar dramatic history. Built in 1755 by the French, taken by the British in 1758, taken by Americans in 1775, then back to British and German combined forces in 1777, then fired on and destroyed by Americans two months later (using cannons they captured from the British). It was an amazing weekend, perfect weather, beautiful scenery (though smoke from fires came in) and American history.
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