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The Kids' Guide to the Vermont State-Owned Historic Sites | PREHISTORY AND FRENCH VERMONT |
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At Chimney Point, you’ll be standing on a hill overlooking Lake Champlain where people have been taking in the view for 9,000 years! That’s 6,989 more years than the 2,011 that we've been keeping track of.
Native Americans were the first to occupy this important part of Lake Champlain. They regularly hunted and fished here. About 400 years ago Vermont's first white settlers – the French – built a fort in the exact same location. Later English and American settlers lived and worked here too.
This is the place to visit to learn about Vermont's Native American, French and early American heritage. You’ll also learn about archeology. Archeology tells us a lot of what we know about these first Vermonters and early settlers.
For more information: www.historicvermont.org/chimneypoint ; (802)759-2412
(Closed for the 2011 season due to the construction of the Champlain Bridge)
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| Calvin Coolidge Homestead, Plymouth | | Chester Arthur Birthplace, Fairfield | | Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford | | Chimney Point, Addison | | Hyde Log Cabin, Grand Isle | | Eureka Schoolhouse, Springfield | Bennington Battle
Monument, Bennington | | Vermont's Covered Bridges | | Old Constitution House, Windsor | | Mount Independence, Orwell | | Underwater Historic Preserves | | Hubbardton Battlefield, Hubbardton |
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