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Waterways to War:
Chimney Point State Historic Site
7305 VT Route 125
Addison, VT 05491
(802) 759-2412
www.HistoricVermont.org/chimneypoint
Open Wednesdays through Sundays, and Monday holidays, Memorial Day weekend through Columbus Day, 9:30 to 5:00
Chimney Point, located on a strategic point at the southern end of Lake Champlain, is one of the earliest and mostly intensely settled spots on the lake with human habitation going back 7,500 years ago after the glaciers receded. From the first European contact--Samuel de Champlain’s travels here in 1609—to the American Revolution, this has been a place of world history. It was the site of a British and Dutch military outpost in 1690, a French fort in 1731, French settlement on a military frontier from the 1740s until 1759 when the English arrived, English and American settlement, military use in the Revolution, and a c.1785 tavern, the home of the current museum. The site’s mission is to interpret and present the history of the three early cultures in the region—the Native American, French colonial, and early American, using archeology, contemporary arts and traditions kept alive, programming, and the actual historic place.