Author: Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-12

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780364393567

Excerpt from The Tercentenary Celebration of the Discovery of Lake Champlain and Vermont: A Report to the General Assembly of the State of Vermont One of the abiding results of this celebration will be a noble and artistic monument to Samuel Champlain in the form of a light tower to be erected by the States of Vermont and New York at Crown Point, N. Y. Your commission set aside half of its appropriation of for a per manent memorial and it will be able to contribute more than to this fund. Owing to the fact that the State of New York has set aside for this memorial a sum considerably larger than Vermont can furnish, and realizing the peculiar fitness of choosing a site so abundantly rich in his toric associations, 3 point where the territory of the two States is separated only the distance of a stone's throw, your commission voted for this loca tion, being firmly convinced that present and future generations would apprbve the erection of a joint memorial that was adequate, although on New York soil, rather than the raising ofa small and inadequate memorial in Vermont territory that would suffer by comparison for all time with the monument on the opposite shore of the lake. Thus the fame of the great explorer, Champlain, will be perpetuated and our children's children will be reminded of the courage and the devotion of the famous pioneer of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.