New York State Route 347 (1930–1934)
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New York State Route 347 (1930–1934)
New York State Route 185 (NY 185) is an east–west state highway in Essex County, New York, in the United States. It serves as a connector between New York State Route 9N, NY 9N and New York State Route 22, NY 22 in Crown Point, New York, Crown Point and the Lake Champlain Bridge (2011), Lake Champlain Bridge, by which the highway enters Vermont and becomes Vermont Route 17 (VT 17). NY 185, named Bridge Road, passes through Crown Point State Historic Site and runs the entire length of Crown Point, a peninsula protruding into Lake Champlain. NY 185 was assigned on April 4, 2008, as a signed replacement for New York State Route 910L, an unsigned reference route (New York), reference route. It is the third signed designation that Bridge Road has carried, preceded by New York State Route 347 (during the early 1930s) and New York State Route 8, NY 8 (1930s to the 1960s). NY 185 originally connected to the Lake Champlai ...
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Crown Point, New York
Crown Point is a town in Essex County, New York, United States, located on the west shore of Lake Champlain. The population was 2,024 at the 2010 census. The name of the town is a direct translation of the original French name, . The town is on the eastern edge of Essex County. It is southwest of Burlington, Vermont, northeast of Queensbury, south of Montreal, Quebec and north of Albany. History Two European forts were built by colonists because of the area's strategic location at the narrows of Lake Champlain. The forts preceded organization of the town by more than half a century: first was Fort Saint-Frédéric built by the French in 1731, who came to this area from their colonial settlements to the north at Quebec and Montreal. They competed with the British for the fur trade with Native Americans in the area. During the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in North America), the British gained control of this area. Before that, the French retreated ...
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