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Fort Saint Frederic Traditional Cache

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Sara-Cap NYS Parks: Thank you very much for participating in the 2013 NYS Parks Saratoga-Capital District Region Geocache Challenge! Please look for the 3rd Annual Challenge to start in May 2014. Please join us on Saturday, November 16, 2013 at the Peebles Island State Park Visitor Center located in Watervliet, NY, at 9:30am for "Geocaching in State Parks, Wrapping Up the 2013 Geocache Challenge" event. For more details, this event will be listed on www.nysparks.com, www.geocaching.com and on individual Saratoga-Capital District Region Parks websites. At this event the grand prize drawing will be conducted. We hope you can join us for this exciting program to conclude another successful Challenge!
*All remaining travel bugs/coins/geokrets will be moved to active caches and will be posted accordingly.
Thanks again for participating!

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Hidden : 5/16/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is placed as part of the New York State Park Saratoga/Capital District Region Geocache Challenge. 

There are 50 geocaches hidden within 16 state parks and state historic sites in the Saratoga/Capital District region, and geocachers finding them all will be eligible to enter their names in a drawing for valuable prizes.  If you are interested in taking up the challenge, you can pick up a geocache passport at any of the participating parks and sites, or download the passport at www.nysparks.com.
 

Crown Point (Fort Saint-Frédéric) fut d’une importance capitale au 17ème et 18ème siècle.  Dès la venue de Samuel de Champlain en 1609, jusqu’en 1759, le Lac Champlain fut sous pavillon francais.  Après les attaques contre Lachine et Montréal, le roi de France envoya au Canada le regiment de Carignan-Salières qui se mit à construire une chaine du forts, parmi lesquels ceux de Richelieu, Chambly, St. Jean.  En 1734, les Franco-Canadiens constuisirent un autre fort, tout en pierre, situé à la Pointe a la Chevelure, celui de St. Frédéric.  De suite les alentours se peuplèrent, et jusqu’à la pousée anglaise vers le nord le village de St. Frédéric fut florissant.  C’était un bastion anvancé de la culture Franco-Canadienne sur Lac Champlain.

Park in the museum parking lot!  Enjoy!

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