which is the only business place in the town, will be described in another part of this work. where it affords all necessary milling privileges. Wood Creek, the largest stream that passes through this town, runs in a northerly direction through Fort Ann, and empties into Lake Champlain at Whitehall VILLAGE. The soil is principally stiff clay, well adapted to grass. The town and large tracts adjoining it were embraced in the grant. It derived its name from Major Skeene, who held a grant of land from England. This town, bearing the name of Skeneesborough, was organized in 1778. to Saratoga Springs, Troy, Albany, and Schenectady, and the great routes of travel centring at these places. There is also a continuous line of railroad communication N., via Rutland, Middlebury, and Burlington, to Montreal, E. John’s, in Canada, 150 miles distant, whence there is steam communication direct to Montreal. Some of the finest steamboats on any of our waters ply between this place and St. This place was occupied by Burgoyne as his head-quarters, for a considerable time, and on the heights overlooking the harbor are the remains of a battery and blockhouse erected by him. The place is located in a romantic situation, at the mouth of a river called Wood Creek, which descends through a rocky ravine, and over a fall of about 20 feet, into the lake, the village is compactly built between the bold and lofty cliffs which overlook the town, and consists of about 150 houses a number of mills, for which the river furnishes a fine water power numerous warehouses for the forwarding and commission business several churches, and other public buildings. This place derives its importance from its peculiarly favorable situation for business, at the junction of the Champlain Canal, from Albany and Troy, with the lake, and from its being a thoroughfare of travel on the great route between New York and Canada.
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