Last Visited: November, 2002 As early as 1838 a naval officer
recommended erecting a lighthouse at Crown Point near the south
end of Lake Champlain. Fifteen years later the need was still
being noted "to enable vessels to pass with safety through the
dark narrow channel at Chimney Point". Finally, in 1858, the
recently created Lighthouse Board erected another "Sister" on a
seven-acre site at Crown Point near the historic ruins of Fort
St. Frederic and the British Grenadier Battery. This station was
similar to the two at the North end of the lake, an octagonal
tower of gray limestone block with an attached wood frame Cape
Cod cottage for the keeper. At a height of 55 feet, the fixed
white light in a fifth order lens stood 83 feet above the lake
and was visible for 15 miles. In 1910, the Champlain
Tercentenary Commission received permission from the new
Lighthouse Bureau to commemorate the great explorer by altering
the stone tower into a neoclassical memorial at a cost of
$50,000. The plain limestone exterior