Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-05
OLD tt WANTS MEMORIAL
Boom to Place Monument on
Mount Defiance.
Advocates For This Point Claim n T.,
Most Appropriate--To Make 7,
In the Form Of Light
house.
(From the plattsburgh Press

| VI 'he many places that have
been suggested for tho champlain
memorial Ticonderoga seems to he
| rapidly gaming some popularity
among large number of people In
tho northern part of the state. OF
course the movement in favor of II
conderoga started in the village It.
self, but there are many others who
realize the advantages Of the loca-
ton. The place at Ticonderoga that
is being pushed for the site of the
memorial is Mount efance. where
it is said that the monument could
form lighthouse.
| w. A. T.. Cummings. whose home
is at Ticondcrgoa. and who is taking
an active part in pushing the viii
lagos claims. declares that light
house on the memorial acre at Mount
Defiance would light up the most
difficult part Of Lake Champlain and
what will be, when the barge canal
IL finished. the part most used by
craft of any portion Of It's waters. He
said that it would light up the lower
end of Lake George and the upper
end OF the Ticonderoga river, which
ia alive with small steamers and
! Launches every night.
"As President Taft so happily ex-
pressed It In his address at Ticonder-
oga," said Mr.. Cummings. IT is the
one spot In the valley whore tho
state OF Vermont and the State Of
New York. as well as the nations
joining with US in this celebration.
can meet with entire consistency and
celebrate with great jovousness the
| vital events here enacted in which
the struggles OF these different ma
| tons and states were So closely In
| terwoven as to make II Impossible to
| say Of any ono event. this Is the
history of this or that nation for it
belongs in eminent degree to all.
1T was at Ticondcroga that Cham
plains famous and far reaching bat
tie with tho 1roduoia took place. &C
| cording 20 that great explorers own
testimony. and to the dictum OF the
great majority of the mans compe
tent historians. II was also there that
It occurred according to tho mastery
presentation OF the subject by Senn
tor Root at Platsburgt and last
but by no means least, by the sense
Of the meeting as taken by Seth
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