Samuel Champlain

THIS MONUMENT WAS DEDICATED ON JULY 6, 1912
TO THE MEMORY OF 

SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN

FIRST EUROPEAN TO BEHOLD OUR GREAT FORESTS AND 
LOFTY MOUNTAINS, AND FIRST TO TRAVERSE THIS INLAND 
WATERWAY, WHICH LATER BECAME SO RIGHT IN FAME. 
CHAMPLAIN WAS BORN IN BROUAGE, FRANCE (1567) AND 
DIED IN QUEBEC CITY (1635), AS GOVERNOR OF 
"NEW FRANCE"

THIS PLAQUE WAS UNVEILED ON JULY 19, 1959, BY CITIZENS 
OF PLATTSBURGH, TO COMMEMORATE THE 350TH ANNIVERSARY 
OF THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN

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