Port Henry

It was indeed.

An additional Ticonderoga, not much further up the road, 9N is Crown Point and Port Henry.

They have their own unique historical significance as well, so don't think that someone has to make Ticonderoga their destination, but certainly there's more to see and do in that general vicinity than simply going to a fort.

And it's right on Lake Champlain.

Now, I'm calling Peter worked numbers on this height and weight, but maybe, I mean, that's certainly, by 1861 standards, that is a Andre the Giant-sized figure for back then.

Six-foot-five, 320-pound Peter, English in Port Henry, New York, winning two of three falls in 18 minutes, or so the story goes.

Finding contemporary newspaper reports of that one was a little bit difficult.

Now, a little bit more about Harry Hill and John McMahon.

Ezra Titus was also involved.

The Rutland newspaper repeatedly referred to John McMahon as the champion, but never specified what title he was claiming.

Now, just a few days later, March 26, 1874, Port Henry, Vermont, Union Hall, the John McMahon-Homer Lane combination holds another exhibition series of matches, and this time the winners are John McMahon, of course, Hugh O. Fitzpatrick, Homer Lane, and William Smith.

The paper states, the rules of the tournament of 1870 in Detroit were followed, because, of course, that was the standard back then.

Now, side note, researchers today believe that they were all talking about a large species of fish that we now call the alligator gar.

But the notion of an actual lake monster came about in the early 1800s when a guy who called himself Captain Crumb told a local newspaper that he saw a 200-foot-long sea serpent while sailing on the lake near Port Henry, New York.

He said it had a big white star on its head and a red ring around its neck.

Since then, there've been hundreds of reported sightings of a similarly massive creature around the lake in New York and Vermont.

Reports of a long-necked, silver-scaled serpent surfacing briefly and then disappearing into the depths.

A famous photo from the 1970s seems to capture that long-necked creature on the lake.

The Wee Hamlet of Port Henry has become known as Champ's official home.

They have a giant board in town that lists hundreds of these alleged sightings.

You know, he used to shoot these movies with a Super 8 camera in the 70s and 80s with a lot of his close friends.

and when I was little, he still had that camera, and we would just kind of shoot all around Port Henry, Ticonderoga, all the kind of local towns, and we would make these five-minute horror movies.

Vampire Virus was one.

Haunted Dreams was another.

And you can, for those adventuresome enough, and again, I'm going to... say i'm not encouraging anyone to do but it's not hard to get into the property that's privately owned and you would therefore be trespassing but you should not do this but perhaps you were to do it you might find some very interesting old building structures and and it supposedly again it's never happened to me there are voices and eerie sensations people feel just by seeing it.

For me, it's, it's purely the historical element of it because it links the, um, town of Port Henry and the, how they, the, the iron ore was moved down to Lake Champlain and then transported down the, uh, the Champlain canal.

And I

find really interesting, but anyway,