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Macdonough Shipyard

Addison County · MacDonough Drive, west of Comfort Hill Street, Vergennes

Below the Otter Creek Falls was the site of Thomas Macdonough's shipyard, where the U.S.S. Saratoga was built in 40 days and other ships launched that defeated the British at the Battle of Plattsburgh, 1814.

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

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