CROWN POINT, a village of Essex county, New York, U.S.A., in a township of the same name, about 9om. N.E. of Albany and about lam. N. of Ticonderoga, on the west shore of Lake Champlain. The population of the township in 1920 was 1,413 ; in 1930, U.S. census, 1,468. Among the manufactures are lumber and woodenware. Graphite has been found in the western part of the township, and spar is mined. In 1609 Champlain fought the Iroquois Indians here and began the enmity between the Five (later Six) Nations and the French. Subsequently Dutch and English traders trafficked in the vicinity. Realizing the town's strategic importance, the French in 1731 built Fort Frederic, the first military post at Crown Point. Despite English and colonial expeditions sent against it, Crown Point remained in French hands until 1759. Crown Point was then occupied by Lord Jeffrey Am herst, who began the construction, near old Fort Frederic, of a large fort, which was garrisoned but was never completed. At the outbreak of the War of Independence the fort was captured by Col. Seth Warner and a force of "Green Mountain Boys," and it remained in American hands save for a brief period in 1777, when it was occupied by a detachment of Burgoyne's invading army.