FORT EDWARD, a village of Washington county, New York, U.S.A., on the Hudson river and the Champlain Barge canal, 55m. N. of Albany. It is served by the Delaware and Hudson railway. The population was 3,85o in 1930. The Indians called this "The Great Carrying Place," as it was the starting point of their usual portage between the Hudson and Lake Champlain. A stockade was built in 1709 by Governor Francis Nicholson on his way to Canada, and some years later a settlement was established by John Henry Lydius and protected by a new fort, which was destroyed by the French and Indians in 1745. A third fort was built in 1755, as a preliminary to the expedition against Crown Point under General William Johnson, who named it Ft. Edward, in honour of the duke of York. During the Revolution it was the headquarters of General Schuyler while he was blocking the march of General Burgoyne from Ft. Ticonderoga, and the region was the scene of many episodes of the war. The village was incorporated in 1852.