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Rouses Point was the main point of entry for bootleggers who traveled along the so-called Rum Trail which was Route 9 between St. Jean in Canada and Plattsburgh, New York. At the time Prohibition was repealed, the Rouses Point-Overton Corner border inspection station had been in operation for a year.
The Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad was founded in 1849 as the Northern Railroad running from Ogdensburg to Rouses Point, New York. The 118-mile (190 km) railroad was leased by rival Central Vermont Railroad for several decades, ending in 1896. It was purchased in 1901 by the Rutland Railroad and became its Ogdensburg Division.
Champlain is a town in Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 5,754 at the 2010 census. [2] The town is located on the western shore of Lake Champlain, near the northern end of Lake Champlain and is on the U.S./Canadian border. The town occupies the northeastern corner of Clinton County and the state of New York.
WCHP (760 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format branded as WCHP 760 AM. Licensed to Champlain, New York, United States, the station directs its daytime signal into nearby Montreal, Quebec, Canada, effectively being a border blaster. At night, the station broadcasts at a considerably lower power, to protect WJR in Detroit.
This crossing is open 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. [3] It is sometimes locally referred to as the Blackpool Border Crossing, [4] [5] referring to the town on the Canadian side of the border. A previous crossing on U.S. Route 9 had its own terminus on Meridian Road, also in Champlain. [6]
Following a 2006 grant that helped establish the museum, [8] in 2007, the museum received a $1 million grant from the New York State Department of Transportation to assist in the upgrade of the museum's infrastructure. The museum is required to raise $200,000 in order to receive the grant and in January 2008 it began a capital campaign to ...
Trains take approximately 11 hours to travel the 381-mile (613 km) route. Canadian track maintenance issues led to the suspension of the Adirondack from June to September in 2023 and 2024. Operation of the Adirondack is supported by the New York State Department of Transportation and Via Rail.
The US Border Inspection Station at Rouses Point occupies an 81-acre site on the west side of St. John's Highway, New York Route 9B, at the Canada–US border. Facing east, the building is set in an area of open fields with a few light industrial buildings to the east. The site is level around the building, but slopes away gradually on the west ...