Thousand Islands Life, Historic Shipwrecks of the Thousand Islands Volume 20, Issue 2, February 2025
This article was written originally as a paper presented in 2019 at Portsmouth, England, at The Nautical Archaeology Society and the Ordnance Society co-hosting conference, examining how ship and ordnance remains found on land and under the sea help us understand our maritime past. It is the story of the iron guns found at Carleton Island and Niagara Shoal.
Haldimand by Chip Stevens
"Carleton Island has some mystery about it. When James H. Durham decided to take on uncovering the true origin of The Old Fort in 1889, he was diving into a not so clear path of discovering the easy answer.The island had several names, Buck, Deere, Isle aux Chevreuils and Carleton Island. I purchased the book titled, The Old Fort Carleton Island In The Revolution, written by James H. Durham in 1889. It was reintroduced and reprinted by the St. Lawrence River Historical Foundation in 2010."
SRHF donates design and artwork for replacement Carleton Island informational panel is East End Park, Cape Vincent NY
During a visit to Cape Vincent's East End Park this summer, Dennis & Kathi McCarthy observed that the Seaway Trail informational panel for Carleton Island was deteriorated and not readable. They advised Cape Vincent Village Mayor Jerry Golden about the condition of the panel. Aware that a replacement is no longer available from Seaway Trails Inc. Dennis & Kathi McCarthy, directors of St Lawrence River Historical Foundation, offered an updated replacement design for a new informational panel as a replacement. Mayor Golden presented the proposal at the Cape Village meeting in July. The village board approved the new panel purchase using the artwork.
The new Carleton Island information panel has been mounted and can be seen in East End Park.
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LIDAR Image of Fort Haldimand, section circled in white shows about
400 feet of undisturbed outer earthworks.
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