Mount Independence

Mount Independence
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)

Nearest city:	Orwell, Vermont
Built/Founded:	1776
Designated as NHL:	November 28, 1972
Added to NRHP:	September 03, 1971
NRHP Reference#:	71000079^[1]
Governing body:	State

Mount Independence is a 306 ft (93 m) high hill on the Vermont side of Lake Champlain, in the northeastern United States.

It is a Vermont State Historic Site and was the site of Fort Independence, an American revolutionary war fortification built opposite Fort Ticonderoga. Unfortunately both forts were dominated, militarily, by the higher Mount Defiance.

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^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).

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Landmark homes	Calvin Coolidge Homestead District \| Robert Frost Farm \| George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home \| Justin Smith Morrill Homestead \| Rudyard Kipling House \| Emma Willard House

Landmark commercial enterprises	Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop \| Shelburne Farms \| Ticonderoga (steamboat)

Military landmark	Mount Independence

Government and Political action landmarks	Rockingham Meeting House \| Socialist Labor Party Hall \| Rokeby, an underground railroad house \| Vermont State House

Scientific landmark	Stellafane Observatory

Round Church, Richmond \| St. Johnsbury Athenaeum