Fort Ann is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 6,417 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from Queen Anne, and directly from a community in the town.
The town of Fort Ann contains a village, also called Fort Ann, located in its southeast corner.
Fort Ann is located on the historic route linking the French and English colonies.
The area was the site of several forts built by various nations, from a small French fort called “The Pickets” near the south end of Lake Champlain in 1689, in the northwest area of the town, to a series of forts (including “Fort Schuyler” and “Queen’s Fort’) closer to where the village of Fort Ann stands today. The first of these was likely the Stone Fort, built by Englishman Fitz John Winthrop in 1692. The English expedition led by Francis Nicholson built Fort Schuyler, about a half-mile south of the present village, in 1709. (The old Champlain…
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