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Article: Lake Champlain turns 400
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- June 28, 2009
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STACEY MORRIS, Special to The Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem Post
06-28-2009
Headline: Lake Champlain turns 400
Byline: STACEY MORRIS, Special to The Jerusalem Post
Edition; Daily
Section: Features
Page: 07
Sunday, June 28, 2009 -- BURLINGTON, Vermont - Not many things in the United States can officially celebrate a 400th birthday, but the 100-mile Lake Champlain is about to embark on an official quadricentennial celebration in July. And because the lake, which stretches from the St. Lawrence Seaway in Canada past Vermont to northern New York is so vast, the milestone is being celebrated this summer and fall by Montreal, upstate New York, and Burlington, Vermont.
The lake was "discovered" in July of ...