Crown Point is a town in Essex County, New York, United States, located on the west shore of Lake Champlain.

[2] The name of the town is a direct translation of the original French name, Pointe à la Chevelure.

[3] Two European forts were built by colonists because of the area's strategic location at the narrows of Lake Champlain.

With British victory in the war, after 1763 France ceded all its territory in North America east of the Mississippi River to Britain.

During colonial times and the American Revolutionary War, the fort at Crown Point continued to be important for its strategic location – on the west shore of Lake Champlain about 15 miles (24 km) north of Fort Ticonderoga, about a day's travel by the modes of that time.

During the British Saratoga campaign in 1777, General John Burgoyne organized a supply magazine here to support his Siege of Ticonderoga.

The modern European-American settlement of the town began around 1800 with an influx of settlers from Vermont.

[2] The eastern town line, defined by Lake Champlain, is the border of Vermont (Addison County).