Fort Ann is a town in Washington County, New York, United States.

[3][7] The town contains a village, also called Fort Ann, located in its southeastern corner.

[8] Fort Ann is located on the historic route linking the French and English colonies.

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, approximately one-half mile south of the present village, in 1709.

The 1777 Battle of Fort Anne took place here during the Saratoga Campaign of the American Revolutionary War.

Part of the town was in the Artillery Patent of 1764, granted to 24 officers of the British army.

Later the Delaware and Hudson Railway established a depot at Fort Ann village.

The shoreline of Lake George defines the Bolton-Fort Ann border.