Description: Fort Nicholson: 1709, Fort Edward. This location was the Southern terminus of the "Great Carrying Place", a 11 mile route from the Hudson River to the forks of Wood Creek at Fort Anne leading to Lake Champlain. The British during Queen Anne's War erected a stockade in the area, only to be abandoned at the end of the war. Rebuilt as Fort Lydius 1732. Fort Edward, 1755, Great Carrying Place, Fort Nicholson, 1709; Fort Lydius, 1731; Fort Lyman, 1755