Editing Battle of Valcour Island (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:GunboatPhiladelphia.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[USS Philadelphia (1776)|Philadelphia]]'' was raised in 1935. It is on display at the [[National Museum of American History]]|alt=The ship is shown in a museum installation, mounted on a wooden framework. The ship's woodwork has been discolored, and the ship sports a short mast, a single cannon facing forward near the bow, and two cannons facing port and starboard respectively near the stern.]]

In the 1930s, Lorenzo Hagglund, a veteran of [[World War I]] and a history buff, began searching the strait for remains of the battle. In 1932 he found the remains of ''Royal Savage''{{'}}s hull, which he successfully raised in 1934.<ref name=Bratten75>[[#Bratten|Bratten (2002)]], p. 75</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uN4DAAAAMBAJ&dq=Popular+Science+1933+plane+%22Popular+Mechanics%22&pg=PA803  "Arnold's Flagship Raised On Old Tar Drums"] ''Popular Mechanics'', June 1935</ref> Stored for more than fifty years, the remains were sold by his son to the [[National Civil War Museum]].<ref name=Bratten76>[[#Bratten|Bratten (2002)]], p. 76</ref><ref name=WHTM/> As of March 2009, the remains were in a city garage in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]. The city of [[Plattsburgh, New York]], has claimed ownership of the remains and would like them returned to upstate New York.<ref name=WHTM>[[#WHTM|"War Ship Remains Piled in City Garage"]]</ref>

In 1935, Hagglund followed up his discovery of ''Royal Savage'' with the discovery of ''Philadelphia''{{'}}s remains, sitting upright on the lake bottom.<ref name=Bratten77>[[#Bratten|Bratten (2002)]], p. 77</ref> He raised her that year; she is now on display at the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[National Museum of American History]] in Washington, D.C.,<ref name="Miller175"/> and is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] and is designated a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="nris"/><ref name="nhlsumPhil">[[#nhlsumPhil|NHL Description of USS Philadelphia]]</ref>  The site of the battle, [[Valcour Bay]], was declared a National Historic Landmark on January 1, 1961, and added to the National Register on October 15, 1966. A small stone monument commemorating the battle sits on the mainland along [[U.S. Route 9]] overlooking Valcour Island.<ref name="nris">[[National Register Information System]]</ref><ref name="nhlsumBay">[[#nhlsumBay|NHL Description of Valcour Bay]]</ref>

In 1997, another pristine underwater wreck was located during a survey by the [[Lake Champlain Maritime Museum]]. Two years later it was conclusively identified as the gundalow ''[[USS Spitfire (1776 gunboat)|Spitfire]]''; this site was listed on the National Register in 2008, and it has been named as part of the U.S. government's [[Save America's Treasures]] program.<ref name=LCMM_Spitfire>[[#LCMM Spitfire|Shipwrecks of Lake Champlain: Gunboat Spitfire]]</ref>