In 1926, the U.S. government sold Fort Montgomery along with the adjacent military reservation at public auction.
During the period of disuse which followed, as had also happened with the abandoned 1816 fortification on the site, many locals visited the fort and carted off untold ammounts of wood, bricks, windows and doors for use in their homes and other buildings.
Ultimately, most of the fort, aside from the gutted western facing officers' quarters, a small portion of the southern wall and three bastions (two of which remain today), was demolished in 1936-1937.
It's massive stones were crushed into the lake for fill to construct the nearby bridge between Rouses Point, New York, and Alburg, Vermont.
The property had a number of private owners before it was sold in 1983 to Victor Podd, Sr. who constructed the headquarters of te Powertex Corporation on the adjacent "Commons" to the west of the fort. Island Point, the actual fort site, was left untouched.
--Brock-Perry
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