
Champlain Valley Transportation Museum
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About Champlain Valley Transportation Museum
The Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh, New York, United States, founded in 2000 to be a museum dedicated to the history of Lozier Motors, has grown in scope to cover all the transportation in the region. It includes artifacts and displays on the history of land and water based transportation in the region, especially on Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence Seaway.
The museum was the idea of Anthony Vaccaro, a Plattsburgh physician, who owned and restored a 1915 Lozier. He saw a museum dedicated to Lozier Motors as a way of promoting Plattsburgh's rich history. Despite the museum's expanded scope, the Lozier remains its centerpiece. The museum's Type 82 Lozier is the only known Type 82 in existence.
The museum officially opened on the site of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base in 2004 with the help of a corps of volunteers. Its permanent collection includes two Lozier Automobiles. Also housed at the museum are the Bill Gates Diner (a cafe housed in a trolley car), a 1924 REO Speed Wagon used by Plattsburgh Motor Services' founder Walter Church, a 1929 Model A Ford and a 1967 Jaguar.
1903 Oldsmobile (Reproduction)
1910 National Speedster
1911 Kissell Kar Speedster
1914 Lozier 5 Passenger Touring
1915 Lozier 7 Passenger Touring
1915 Ford Model T Roadster
1917 Ford Model T Race Car
1918 Dodge Limousine
1923 Dodge 5 Passenger Touring
1924 REO Truck
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- 2000
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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 1.3 miles of Champlain Valley Transportation Museum; the closest, North Country Cultural Center, is about 1 mile away.



