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Lake George Battlefield Park Visitors Interpretive Center to open in August | The Daily Gazette
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The soon-to-open Lake George Battlefield Park Visitors Interpretive Center
would not have become a reality without the work of the late archaeologist David Starbuck, inset,
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LAKE GEORGE Most people who picnic in the peaceful state park near Million Dollar Beach have no idea of what happened there more than 250 years ago.
Major battles of the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War were fought on this land, now called Lake George Battlefield Park, and more than 1,000 soldiers died in a hospital on those grounds. There are some signs and statues, and one can see the stone ruins of a fort and other buildings, but it’s hard to imagine the lives of the military men and Native Americans who once walked here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/arts/design/Fort-William-Henry-soldiers-remains.html
Credit.Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times
They Died in the French and Indian War. Their Remains Await Reburial.
The bones of British soldiers and colonial militia were disinterred during a reconstruction of Fort William Henry nearly 70 years ago.
Credit.Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times
Dec. 18, 2020
At points over the past decade, disinterred human remains the full skeletons and fragmentary bones of British soldiers and colonial militia who died during the French and Indian War have been a cause of some concern in the environs of Lake George, N.Y.