Lake George Battlefield Park Historic District

Lake George Battlefield Park Historic District covers 118 acres at the southern tip of Lake George, in Warren County, New York. New York State bought and developed the land between 1896 and 1965 to protect sites linked to the region's early military history and to give the public a place to recreate. The district includes the earthen and stone bastion of Fort George from 1759, surviving entrenchments from 1757 and 1758, foundations of barracks and a hospital, hut sites, a lime or brick kiln, and a submerged 1758 dock. Excavations in 2000 and 2001 recovered British ceramics, musket parts and regimental buttons, some tied to the Revolutionary War. The park also holds statues, plaques, markers and two mid-nineteenth-century farm buildings adapted for park use. Today it operates as public land with a beach, campground, picnic grounds and trails. The district contains 39 contributing resources.