Lake George Colonial Wars Walking Tour Stop 18: Battlefield Park Visitor Interpretive Center
The Battlefield Park Visitor Interpretive Center displays artifacts, models, and historical illustrations that document Battlefield Park's long history. The Visitor Center also catalogues the habitation period of indigenous peoples, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and subsequent centuries.
When one visits the Center, they'll be see a variety of exhibits that include color panels that explain the chronological history of the park, models of the 1759 stockaded fort, Fort George, and the 1758 radeau Land Tortoise. In the Center, a gunport lid from the vessel, a photomosaic (underwater photograph), and a documentary film about the Land Tortoise are exhibited as well.
Artifacts and a model of the wreckage of one of the armed 1756 sloops built at Lake George give a visual of the history of Lake George. Visitors can also view a drawing of the 1759 stockaded fort, a large painting of the 1759 Fort George complex, and a reproduction uniform on a military mannequin of a First Pennsylvania Battalion soldier who was stationed at Fort George and died from smallpox in the 1776 hospital.
Continue the Walking Tour to Stop 19: Father Jogues
This "Colonial Wars" guide that Mannix Marketing has adapted for lakegeorge.com, with the Alliance's OK, is attributed to Bateaux Below, Inc.
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TOUR WRITTEN BY: Dr. Russell P. Bellico, Bob Benway, Tim Cordell, John Farrell, Scott Padeni and Joseph W. Zarzynski
ART BY: Tim Cordell
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Bob Benway
©1996, 2022 Bateaux Below, Inc. Reprinted 2022 with the permission of Bateaux Below, Inc. Historical updates provided by Dr. Russell P. Bellico and Dr. Lyn Karig Hohmann The reproduction of this brochure has been made possible by an Occupancy Tax Grant award from the Town of Lake George.
Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance PO Box 26, Lake George, NY 12845 www.lakegeorgebattlefield.org
SUGGESTED READING LIST:
Bellico, Russell P. - Chronicles of Lake George - Journeys in War and Peace. Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY, 1995.
Bellico, Russell P. - Sails and Steam in the Mountains – A Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain. Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY, 2001.
Bellico, Russell P. - Empires in the Mountains - French and Indian War Campaigns and Forts in the Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Hudson River Corridor. Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY 2010.
Griffith IV, William R. - The Battle of Lake George - England’s First Triumph in the French and Indian War. History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2016
Steele, Ian K. - Betrayals – Fort William Henry & The “Massacre.” Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1990.
Zarzynski, Joseph W. - Ghost Fleet Awakened - Lake George’s Sunken Bateaux of 1758. State University of New York, Albany, NY, 2019.
