Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance

The Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance (“the Alliance”) was established in 2001 as a private, nonprofit education corporation chartered by the Board of Regents of the State University of New York, to support activities of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in the preservation and interpretation of the Lake George Battlefield Park.

The Alliance is a volunteer-driven organization comprising individuals from various regions of the United States and Canada who have an abiding interest in the Lake George region’s critical role in the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars. By walking the same paths as such important historic figures as Sir William Johnson, King Hendrick, the Marquis de Montcalm and Henry Knox, in full view of the magnificent lake that served as a key means to regional dominance in the 18^th century, we both derive appreciation for the extraordinary actions that were taken and help preserve important vestiges of the battlefield for posterity.

AND THE EXCITEMENT AT THE LAKE GEORGE BATTLEFIELD PARK IS GROWING! More than 120 years after the idea was first publicly aired to establish a museum at the Battlefield Park to display artifacts and exhibits that highlight its extraordinary history, our new Visitor Center opened to the public in May 2022. Trustees of the Alliance work closely with State DEC, the State Museum and the Lake George Park Commission to help assure our guests enjoy a memorable and safe experience. The extraordinary visitor experience of 2022 has been enhanced with several new exhibits in 2023. For more information, go to the Visitor Center tab.

Meanwhile, a committee organized by the Town of Lake George continues its collaboration with the State and interested local historical associations in defining an appropriate final resting place for the remains of 40+ Continental soldiers discovered in Lake George in February 2019. The deceased were smallpox victims, likely treated at the hospital located in 1776 in what is now the Battlefield Park. The Town committee is recommending those remains be reinterred in the Battlefield Park, most likely in 2024, following the completion of research by the State Museum.

Our Mission

To support the historic preservation, conservation, interpretation and associated appropriate maintenance, improvement and development of the Lake George Battlefield Park and its structures, including Fort George, as administered by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
To foster, encourage and promote an increased awareness, interest, appreciation and a deeper understanding of Lake George Battlefield Park and its significance to the history of the Lake Champlain/Lake George Corridor, the Adirondack Region, the State of New York, and the United States, Canada and Europe.
To conduct educational programs, services and activities in keeping with the historic nature of the Lake George Battlefield Park site, for its members and the public at large.
To support archaeological and historical research at the Lake George Battlefield Park.
To develop a volunteer initiative to support the Lake George Battlefield Park.
To conduct fund-raising activities including the solicitation, receiving and administration of grants, gifts, donations and other forms of financial support; to acquire, either by unrestricted gift or purchase, objects, equipment, supplies and other personal property and real property; to hold and convey interests in personal property and real property for the benefit of the Lake George Battlefield Park. All artifacts acquired for the benefit of the Park shall be conveyed to the State of New York.
And, to otherwise promote, preserve, conserve, interpret, maintain, improve, develop, secure and publicize the historic significance of Lake George Battlefield Park for the benefit of the local community, the general public, and posterity.

Our Park

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Art

"Mohawk Warrior", sculpted by Alexander Proctor, dedicated in the park in 1921 as a tribute to the Native Americans who first inhabited the region

Memorial to Henry Knox, who led the heroic transport in the winter of 1775-76 of 60 tons of cannon through these grounds en route to Boston to force the British evacuation of that city

Sir William Johnson and King Hendrick, dedicated in 1903 in tribute to the victorious leaders of the Battle of Lake George (1755)

Memorial over the burial site of four unknown Colonial soldiers killed in the Battle of Lake George (1755)

Ruins of Fort George, partially constructed by the British in 1758-59 as part of their defense against the French after Fort William Henry's destruction

St. Isaac Jogues, dedicated in 1939, who first viewed the lake in 1646 and named it Lac du Saint Sacrement (Lake of the Blessed Sacrament)