About Us
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 18th 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! Over the past few years, the Alliance has sponsored a dramatic expansion of its programs that has driven a surge in membership growth. Key milestones include:
- The opening in May 2022 of the Lake George Battlefield Park Visitor Center, a museum containing artifacts and exhibits that illustrate the site’s storied history.
- A series of public programs that feature award-winning historians and exclusive guided visits to important sites in the making of America, both on land and afloat our majestic lake.
- The creation of a weekly radio program and podcast, “Lake George Battlefield Moments”, broadcast on the Alliance’s own YouTube channel.
- The refurbishment in 2025 of the park’s three iconic bronze sculptures, works of art and history that date back to 1903.
- A commemoration in December 2025 of Henry Knox’s Noble Artillery Train on its 250th anniversary, including a re-enactment of his arrival by boat at the head of Lake George and community programs featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson.
- In May 2026, the reinterment of 44 Continental soldiers and associated personnel who perished in 1776 at the military hospital that was located in what is now Lake George Battlefield Park.