The archaeological project at war for more than 250 years, the British and French empires were the focal point of the park is rich in artifacts returned to the State of New York state.
Built by a team of students and volunteers of the British colonial American troops have been deployed in the Adirondack Mountains and the mountain in another building a stone wall along the lower edge of the Lake George Park, fighting the French and Indian War, 1754-1763, to determine whether the time being discovered around Fighting is trying to Canadian French, which was held in New York in Britain is different in the northern border province raged.
Stacked rocks overlooking the southern end of Lake George overgrown 35-acre park on the edge of the line located in the woods, it's easy to miss. It did not know the bike and the open road bicycle along the road leading to zip past the park are the latest strolling.
"Most of the people walk more, and you do not notice," Doug Schmidt, a state forest guards near the State University of New York, under the auspices of Adirondack Archaeological Field School for six weeks, he retired as a crew chief.
Schmidt in nearly four dozen people in search of evidence of this tourist city and bloody past, respectively, in the second section of the park to spend the summer break. US forces fighting the land where the park is a French colony, and the Indians in 1755, as well as in nearby Fort William Henry caught after two years along with the senior British camp site.
Last summer, and back in uniform buttons, musket balls and feed soldiers with piles of animal bones of slaughtered animals that period, dating of artifacts as a result of the drilling carried out in the garden for the first time in 13 years.
While searching for artifacts pressure this Thursday, July 23, 2015 photo, Thompson evade the ground ...
David starbucks, 20 years in the 18th century on the site for more than a professor of anthropology who led the army to dig, the project built just east of Fort William Henry in 1755 to fight high, occupies a vast camp in the footsteps of the well-known groups have been discussed.
It was a "well-established camp," said the British troops and colonial novels of James Fenimore Cooper's back at a later date, resulting in dozens of deaths in the genocide blockade on the column last week of August 1757, after the surrender of the fortress of the American Indian allies of France's standing start to retire, "Mohicans The last ".
While digging a stone wall, mortar team in the mountains near Starbuck thought to have been exposed to the oven. Starbucks around the wall, he found a small number of artifacts, but will help you estimate its construction date has yet been found that some said.
Nearby, Schmidt King George II, King of England, named after the large British firm that was supposed to be the remnants of a stone wall built in the middle of the excavator to publish the project oversees the experience.
After the fall of Quebec, when work stopped with the end of the war, only it, from one corner of the vaccine in 1759, has been completed. During the Revolutionary War, the fort was used again, but after that it was abandoned. Lake George settled in 1800, and it served as the first as a tourist attraction.