On Wednesday, May 20, a motorcade of New York State Police, Korean and Vietnam War-era military trucks, and members of the New York Patriot Guard Riders will escort the skeletal remains of Revolutionary War patriots from the New York State Museum in Albany to their final resting spot in Lake George Battlefield Park. The mile-long convoy will travel along State Route 9, passing through more than a dozen communities in Albany, Saratoga, and Warren Counties, ending at the “Repose of the Fallen” memorial on Fort George Road.
The remains were discovered in February 2019 by a construction crew excavating for a project on Courtland Street in Lake George Village. The remains have been held at the State Museum for the past seven years, where researchers have concluded they were patients at the 1776 smallpox hospital in Fort George at the head of Lake George.
At approximately 10 a.m. on May 20, following the dignified transfer of the pine caskets to three vehicles, the procession will begin its journey. It will pass through downtown Albany, Colonie, Latham; the Saratoga County towns of Halfmoon, Clifton Park, the Village of Round Lake, Malta and Saratoga Springs. The procession will pause in Saratoga Springs for a brief patriotic observance in front of City Hall at 474 Broadway…