On Feb. 7, 2019, while excavating for a housing development to be built on Courtland Street in Lake George village, numerous unmarked military graves were unearthed and destroyed. The exposed human remains were reported.
This was the beginning of a multi-year effort by Lisa Anderson, curator of Bioarchaeology at the New York State Museum, and archaeologist Charles Vandrei of the Department of Environmental Conservation to recover and analyze these Revolutionary War remains in advance of their planned reinterment at Lake George Battlefield Park.
Going back 250 years, America’s first major offensive operation of the war, the invasion of Canada, was underway. It was a disaster…