Published May 21, 2026, 4:17 PM EDT
Remains found at a New York construction site in 2019 were interred at a new memorial in Lake George Battlefield State Park.
The remains of 44 people believed to have been associated with the Continental Army were interred Wednesday at a new memorial in Lake George Battlefield State Park in upstate New York, 250 years after they likely died of smallpox at a military hospital on the southern shore of Lake George. A motorcade of nine Korean War and Vietnam-era military trucks reportedly carried the 44 wooden caskets 60 miles north from the New York State Museum in Albany to the park along Route 9 on May 20. Members of the NY-Penn Military Vehicle Collectors Club operated the trucks, with New York State Police leading the procession and Patriot Guard Riders providing a motorcycle escort. Four of the lead caskets were draped in flags, three with the Grand Union Flag, and a fourth had the flag of the 1st Pennsylvania Battalion—the only unit positively linked to the burial site through artifacts recovered with the remains. Construction workers digging an apartment building foundation on Courtland Street in the village of Lake George in February 2019 uncovered the remains. By the time the crew reported the discovery to the Warren County Sheriff's Office, they had already relocated roughly 70 dump truck piles of soil from the site.
