LAKE GEORGE - The French and Indian War battle won here by green
Colonial troops is just a footnote in most history books, but the way
Randy Patten sees it, the New England farmers who fell during an
ambush that opened the fighting didn't need to be buried a second
time, 250 years later.

In the 1990s, a businessman was granted permission by the town of Lake
George to fill in his vacant, sloping property. The land borders the
wooded ravine where about 1,000 British Colonial troops and 200 of
their Mohawk Indian allies were ambushed by a larger force of French
and Indians on the morning of Sept. 8, 1755.

The ravine was part of the route for a wilderness road traveled by
such 18th-century figures as Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, Benjamin
Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

"This (businessman) is dumping on historical ground, or what's left of
it, anyway," said Patten, a 61-year-old retired state police
investigator and former member of the New York commission that
promoted the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War from 2005
through 2010.

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-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library