Huletts Landing

New York’s Great Warpath & Historian Harrison Bird

September 14, 2026 by Anthony F. Hall Leave a Comment

Lake George, NY resident Harrison Bird (1910-2003) belonged to a rare class of historians, those whose situate the local within the continental and, indeed, the global.

In four books published by Oxford University Press – Navies in the Mountains (1962), March to Saratoga (1963), Battle for a Continent (1965) and Attack on Quebec (1968) – Bird wrote about Lake George, Lake Champlain, Fort Ticonderoga, Saratoga, Quebec and the northern waterways not as isolated historic sites, but as parts of one strategic corridor: the route by which empires, armies, navies and ambitions moved between Canada and the Hudson Valley. [Read more…] about New York’s Great Warpath & Historian Harrison Bird

X Marks the Spot: Piracy at Lake George, New York

December 16, 2024 by Joseph W. Zarzynski Leave a Comment

Piracy is the act of illegal violence or robbery at sea, or in this case, at the “Queen of American Lakes.”

The 32-mile-long Lake George may not be the Spanish Main (Spanish territory and waters in the Western Hemisphere ) of the 16th to 18th centuries, but over the years it has surprisingly had a few incidents of buccaneering. [Read more…] about X Marks the Spot: Piracy at Lake George, New York

A Search for Buried Pirate Treasure At Lake George

May 18, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

In his 1986 article “Treasure Seeking in the American Northeast, 1780-1830” for the American Quarterly historian Alan Taylor made the following observation:

“A canvas of travelers’ accounts, town histories, and other antiquarian sources for the American Northeast documents over forty incidents where groups of rural folk employed occult techniques to seek buried treasure, generally in very unlikely inland locales, and usually during the fifty years between 1780 and 1830. Most episodes involved small parties, handfuls of men bound to share equally in any discoveries. Tradition held that a minimum of three (a particularly magical number that occurs repeatedly in treasure lore) seekers was essential for a successful dig.” [Read more…] about A Search for Buried Pirate Treasure At Lake George

$150k For Lake George Land Conservation

June 10, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) has received a grant of $150,000 from the Helen V. Froehlich Foundation for watershed protection efforts, particularly in the Huletts Landing area on the east side of Lake George.

This is the 26th consecutive grant awarded to the LGLC from the Foundation, bringing their total giving to the LGLC more than $3.9 million for land and lake protection projects. [Read more…] about $150k For Lake George Land Conservation

Huletts Landing

We Need Your Help Now More Than Ever

New York Almanack receives no public funds.

It’s supported only by readers like you.

Please give today (a monthly recurring gift is best)