popular name of " Half-Way Brook," bestowed upon it we know not by whom nor when, but which appearing in contemporary diaries, documents, letters and official despatches of " The Seven Years War," has ever since clung to it, and will while its waters run to the sea/ It will be remembered that in the Campaign of 1755, Sir William Joiinson had constructed a corduroy road from Fort Edward to Lake George, following substantially the present highway between the two points. 'Cut through the dark and gloomy virgin forest, with its overhang of interlaced pine and evergreen boughs, its thickets of dense underbrush, the road led through swamps, over rivulets, over sandy knolls, and primal rocky hills to the head of the lake. On every side was leafy covert or rugged eminence, suitable for ambuscade or hiding-place of savage foe, or hardly less savage Canadian or French regular. Every rod of ground on this road is stained with the blood of the English, the Colonists, and their Indian allies, or that of their fierce, implacable enemies. Hardly a mile but what has its story of massacre, surprise, murder, deeds of daring and heroism, or of duty performed under horrible and heartrending circumstances. In order to protect the road, as well as afford a resting place for soldiers and teamsters, and to supply a needed depot for military stores and provisions, the late Dr. A. W. Holden* in his History of Queensbury, says : " At an early period in the French War, a block house and stockaded enclosure, in which were also several store houses, had been erected at the Half- Way Brook. The date of its construction would seem to have been in 1755, ior in that year the French scouts and runners, reported to their chief that the English had erected posts every two leagues from the head of Lake George to Albany.