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. It wias situated on the north side of the brook, and to the west of the plank road leading to the head of Lake George. The old military road led across the brook about four rods above the present crossing. A part of the old abut- 'C. Johnson's History of Washington County (pub. Phila., 1878) states that the " Half-Way Brook " was also known as " Clear River " -- p. 301. The U. S. Geological Survey, in its map of this section of New York State, published about 1895, has labeled the brook as " Half- Way Creek," which, while it may be technically correct, will never be recognized in local usage or by faithful historians. "The Historian of the Town of Queensbury, N. Y.

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merits, timbers and causeway were visible up to the late seventies. It was capable of accommodating upwards of eight hundred men, and was protected by redoubts, rifle pits, earthworks, and a palisade of hewn timbers." The walls of the fort were pierced for cannon as well as for rifles, or muskets. In passing it may be said that from time to time, this, like all similar frontier forts of the time, was enlarged, strengthened, abandoned, destroyed, rebuilt, as the exigencies of military service made it necessary, but the site remained tihe same.