{"id":240116,"date":"2026-05-22T01:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:37:18","slug":"revolutionary-war-soldiers-laid-to-rest-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240116\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary War soldiers laid to rest in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; The remains of Revolutionary War soldiers were transported to their final resting place in New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The remains of 44 people were found in 2019 during a construction project in Lake George.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They were taken to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nysm.nysed.gov\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nysm.nysed.gov\/\">New York State Museum<\/a>, where scientists spent years identifying them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Wednesday, the remains were moved from the museum with a dignified transfer of wooden caskets and taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/dec.ny.gov\/places\/lake-george-battlefield-day-use-area\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/dec.ny.gov\/places\/lake-george-battlefield-day-use-area\">Lake George Battlefield Park<\/a> for interment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Experts say the remains belonged to American soldiers and other personnel who likely died in 1776.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; The remains of Revolutionary War soldiers were transported to their final resting place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93837,65154,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,8646,44875,61121,1634,1235,1631],"class_list":["post-240116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buried","tag-lake-george","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-remains","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-soldiers","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}