FORT EDWARD, N. Y., colonial, on the upper Hudson at its great bend, where stands the present village of Fort Edward; known as the Great Carrying Place during the 17th and 18th centuries (that is, to Lake George and Lake Champlain), and an obvious advanced post for Canadian wars. Francis Nicholson built a stockade there for that purpose in 1709; it rotted away in disuse, but in 1755, at the, open ing of the French and Indian War, Phineas Lyman began another called by his name. It was completed by Colonel Eyre under Sir William Johnson, who after the battle of Lake George (q.v.) renamed it Fort Edward, after the Duke of York, grandson of George II. In 1757 it was raided, from Canada and 11 soldiers killed. Later the survivors of the massacre of Fort William Henry (q.v.) were sent here by Montcalm, and shortly afterward several thou sand militia flocked thither to the rescue, but had to be sent home on arriving too late. In March 1758 an expedition from there under Maj. Robert Rogers was nearly destroyed by the Indians. During this period Fort Edward was known to the French as `Fort Lidius' or °Lydius.* Jane McCrea (q.v.) was living in a little settlement near the fort, when she started on her ill-fated journey 27 July 1777 to meet her lover in Burgoyne's camp. After her death she was buried near the 'black house' at Fort Edward Centre. Her remains were removed
in 1823 or '24 to the old Fort Edward Ceme tery; in 1852 her remains were again exhumed and buried in the Union Cemetery between Fort Edward and Sandy Hill. The Jane McCrea Chapter, D. A. R., has erected a marker at Fort Edward near the spot where she was killed. In the Revolution the old fort was suc cessively the headquarters of Schuyler, Bur goyne, and Stark. Consult Parkman, 'Mont calm and Wolfe' (1884), Edward in 1779-80,' Historical Magazine,' 2d series, Vol. II(1867). Fort Edward village is located on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Champlain Canal and Hudson Valley Railway. Here through a system of locks the Glens Falls Feeder empties into the Champlain Canal. The manufacture of pulp and paper constitutes the principal industry of the village, and here are large mills of the International Paper Company Trust. It is noted as the home of the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, has a good union school system, a flourishing national bank, five churches and brewing, shirt-making and pot tery industries. Fort Edward possesses many points of interest to the antiquarian and his torian on account of its intimate connection with the events of the French and Indian and the Revolutionary Wars. Pop. 3,762.