Sometimes historical markers can be maddeningly vague. This marker from West Glenville Road in Glenville, NY, describes “A Former Lake – Just north of these gravel knolls is the basin of a postglacial lake. Here men of an Arctic type once lived and hunted.”
So we’re commemorating what exactly? A former lake we can’t see from this marker, where at some vague time in history men (yes, only men) of a type never before mentioned lived and hunted.
As historical markers go, it’s no “George Washington Slept Here.”