Rogers Island in Fort Edward, New York, long known by several names including Great Island, Munro’s Island, Roger’s Island, and Freeman’s Island, has a varied history tied to travel, war, transportation, education, and recreation. It was a stopover for Native Americans at Wahcoloosenchaleva, or the Great Carrying Place, where travelers on the Hudson River had to leave their canoes and carry them overland. During the French and Indian War, the island faced Fort Edward and held many military buildings, a hospital, and a cemetery, and it was where Robert Rogers organized his famous Rangers unit, regarded as the birthplace of American Special Forces. Later, the island became the site of private homes, Civil War training and mustering grounds, railroad crossings into Fort Edward, and construction of barges by Holler, Davis and Flood for transporting war material during World War I, including cement barges represented in a Liberty Bond parade. In 1900 the Fort Edward Idle Hour Club was founded by businessmen seeking a weekend retreat, and after first being located at Crockers Reef near Fort Miller, it moved to Rogers Island in 1906, where a large building was constructed on the southern part of the island. Railroads including the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, the D&H, Canadian Pacific, and Amtrak crossed the island and played an important role in Fort Edward’s growth. The Island Grove School, a preparatory school on the northern end of Rogers Island, served students from about 1877 to 1881 while Fort Edward Collegiate Institute was rebuilding after a fire.