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Daily Visitation: May 4-Oct. 27, 2024 | Tues-Sun | 9:30am-5pm
Experience the blend of history and natural beauty like nowhere else when you visit Fort Ticonderoga! Explore 2000 acres of America’s most historic landscape located on the shores of Lake Champlain and nestled between New York’s Adirondack and Vermont’s Green Mountains. Create lasting memories as you embark on an adventure that spans centuries, defined a continent, and helped forge a nation.
EXPLORE THE 6-ACRE HEROIC CORN MAZE!
Share time with family and friends while exploring a unique corn maze located on the shores of Lake Champlain at Fort Ticonderoga, with a NEW DESIGN for 2024! Getting lost in this life-size puzzle is part of the fun as you look for history clues among towering stalks of corn! Find clues connected to our story as you navigate the maze!
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October
15
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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October
19
Girl Scout Day
Scouts will participate in interactive and immersive programs, and explore the historic site, including the King’s Garden, Carillon Battlefield Hiking Trail, and the Heroic Corn Maze with a new 2024 design! Special guided tours and demonstrations will immerse scouts and adults in Fort Ticonderoga’s layer of epic history. The visit will include historic trades’ shops, […]
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October
19
Bon Voyage Cruise on Lake Champlain
Join Fort Ticonderoga for its annual Bon Voyage Cruise on Lake Champlain! Savor the fall scenic beauty and enjoy the captivating narration of historic highlights aboard the 60 ft Carillon tour boat. Enjoy the spectacular fall foliage aboard the Carillon on its final cruise as it charts its course south for the winter. Discover the […]
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October
20
Virtual Author Series featuring Michael E. Shay
The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In The Whites of Their Eyes: The Life of Revolutionary War Hero Israel Putnam from Rogers’ Rangers to Bunker Hill, author Michael Shay recounts the life and times of Israel Putnam, a larger-than-life general, a gregarious tavern keeper and […]
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November
3
Virtual Author Series featuring John William Nelson
The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent, author John William Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago’s portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous […]
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November
9
Living History Event: “The Enemy Are Refortifying Ticonderoga”
This living history event explores British and American loyalist soldiers launching one last campaign to Ticonderoga in the fall of 1781. Highlighted programming throughout the day features the encampment of soldiers, sailors, and their eventual departure back north. Discover the network of scouts and spies through which the British government, the independent state of Vermont, […]
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November
16–17
Winter Workshop Series: Quilted Petticoats
In this two-day workshop, examine details from surviving quilted petticoats, as well as period images and descriptions of these surprisingly common women’s garments. Begin your own worsted wool quilted petticoat, with your own period quilting pattern to secure the warm woolen batting that made these so popular for women in the 18th century.
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December
7
Living History Event: “To Render This Place as Tenable as Possible”
The Continental Army at Ticonderoga gave hope to this new nation with their victory over the British Army on October 28, 1776, beginning their long watch over the winter to come. In this one-day living history event, witness soldiers’ preparations to hold the line of liberty, maintaining their discipline through the hardships of winter and […]
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January
12
Virtual Author Series featuring Serena Zabin
The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The story of the Boston Massacre—when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death—is familiar to generations. But the history of the event has always obscured a fascinating truth: that the Massacre […]
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January
25
Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details
The Fourteenth Annual “Material Matters: It’s in the Details” conference takes place virtually on January 25, 2025. We invite you to join us online for this conference on material culture spanning 1609-1815. This conference is only available online through Fort Ticonderoga’s Center for Digital History, streaming through Zoom. A laptop, tablet, or smartphone is required […]
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February
9
Virtual Author Series featuring J. L. Bell
The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The British march to Concord in April 1775 set off the Revolutionary War, but what exactly were the redcoats looking for? Looking at General Thomas Gage’s papers reveals that his main goal was to destroy four brass cannon that […]
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March
9
Virtual Author Series featuring Timothy Symington
The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. Raising one’s glass is a familiar tradition at weddings and state dinners. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, toasting was actually a very formal ritual, bringing members of certain groups together in celebration. Newspapers printed lists of toast that were given […]
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About Fort Ticonderoga
Welcoming visitors since 1909, Fort Ticonderoga is a major cultural destination, museum, historic site, and center for learning. As a multi-day destination and the premier place to learn more about North America’s military heritage, Fort Ticonderoga engages more than 75,000 visitors each year with an economic impact of more than $12 million annually. Presenting vibrant programs, historic interpretation, boat cruises, tours, demonstrations, and exhibits, Fort Ticonderoga and is open for daily visitation May through October and special programs during Winter Quarters, November through April. Fort Ticonderoga is owned by The Fort Ticonderoga Association, a 501c3 non-profit educational organization, and is supported in part through generous donations and with some general operating support made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts.
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Fort Ticonderoga is thrilled to announce the opening of the British Powder Magazine in the Southwest Bastion, open to visitors for the first time in 50 years!
Visitors can descend into this interactive space, passing through the oak door that secured this magazine. Inside this vaulted stone room, examine reproduction cannon shot and wracks of powder kegs. Young visitors will be able to roll their own cartridge and learn about the production of ammunition and the long lines of supply that made the fight for independence possible.
This space has been opened as part of Fort Ticonderoga’s multi-year programmatic initiative REAL TIME REVOLUTION™, an innovative real-time experience bringing Ticonderoga’s history to life during America’s 250th celebration. REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ captures in real- time, the events, personalities, and peoples that led to American independence from 1774 through 1777. As this captivating narrative of nationhood unfolds, day by day through living history programs from 2024 to 2027, the Powder Magazine is more than a stage, it’s part of the story.
Thanks to generous support from Americana Corner, and additional support from the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Wars, and the National Society of Colonial Wars, Fort Ticonderoga is able to make this new space accessible to the public and expand its immersive interpretive experiences and programs.
READ MORE: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/fort-ticonderoga-announces-opening-of-british-powder-magazine-interactive-space-open-to-visitors-for-the-first-time-in-50-years/
Oct 7
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! In fall 1776, the garrison at Fort Ticonderoga was hard at work. Soldiers stationed at the fort and atop Mount Independence across Lake Champlain worked to repair old fortifications and build new ones, preparing for a potential attack from General Guy Carleton’s British forces. Farther south, in Skenesborough at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, more soldiers were at work, building and maintaining a fleet that would soon attempt to challenge the British for naval superiority on the lake. Farther from the field of battle, others were busy as well, doing work of their own to support the army and make a defense of Ticonderoga possible. Today’s document, 2014.0195.001, is a resolution passed by the Connecticut General Assembly on October 10, 1776 in response to a letter from General Horatio Gates, then in command at Fort Ticonderoga. Gates had made several requests for supplies, including iron spades and shovels to be used at Ticonderoga, flour to feed the troops at Skenesborough, and shingle nails. In response, the assembly ordered that “Majr Ebenezer Gay be appointed and directed to pay for 200 Spades and Iron Shovels and send them forthwith to General Gates at Tyconderoga… and also to purchase ten Tons of Wheat Flour and transport the same forthwith to Skenesborough”. Connecticut’s treasurer would provide the money for Gay to make these purchases. Meanwhile. Dr. John Dickinson was ordered to “employ a proper number of Nail Makers forthwith to manufacture Shingle Nails” while Governor John Trumbull was to ask Gates how many nails were needed. Thanks to all these people—the artisans who manufactured the nails and shovels, the people who grew the wheat and milled the flour, the carters who transported the goods between states, the men who coordinated their purchase and transport, and the assembly members who set the purchase in motion—the soldiers at Ticonderoga and Skenesborough were kept fed, supplied, and able to do the work of war.
This document can be found on our online database in the link below.
#TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/29516
Oct 7
This #foliagefriday it’s quickly getting harder and harder to find any green as our epic landscape continues its autumn transformation. Join us this Saturday October 5th for the Heritage, Harvest, and Horse Festival to enjoy all that the fall has to offer in our majestic surroundings. #AutumnLeaves #Adirondacks #Vermont
Oct 4
Graduate Students, Scholars, and Historians! Applications for the next Omohundro Institute-Fort Ticonderoga Short Term Research Fellowship are open NOW!
Join the growing number of rising and established scholars that have taken advantage of this residential research opportunity to take a deep dive into Fort Ticonderoga`s collections to support research for a dissertation, book, or other project. We welcome proposals for studies that will utilize the vast range of visual and material culture resources, as well as traditional manuscript and print material, available in Fort Ticonderoga`s collections.
Applications are due November 1st. Information and a link to the application can be found here:https://www.fortticonderoga.org/2023-omohundro-institute-fort-ticonderoga-fellow/
Oct 2
A full day of autumn fun will be set amidst the fall flowers of the King’s Garden this Saturday, October 5th, as we present the Annual Heritage, Harvest, & Horse Festival!
Enjoy exciting equestrian demonstrations, stroll through the farmers’ market featuring local food, beverages, and crafts, and conquer the six-acre Heroic Corn Maze featuring a NEW design for 2024! Be sure to bring your appetite and stop by one of the delicious visitor-favorite food trucks (Papa Duke`s BBQ & Rolling Rooster)!
This fall-favorite event, combined with all the daily Fort Ticonderoga programs, makes for a great annual family tradition. Learn more and view the full visitor schedule by visiting the link in our bio: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/heritage-harvest-and-horse-festival-2/
Oct 2
Enjoy the beauty as the leaves change aboard the Carillon during a 75-minute narrated boat cruise! The cruises cover some of the most archaeologically rich waters in North America -- from shipwrecks to a massive bridge that the Americans built in 1777, Lake Champlain holds defining stories of America’s past.
The tours feature an energetic narration of Ticonderoga’s epic story as one of North America’s most strategic strongholds and places the iconic fort into a larger context as part of the imperial struggle for the continent in the 18th century.
Boat tours run Tuesday-Sunday through October 18. Tickets are available online by visiting the link in our bio or can be purchased on-site, as available. Tours are available rain or shine. Snack/beverage bar on board for credit card purchase!
#waterwaytours #fallfoliage #ADK #UpstateNYFoliage #FortTiconderoga #LakeChamplain
Oct 1
