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Winter Quarters: November-April, open on select dates. Please visit the event calendar for more information.
Daily Visitation: May 3-Oct. 26, 2025 | 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.
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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 2025! 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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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.Instagram @FORT_TICONDEROGA
The May 10, 1775 capture of Fort Ticonderoga, not only placed the Fort and its military stores in American hands, it upended the entire surrounding community. Two months earlier neighbors came to Ticonderoga as British subjects, to trade and talk at the market. Soon settlers would choose sides and whether to remain or leave as Ticonderoga became the seat of the Revolutionary War in the north.
#REALTIMEREVOLUTION #America250 #OTD1775
On this Trades Tuesday consider that shoe repair transcended war and peace in the British Army. For the shoemakers among each company of British soldiers, their work fixing the soles and heels of their comrades` shoes only became more urgent after the Revolutionary War reached Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775. Whether comfortably stitching inside Fort Ticonderoga`s barracks or in the brief pauses of a forced march, this work went on.
#TradesTuesday #HistoricTrades #America250
As tensions were running high in Massachusetts General Thomas Gage informed Guy Carleton #OTD in 1775 that "His Majesty has judged it proper to have a Fort at Crown Point."
The mighty fortress there burned accidentally in 1773, and deciding whether to rebuild it or nearby Ticonderoga took until the end of 1774 when both were ordered to be reconstructed. Any new fort would not be as substantial as the last, and Gage cautioned that "There is no Occasion. I presume. to think of one so considerable. as the Former. but to have a place. of Strength there."
Gage ended his note by telling Carleton that the revolutionaries in Massachusetts "try all Methods to drive the People into every kind of Extravagance and Madness." War was on the horizon and repairs to Crown Point were never completed.
#REALTIMEREVOLUTION
Thank you to everyone who came out to make our March event “The Market for Produce Goods” a success. #realtimerevolution #america250 #livinghistory
Join us tomorrow as Fort Ticonderoga presents the REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Market for Produce Goods. Highlighted programming throughout the day reveals surprising connections between British soldiers and American colonists.
Interact with working cattle and fluffy sheep who were vital to life for the British garrison. Savor the aromas of a traditional soldiers` dinner and meet the skilled craftsmen who were integral to the British Army, keeping soldiers clothed and shoed. Examine the genteel distinctions officers enjoyed in their food, creature comforts, and more.
To view the full event schedule, visit https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/real-time-revolution-living-history-event-the-market-for-produce-goods/
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