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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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September
20–22
Twentieth Annual Seminar on the American Revolution
This annual premier conference focused on the military, political, social, and material culture of the American Revolution regularly features scholars from across North America and beyond. Attendees can participate in person or join the conference from home via the Fort Ticonderoga Center for Digital History. Seminar Schedule Friday, September 20, 2024 8:00am-4:00pm “In the Footsteps […]
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September
24
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
1
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
5
Heritage, Harvest, and Horse Festival
Fort Ticonderoga, surrounded by magnificent autumn backdrops of the Adirondacks and Green Mountains will present the Annual Heritage, Harvest, & Horse Festival on October 5, 2024. The full day of autumn fun will be set in the midst of the King’s Garden heirloom apple trees and the beautiful landscape of the mountains and Lake Champlain. […]
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October
8
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
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 Isreal 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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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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John William Nelson, author of the new book "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago`s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent," will be signing copies of his book in the Museum Store at Fort Ticonderoga on Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 1:00pm, as part of the Seminar on the American Revolution. The book signing is open to anyone onsite that day.
#BookSigning #SeminarontheAmericanRevolution #FortTiconderoga #AmericanRevolution #Ticonderoga
Sep 17
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! On September 3, 1783, British and American diplomats signed the Treaty of Paris, bringing the war between the two nations to an end. This looks like a neat demarcating line between war and peace, but the truth, as it usually is, was messier. The last land battle to be fought between American and British forces, the Siege of Yorktown, ended almost two years before the treaty was signed. In the interim, as diplomatic negotiations dragged on, the remaining British troops in America and the American army entered an uneasy détente. The armies prepared for peace and demobilization, especially after preliminary articles of peace were signed in November 1782, although both were aware that peace was not a guarantee. Today’s document, MS.2156, is a commission for the loyalist Prince of Wales’ American Regiment. The commission names Oliver Peck as an ensign and is dated September 10, 1783, a week after the Treaty of Paris was signed. News took weeks to travel over the sea, and General Guy Carleton, commander of British forces in North America and one of the signers of the commission, couldn’t have known when he signed it that the war was already over on paper. However, he knew that peace negotiations were in their final stages. The Prince of Wales’ Regiment was already on its way to demobilization; on September 12, a ship filled with men from the regiment and their families would embark for New Brunswick, ready to start a new life in a still-British colony. While the regiment still existed on paper, Peck and Carleton likely knew that Peck would never see action as its ensign. Perhaps the regiment wanted to honor a soldier who had served well with a promotion before the war officially ended, or perhaps Peck had a reason for joining a regiment in decline. Whatever the reason, Peck did not have much time to enjoy his rank. News of the Treaty of Paris soon reached North America, and the Prince of Wales’ Regiment was disbanded on October 10, a month after Peck was commissioned.
This document can be found on our online database in the link below. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30137
Sep 16
This #FoliageFriday, the quickly changing leaves have set the stage for our battle reenactment this weekend of Colonel John Brown`s daring raid that took place here at Ticonderoga in the fall of 1777. Our location overlooking #lakechamplain is the perfect destination to get your fix of the fall colors! #Adirondacks #Vermont #Leafpeeping #autumnvibes
Sep 13
In addition to action-packed programming during the 2-day Brown`s Raid Battle Reenactment September 14-15, Saturday vignettes will proudly feature a NEWLY opened space -- the Revolutionary War powder magazine.
Visitors will experience the drama as German soldiers inadvertently ignite gunpowder within this magazine as they hastily fire captured cannon on Fort Ticonderoga against Brown’s raiders on Mount Defiance. This powder magazine is open to the public for the first time in nearly 50 years thanks to generous grant support from Americana Corner, the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Wars and the National Society of Colonial Wars.
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/battle-reenactment-1777-browns-raid/
Sep 10
Today on #TradesTuesday, we salute shoe repair. Shoemakers among British soldiers could make a good living, as they typically earned 1 shilling 2 pence for repairing one of their fellow soldier`s pair of shoes. This more than doubled private soldier`s daily pay, or, "subsistence," of 6 pence. These vital repairs began with cutting away the old, worn-out sole, and sewing on new leather. Whether at #FortTiconderoga, or anywhere around the British empire, shoemakers were essential in every company of the British Army in 1774.
#HistoricTrades
Sep 10
Thank you to everyone who attended our #HomeschoolDay this past Friday, enjoying all our hands-on learning opportunities within #REALTIMEREVOLUTION! Put our next Homeschool Day on the calendar now for September 5, 2025 and explore the American guard of #FortTiconderoga in our REALTIMEREVOLUTIONTM portrayal of 1775.
Sep 9
