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Daily Visitation: May 4-October 27, 2024 | Tuesday-Sunday | 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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Premium Pavilion Tour
October 15, 2024 • The PavilionDelve 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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Girl Scout Day
October 19, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaScouts 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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Bon Voyage Cruise on Lake Champlain
October 19, 2024 • Carillon Boat Dock located at Fort TiconderogaSOLD OUT! 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. […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Michael E. Shay
October 20, 2024 • VirtualThe 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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Virtual Author Series featuring John William Nelson
November 3, 2024 • VirtualThe 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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Living History Event: “The Enemy Are Refortifying Ticonderoga”
November 9, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaThis 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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Winter Workshop Series: Quilted Petticoats
November 16, 2024 - November 17, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn 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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Living History Event: “To Render This Place as Tenable as Possible”
December 7, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaThe 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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Virtual Author Series featuring Serena Zabin
January 12, 2025 • ZoomThe 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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Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details
January 25, 2025 • ZoomThe 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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Virtual Author Series featuring J. L. Bell
February 9, 2025 • VirtualThe 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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Virtual Author Series featuring Timothy Symington
March 9, 2025 • ZoomThe 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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Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium
April 5, 2025 • HybridThe King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga presents the Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium on Saturday, April 5, 2025. This program features practical strategies for expanding an improving your garden and landscape. We invite you to join us, whether you are an experiences gardener or just getting started, for helpful insights from garden experts who […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Stephen Brumwell
April 13, 2025 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty traces Arnold’s journey from enthusiastic support of American independence to his spectacularly traitorous acts and narrow escape. Stephen Brumwell’s research leads to an unexpected conclusion: Arnold’s mystifying betrayal was […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ 3-Day Battle Reenactment: No Quarter!
May 9, 2025 - May 11, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaAttend the 250th Anniversary reenactment of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys as well as the immediate aftermath. Examine the real story behind America’s First Victory and learn of America’s first offensive push of the Revolution. Attend the night-time program and witness the Green Mountain Boys […]
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Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War
May 30, 2025 - June 1, 2025 • HybridFort Ticonderoga presents the Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War over three days, Friday-Sunday, May 30-June 1, 2025. Since its beginning in 1996, the War College has become a top venue for historians on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Christian Di Spigna
June 8, 2025 •The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. According to Christian Di Spigna, author of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero, little has been known of one of the most import figures in early American history. Dr. Joseph […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Michael P. Gabriel
July 20, 2025 •The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Available for the first time in English, Quebec during the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, & Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Mark R. Anderson
August 17, 2025 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. In this dramatic retelling of one of history’s great “what-ifs,” Mark R. Anderson examines the American colonies’ campaign to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free the Canadians from British “tyranny.” This significant reassessment of a little-studied campaign examines developments […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Battle Reenactment: Onward to Canada
August 30, 2025 - August 31, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaWitness the dramatic first muster of the Northern Continental Army as regiments of New Yorkers, Connecticut Yankees, and the Green Mountain Boys assembled for the invasion of Canada. This event will highlight Ticonderoga’s place on Lake Champlain as a supply and naval base through participants rowing to and from Ticonderoga as a fleet of bateaux […]
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Twenty-First Annual Seminar on the American Revolution
September 19, 2025 - September 21, 2025 • 102 fort ti road ticonderogaFort Ticonderoga seeks proposals for papers broadly addressing the period of the War for American Independence with a focus on “Subjects, Citizens, Service” for its Twenty-First Annual Seminar on the American Revolution to be held September 19-21, 2025. Submissions are due September 30, 2024. See the Call for Papers link below. This annual premier conference […]
