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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.
MAY 4-5: Living History Event: “For the Good of the King’s Service”
This exciting two-day living history event kicks off Fort Ticonderoga’s 2024 Campaign Season! Experience peacetime garrison life in British North America on the eve of the Revolutionary War as Fort Ticonderoga begins REAL TIME REVOLUTION™! 250 years to the day, discover daily life for British soldiers and their families in 1774.
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May
17
Annual History Conference for Educators
This annual daylong conference immerses teachers in primary sources, material culture, and pedagogical techniques to help connect students to history. Presentations are by classroom teachers, museum staff, archivists, and academics. With the approach of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, each session of this conference explores one of five themes: Power of Place Revolutionary Possibilities […]
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May
17–19
Twenty-Eighth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War
Fort Ticonderoga presents the Twenty-Eighth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War over three days, Friday-Sunday, May 17-19, 2024. Since its beginning in 1996, this premier seminar focuses on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across North America and Europe. Attendees can […]
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May
25–26
Memorial Day Weekend Commemoration
Fort Ticonderoga will pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives to their country during the American Revolution. Discover the story of the American Army in 1777 and how it prepared to defend liberty at Ticonderoga through living history programs and demonstrations throughout Memorial Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26, 2024. […]
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June
8
Annual Spring King’s Garden Plant Sale
As part of National Garden Week June 2-8, and back by popular demand, mark your calendars for the return of the King’s Garden Plant Sale on June 8 from 10am-4pm! Help Fort Ticonderoga with the historic garden’s stewardship and take home your living legacy from the walled King’s Garden. Visitors have the option to purchase […]
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June
9
Virtual Author Series featuring Theodore Corbett
The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Another revolution existed in the late 18th-century world, not the familiar movement for independence of the United States or even the French Revolution, but rather the effort for freedom from slavery, opposed by most in the thirteen British colonies […]
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June
15
Living History Event: Scots Day
This family-favorite cultural event explores Scottish clan tents to learn more about their rich ancestry and culture. Merchants selling kilts, crafts, and other gifts will join Scottish organizations from across the East Coast to greet visitors with information on all aspects of their rich heritage. Inside Fort Ticonderoga, discover the heroic stories of Scottish soldiers […]
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June
21
History Happy Hour on Lake Champlain
Cap off your day with a relaxing narrated cruise, surrounded by scenic beauty and Ticonderoga’s rich maritime history aboard the Carillon, Fort Ticonderoga’s classic 1920s tour boat. From poignant to comical, discover the drama that surrounded Ticonderoga on the storied waters of Lake Champlain. Enjoy the flavor of history through classic cocktails, taken from tales […]
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June
25
A Date with Brown Bess
In 1774, the British troops at Fort Ticonderoga carried a version of the famous “Brown Bess” musket. But what’s the real story behind this iconic firearm? In this one-of-a-kind behind the scenes, hands-on program, get up close and personal with Fort Ticonderoga Curator, Dr. Matthew Keagle, to really understand “Brown Bess” revealing the industrial systems […]
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June
28
Cannon and Coffee
Explore Fort Ticonderoga’s world-class collection of 18th-century artillery from a whole new perspective and be the first to enter Fort Ticonderoga with this special early bird program. Join Fort Ticonderoga Curator, Dr. Matthew Keagle for a special tour across the guns of Ticonderoga and learn the surprising histories of the museum’s artillery collection, spanning the […]
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June
28
History Happy Hour on Lake Champlain
Cap off your day with a relaxing narrated cruise, surrounded by scenic beauty and Ticonderoga’s rich maritime history aboard the Carillon, Fort Ticonderoga’s classic 1920s tour boat. From poignant to comical, discover the drama that surrounded Ticonderoga on the storied waters of Lake Champlain. Enjoy the flavor of history through classic cocktails, taken from tales […]
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July
2
A Date with Brown Bess
In 1774, the British troops at Fort Ticonderoga carried a version of the famous “Brown Bess” musket. But what’s the real story behind this iconic firearm? In this one-of-a-kind behind the scenes, hands-on program, get up close and personal with Fort Ticonderoga Curator, Dr. Matthew Keagle, to really understand “Brown Bess” revealing the industrial systems […]
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July
2
A Taste of Liberty
Explore a day in the life of British soldiers and their families on the eve of the American Revolution through food! In this new family-friendly program, sample a tasting menu of the real recipes enjoyed by the British garrison of Fort Ticonderoga in 1774. Enjoy portions of tasty breakfasts and savory dinners, incorporating carefully selected […]
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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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A sunny #TradesTuesday was a great day for laundry! Women with the British Army made a living with the skilled craft of cleaning linen shirts, tablecloths, and sheets. Each day in #REALTIMEREVOLUTION discover how the #RevolutionaryWar impacted more than just soldiers, even before the war at #FortTiconderoga in 1774.
May 8
Away in New Jersey.
#OTD in 1774 Lieutenant Arthur Wadman of the 26th Regiment was far from his regiment`s headquarters in Canada. He was actually in Brunswick, New Jersey, where the regiment had been stationed 7 years earlier. Wadman was one of a few officers that married New Jersey women while on duty there. He was likely visiting his wife`s family when on May 7, 1774, his commander, Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Templar (who had also married a New Jersey woman), ordered him to report back to the regiment in Canada.
Lieutenant Wadman would return to New Jersey again in 1775, and was again ordered back to the regiment, this time to Ticonderoga. Unfortunately on that occasion he arrived on May 10, just hours after the fort had been taken by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen, and walked directly into captivity.
#REALTIMEREVOLUTION
#America250
#26thregimentoffoot
May 7
It`s National Teacher Day! Fort Ticonderoga thanks all the educators who join us in our mission to preserve, educate, and provoke an active discussion about the past and its importance to present and future generations. Check out these upcoming programs for educators:
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/learn-and-explore/educators/
#FortTiconderoga #NationalTeacherDay
May 7
#OTD in 1774 the "New Hampshire Gazette" published "Remarks, &c. on some late Laws passed in New-York."
While it doesn`t sound like much, the laws referred to in the title branded Ethan Allen and other Green Mountain Boys as outlaws by the Province of New York. The "Remarks" amounted to a manifesto of their loyalty the crown, but their defiance of unjust laws. They vehemently resisted New York`s authority, and concluded by asserting that they were “under a Necessity of resisting unto Blood, every Person who may attempt to take us as Fellons or Rioters”
Many of these individuals, fully prepared for armed conflict, would take leading roles in the capture of Ticonderoga as the Revolution began almost a year later.
#REALTIMEREVOLUTION
#America250
#fortticonderoga
May 6
Register now for the Twenty-Eighth Annual War College of the Seven Years` taking place May 17-19, 2024. Participants can attend in person or online for this premier conference focused on the Seven Years` War in North America and abroad. Register at this link:
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/twenty-eighth-annual-war-college-of-the-seven-years-war/
May 6
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Fort Ticonderoga’s 2024 campaign season has begun, and our newest exhibit, “A Revolutionary Anthology: Power of Place”, is open to visitors. Visit the exhibit to discover the stories of objects and artifacts from across the many sites of the Revolution, including some from places that may surprise you and some that are on exhibit for the first time. The exhibit gives visitors a chance to see some of our most fascinating archival documents in person, including today’s manuscript, MS.2088. This manuscript, a letter from Charles Terrot to John Frott, gives a British perspective on the events of fall 1776 in the Champlain Valley. After repelling an American invasion of Canada, British troops advanced up Lake Champlain towards the American stronghold of Fort Ticonderoga, defeating Benedict Arnold’s American fleet with great effort in the October 11 Battle of Valcour Island. After the battle, the British encamped at Fort Crown Point, only about 10 miles north of Ticonderoga, and Ticonderoga’s garrison anxiously awaited a British attack. But in this letter, dated November 11, 1776, British artillery lieutenant Terrot writes not from Ticonderoga, but from St. Johns, 150 miles north of Crown Point. He explains what went wrong with the army’s plans: “In my last I informed you I was going to Crown Point [but] the bad State in which the Works were in together with the Barracks & Houses being destroyed prevented our staying there this Winter… There are too many Men at Ticonderago for us to attack this year”. Despite the change of plans, Terrot looks with pleasure at both the past and future of the British campaign; he attaches a hand-drawn map of the Battle of Valcour Island, in which “the Artillery never gained more Honour”, and he writes hopefully of the New York City army of General William Howe, “I believe we shall meet next year at Albany”. To learn what became of these British ambitions for 1777, check out the Champlain Valley section of “Power of Place”!
This document can be found on our online database in the link below. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault #arevolutionaryanthology https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30093
May 6
As Fort Ticonderoga looks forward to the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, we invite educators to join us for a day-long in-person conference focusing on five themes related to the War for Independence! Register here:
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/annual-history-conference-for-educators/
May 5
