• One Destination,
    Endless Adventures
    Your Adventure Awaits
    at Fort Ticonderoga

  • One Destination,
    Endless Adventures
    Your Adventure Awaits
    at Fort Ticonderoga

  • One Destination,
    Endless Adventures
    Your Adventure Awaits
    at Fort Ticonderoga

  • One Destination,
    Endless Adventures
    Your Adventure Awaits
    at Fort Ticonderoga

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WE ARE IN WINTER QUARTERS!

Although we are not open for daily programs, November 2022-April 2023, become immersed in special living history events, engaging seminars, behind-the-scenes VIP Tours, virtual programming, and hands-on workshops on select days.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance will open for Tues-Sun visitation starting May 6, 2023!

The Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium

The King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga presents the Eleventh Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium on Saturday, April 1, 2023. This program features practical strategies for expanding and improving your garden and landscape. We invite you to join us, whether you are an experienced gardener or you are just getting started, for helpful insights from garden experts who live and garden in northern climates.

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Fort Ticonderoga has been awarded a $10,000 Regrowth and Capacity Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). 

The grant funds will provide support to Fort Ticonderoga to broaden visitor accessibility both digitally as well as on-site with increased and improved wayfinding. Fort Ticonderoga is partnering with New York University (NYU) and Brawn Media to develop an improved visitor experience for all.

Continue reading by clicking the link in our bio https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/fort-ticonderoga-receives-funding-to-enhance-visitor-experience-for-all-funding-made-possible-by-the-new-york-state-council-on-the-arts-nysca/ 

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This Wednesday, March 22 at 7 pm ET, join Fort Ticonderoga Collections Manager Tabitha Hubbard as she highlights the incredible work being undertaken by museum staff to document, preserve, and make accessible Ticonderoga’s world-class archival collection during a new Fort Fever Program.
 
Fort Ticonderoga is currently cataloging, inventorying, and rehousing the museum’s manuscript collections. Along the way, we are rediscovering hundreds of documents that tell the stories of the people who were here at Ticonderoga.

Attendees at this Fort Fever presentation will be able to see manuscripts that have never been on display or have been in museum storage for decades and learn more about the transformative collections management work we are accomplishing here at the museum. Participants will also learn how to use the Ticonderoga Collections Online database to be able to conduct their own research from home.
 
The project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

There is still time to register by clicking the link in our bio! https://www.fortticonderoga.org/event/virtual-fort-fever-series-documenting-preserving-and-make-accessible-ticonderogas-archives/
What could be better for St. Patrick’s Day than the most Irish uniform in our collection! 
 
This is the only known surviving uniform of the Montgomery Guards, an Irish-American militia company formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1837. The company was named after the Irish-born General Richard Montgomery, the highest-ranking Continental officer killed in the Revolutionary War. Incidentally, it was Montgomery’s forces that captured many of the cannon Henry Knox would later transport to the American lines, prompting the British to evacuate Boston, and establishing Boston’s other March 17th holiday, Evacuation Day. 
 
The Irish contribution to Henry Knox’s expedition was not considered by many Bostonians and the Montgomery Guards became the target of angry protests by nativist militia companies leading to a near riot in the streets of Boston. The company was disbanded just months later, ending this attempt to claim the benefits of American citizenship. 
 
The uniform of the Montgomery Guards is on display through 2023 in our exhibit “A Well Regulated Militia: Citizen, Solder, and State."

Read the full blog by visiting the link in our bio https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/legacies-of-march-17th-bostons-twin-holidays-and-american-identity/