• 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

2021 Winter Quarters

Stay up-to-date with on-site events and exciting virtual programs by visiting the event calendar.

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Fort Ticonderoga will open for Campaign Season and daily visitation starting May 1, 2021.

Explore the beautiful gardens, discover the epic history, find adventure in signature events, march with the Fifes and Drums, and learn about a historic trade.

Visit the reconstructed fort, get lost in the 6-acre historic corn maze, enjoy the Carillon Battlefield hiking trail, and take in the unforgettable view from the top of Mount Defiance with a sweeping vista of Lake Champlain and Vermont’s Green Mountains.

Access educational content from home by visiting our Center for Digital History.

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    February

    24

    Virtual Fort Fever Series

    Cuba to Champlain: Enslavement and Empire on the Road to Independence Dr. Matthew Keagle, Fort Ticonderoga Curator  The Fort Ticonderoga Fort Fever Series features presentations by Fort Ticonderoga staff. The Champlain Valley feels far from the plantation and cane fields most associated with the pernicious institution of slavery, but the region was not immune to […]

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    February

    25

    Virtual Program: From the Ground Up

    From building fortifications to planting vegetables in the King’s Garden, explore Fort Ticonderoga’s archaeological tool collection. This program can be viewed on Fort Ticonderoga’s Facebook page starting at 1pm.

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    February

    27

    Virtual Living History Event: Four Divisions Formed at Fort Carillon -1757 French Raid on Fort William Henry

    See French Regulars and Canadians assemble at Fort Carillon, later named Ticonderoga, preparing to march across frozen Lake George to surprise the British in 1757. Watch as French soldiers build scaling ladders and artillerymen prepare the guns, stores, and ammunition, as the army prepares for a surprise winter attack! All programs will be featured on Fort […]

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This week’s #WhatIsItWednesday object is a mortar! Mortars are artillery pieces designed to fire projectiles in a high arc, in comparison to the relatively flat trajectory of cannon. These allowed the user to fire ordnance such as explosive shells over walls and fortifications, making mortars an ideal siege weapon. This particular bronze mortar was cast under the rule of King Louis XIV of France in the late 17th or early 18th century, and fired shells measuring just over 10 inches in diameter. More details on this particular object, as well as our artillery collection as a whole, can be found on our online database through the link in bio ☝️! #ticonderogacollections #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #history #militaryhistory #17thcentury #18thcentury #artillery #museumcollection
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The detail for this week’s #WhatIsItWednesday object comes from a seal! Consisting of a carved carnelian stone set in a gold mounting, this object would be impressed into melted wax to seal a folded document, leaving an impression in the wax from the carved section of the stone. This would create a tamper-evident seal while at the same time identifying the sender: in this case Angelica Schuyler, daughter of Philip Schuyler and sister-in-law of Alexander Hamilton! This object is one of many that can be located on our online database, found in the link in bio ☝️! #TiconderogaCollections #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #museum #museumcollection #18thcentury #19thcentury #angelica #schuylersisters #work #seal #letter #writing
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Thomas Cole was born #OTD in 1801 in Bolton-Le-Moors, England. Cole emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818, and soon pursued work as an artist. Cole's work as an artist required him to travel frequently, enabling him to view American landscapes which he frequently depicted in his artwork, including a visit to the Ticonderoga peninsula in 1826. This visit inspired him to paint 'View near Ticonderoga' or 'Gelyna', which remains his earliest signed and dated painting. More details on this important work can now be found on our online collections database through the link in bio ☝️! #TiconderogaCollections #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #history #museums #museumcollection #painting #paint #art #artist #landscape #19thcentury #thomascole #fineart #hudsonriverschool #adirondacks
From 18th century soldiers to 19th century tourists, learn about the different buttons found at Fort Ticonderoga through the link in bio☝️! #TiconderogaCollections #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #archaeology #museums #museumcollection #history #18thcentury #militaryhistory #buttons #clothing #uniforms
This week’s #WhatIsItWednesday object is a belt plate! This brass plate dates to the late 18th - early 19th century and has an engraved image of a man on horseback, in military uniform, wearing a crested cap, and with one raised arm holding a sword, identifying the object as belonging to a member of a light dragoon company, most likely in the militia. More images and information on this object can be found on our online database through the link in bio ☝️! #TiconderogaCollections #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #museum #museumcollection #18thcentury #19thcentury #history #militaryhistory #horse #soldier 

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Born to an old and distinguished New England family #OTD in 1741, Benedict Arnold conducted business across the British colonies in North America and the West Indies prior to the opening of the American Revolutionary War. Actively seeking opportunities for command, Arnold made a name for himself through a series of impressive, arrogant, and daring actions such as the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, the harrowing march to Québec in 1775 and the naval defense of the Champlain Valley in 1776. Despite stunning heroism and leadership repelling British invaders in Connecticut and at the Battles of Saratoga in 1777, Arnold eventually turned on the Continental Army and entered into negotiations with the British for complex and still-debated reasons, earning the ignominy of becoming America's most famous traitor. Learn more about the lock of Benedict Arnold's hair in Fort Ticonderoga's collections in this Collections Speed Dating episode through the link in bio☝️! #TiconderogaCollections #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #history #militaryhistory #museum #museumcollections #americanrevolution #revolutionarywar #benedictarnold 

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The detail from this week’s #WhatIsItWednesday object comes from a game piece! This flattened lead disc has an impressed floral design on one side, and was recovered from the grounds of Fort Ticonderoga in the early 20th century. Multiple game pieces like the one seen here have been found on site, many of which can be seen on our online collections database through the link in bio ☝️! #TiconderogaCollections  #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #museum #museumcollection #history #militaryhistory #18thcentury #game #flower #artifact #archaeology #archaeologicalcollection 

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Alexander Hamilton was born #OTD in 1755/1757 on Nevis, an island in the Caribbean Sea. Alexander faced repeated setbacks at a young age, as his father James Hamilton had abandoned his family in 1766, and also lost his mother, Rachel Fawcett Levien, just two years later. Forced to fend for himself, Alexander took up work as an accounting clerk on the island of St. Croix. His hard work and skillful writing had impressed locals on the island, who pooled funds to send Hamilton to America for his education. After arriving in America Hamilton enrolled in King’s College in 1773, but his education was soon overshadowed by his own patriotic fervor. Hamilton abandoned his studies after receiving a commission as a captain of the New York Provincial Company of Artillery. After serving with distinction in battles at Trenton, White Plains, and Princeton, Hamilton caught the interest of his superiors in the Continental Army, including George Washington, who appointed him as an aide-de-camp in 1777. This epaulet is attributed to Alexander Hamilton, and is consistent with the style that would have been worn on his uniform during his service in the New York Provincial Company of Artillery. You can find this object, as well as other Hamilton-related objects on our online collections database through the link in bio☝️! #TiconderogaCollections #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #museumcollections #18thcentury #19thcentury #history #militaryhistory #alexanderhamilton #hamilton #foundingfathers #americanrevolution #revwar #revolutionarywar
This week’s #WhatIsItWednesday object is a knapsack! Dating to the early 19th century, this black and red painted linen knapsack belonged to a member of the Independent Company of Cadets of Boston, Massachusetts. This volunteer militia company was chartered in 1741, and was most famously commanded by John Hancock until he was dismissed and company disbanded just prior to the American Revolution. The company was eventually reformed in 1786. The body of this knapsack is marked with a painted image of the company’s insignia and motto: “Monstrat Viam”, Latin for “It Points the Way”. More images and information on this knapsack and others can be found on our online collections database through the link in bio☝️! #TiconderogaCollections #fortticonderoga #ticonderoga #19thcentury #militaryhistory #history #museum #museumcollection #knapsack #fashion