Fort Ticonderoga | Experience America’s History

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!

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Daily Programs

Explore Ticonderoga’s epic history through guided tours, weapon demos, historic trades, & more!
King’s Garden

Awaken your sense in the historic gardens and savor the breathtaking beauty!
Farm-to-Fork Dining

Enjoy delicious local and regional favorites. Dine in or take out!
Museum Collection

Explore one of North America’s finest collections of 18th-century material culture.
Mount Defiance

Witness a birds-eye view of Fort Ticonderoga’s epic historic landscape.
Boat Cruises

Step aboard the Carillon for a relaxing 75-minute narrated cruise on Lake Champlain. Cruises begin on May 28th!
Premium Pavilion Tour

Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion during this brand new tour!
Corn Maze

Use history-related clues to help make your way through this 6-acre life-size maze! New designs every year.
Heritage Breeds

Meet friendly animals featuring heritage breed oxen duo, Mick & Mack!
Battle Re-enactments

Relive the epic history of Ticonderoga’s many chapters during intense recreated battles and vignettes.
Living History

Discover daily life for soldiers from shoemaking and tailoring to carpentry and cooking.
Museum Store

Shop a full selection of exclusive merchandise inspired by our history, collections, and beautiful landscape.
Specialty Tours

Go behind-the-scenes and experience Fort Ticonderoga like never before!

Experience Fort Ticonderoga on the eve of the American Revolution as British soldiers and their families live in this peacetime fort on the frontier.

Discover what it was like to be a British soldier, soldier’s wife, or child living at Ticonderoga.

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Living History Event: 1774 His Majesty’s Garrison of Ticonderoga

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February

11–12

Winter Workshop Series: Lined Wool Breeches

In this two-day, hands-on workshop, build your own linen-lined woolen breeches. Simultaneously warm and comfortable, lined woolen breeches were a staple in men’s military dress. Choose from a variety of […]
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February

12

Virtual Author Series featuring Claire Bellerjeau

The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. Join author Claire Bellerjeau for a talk about her book Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert […]
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February

18

Living History Event: 1774 His Majesty’s Garrison of Ticonderoga

Experience Fort Ticonderoga on the eve of the American Revolution as British soldiers and their families live in this peacetime fort on the frontier. Discover what it was like to […]
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Sneak peak at this coming seasons portrayal!
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Jan 27

Sneak peak at this coming seasons portrayal!

Representing the year of 1760, when a New York Independent Company garrisoned Fort Ticonderoga. These British Regulars were commanded by a young Captain Horatio Gates.

Check it out yourself when we open May 6th!

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Join Fort Ticonderoga on Saturday, February 18 for...

Jan 24

Join Fort Ticonderoga on Saturday, February 18 for a lively living history event recreating the peacetime garrison life for the British soldiers and their families that lived at Fort Ticonderoga in 1774.

Delve into the process of creating healthy essentials such as brewing vitamin-packed spruce beer and boiling soap. Cooking preparations and demonstrations will bring to life the sights and aromas of the meals that soldiers and their families enjoyed together. See carpentry tools in action and discover the ongoing work to maintain and furnish the barracks in 1774. Meet some of the cattle and livestock that Captain William Delaplace and his soldiers kept at peacetime Ticonderoga.

Click the link in our bio to view the full schedule! https://www.fortticonderoga.org/event/living-history-event-1774-his-majestys-garrison-of-ticonderoga/

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Mick and Mack enjoying the fresh blanket of snow!

Jan 23

Mick and Mack enjoying the fresh blanket of snow!

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Happy #ManuscriptMonday & ...

Jan 23

Happy #ManuscriptMonday & #nationalhandwritingday For the past few weeks we’ve been discussing documents that genealogists use to gain insight into the lives of their ancestors. Today’s document, MS.7099, is an example from another category: a financial record! Sets of financial records, such as a ledger kept by a business or a book of household expenses, provide valuable information both about the person who kept the records and those they interacted with. Patterns of transactions over time—what goods is someone buying? How much, for what price, and how frequently? Who are they making deals with?—can shed light on a person’s career, economic status, and business and social circles. Even a single financial record can offer clues about a life. Fort Ticonderoga’s archives hold the papers of New York loyalist and British army officer Philip Skene, who owned the land of the town of Skenesborough, NY (Whitehall) and developed a settlement there in the 1760s and 1770s. Among Skene’s papers are a group of financial records of transactions between and among him and his Skenesborough tenants. MS.7099 is dated March 22, 1770 and records three transactions: two are promissory notes in which Zaccheus Grainger promises to pay Skene 2 pounds and John Dewey promises to pay Skene 1 pound 12 shillings, and the other is a receipt where John Dewey reports receiving a bay stallion, 76 muskrat skins, and 2 raccoon skins from Skene and promises to pay him. This document establishes the physical locations of Grainger and Dewey, since the document is dated from Skenesborough. It also opens up intriguing possibilities for Dewey’s career and lifestyle. What was he planning to do with 76 muskrat skins? The stallion Dewey bought was worth 20 pounds, much more than the other recorded transactions; was this a typical purchase for him or a significant investment? While these questions can’t be answered from one document alone, records like these are an important piece in the puzzle that genealogists piece together.

See this document in our online database in the link in bio. #TiconderogaCollections https://fortticonderoga.pastperfectonline.com/archive/F5AB7447-CD09-4A74-92D0-577804703250

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Thank you to all our visitors and supporters who ...

Jan 19

Thank you to all our visitors and supporters who came out for our Supplying our Army in Canada living history event. It was great to share the struggle for liberty through the dismal winter days of 1776! #livinghistory #ticonderoga #1776 #winterquarters

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The Collections Department is constantly working ...

Jan 19

The Collections Department is constantly working to add objects to the Ticonderoga Online Collections database and to improve existing records. Improvements include adding additional information about objects as more research occurs and updating photographs. This week we temporarily removed a few of the archival documents currently on display in our exhibit “A Well Regulated Militia: Citizen, Soldier & State” in order to take new and improved photographs.

You can explore all of the material on exhibit in “A Well Regulated Militia: Citizen, Soldier, & State” through the Ticonderoga Online Collections database at the link in bio. #TiconderogaCollections

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Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Last week’s post ...

Jan 16

Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Last week’s post focused on pension applications and what genealogists can learn from them. Today we’ll highlight a common document that still has a lot to offer researchers: land records. Land records, such as deeds and leases, document the transfer of property rights from one set of hands to another. They can help a researcher understand the physical, financial, and social world of an ancestor, although caution should be taken not to assume too much without evidence—while land records can prove that someone had ownership or use rights to a lot of land, it does not always mean they lived there full-time. Some records may describe the boundaries of a property by listing the owners of neighboring lots or physical features of the land. They are signed by witnesses, who may have been relatives, prominent community members, or others that parties to a deal interacted with in their daily lives. Today’s document, MS.7077.3, is a lease between Samuel Deall and his cousin Francis Arthur dated January 17, 1800. Deall, a landowner in Ticonderoga and Crown Point, leases 215.75 acres of land in Crown Point to Arthur for 21 years. The rent for the first 3 years is one peppercorn, while the remaining rent is 12 pounds, 9 shillings yearly. The concept of the “peppercorn rent” still exists in modern legal transactions when one party to a contract makes a nominal payment (such as $1) so that each party has offered something of value; in the 18th and 19th centuries, a literal peppercorn was often used. Beneath the original lease, another deal, dated November 25, 1802, transfers the lease to Elijah Cooper in return for $100. This one document shows land passing between several parties over time, and the inclusion of two sets of witnesses on the lease provides a glimpse into the Deall-Arthur family and their associates. Records like these, especially when viewed as a group, can help flesh out our view of historical people and communities.

This document can be found on our online database in the link in bio. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.pastperfectonline.com/archive/367CF2B6-A15B-4B10-9DCE-264933524928

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There’s still time to register for the Twelfth ...

Jan 12

There’s still time to register for the Twelfth Annual “Material Matters: It’s in the Details” conference taking place online Saturday, January 21, 2023. You can participate from the comfort of home through Fort Ticonderoga’s Center for Digital History.

In her presentation Pragya Sharma, from New Delhi, India, reviews Indian military literature to explore the materiality of the lota as an important possession that lasted a sepoy’s lifetime, how the vessel interacted in society, and recording narratives built around the humble utensil while crossing borders in the early 19th century.

Select the link below to learn more and to register today!

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/event/virtual-material-matters-its-in-the-details/

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Fort Ticonderoga has been awarded a Technical ...

Jan 10

Fort Ticonderoga has been awarded a Technical Assistance Grant from the Preservation League of New York State which will provide funding for the first phase in the preservation and stabilization of a significant piece of 18th-century architecture on Fort Ticonderoga’s historic landscape.

The $4,000 grant funding will support a building condition survey for the remains of a c. 1761 Smith’s Forge used by soldiers at Ticonderoga. The standing masonry wall is one of the few unrestored and untouched 18th-century architectural features still standing on the site that has miraculously withstood the test of time, despite the winter freezing and thawing cycles and the encroachment of vegetation.

Red more by visiting the link in our bio https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/fort-ticonderoga-receives-technical-assistance-grant-by-the-preservation-league-of-new-york-state/

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There is still time to register for our petticoat ...

Jan 10

There is still time to register for our petticoat workshop!

In this two-day, hands-on workshop, you will build your own linen and worsted women’s petticoat, and learn more about the construction of these essential garments, based on details from surviving examples.
We hope to see you January 21st and 22nd!

Register at the link in bio!

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/event/winter-workshop-series-women-petticoat/