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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.
EXPLORE THE 6-ACRE HEROIC CORN MAZE!
Share time with family and friends while exploring a unique corn maze located on the shores of Lake Champlain at Fort Ticonderoga, with a NEW DESIGN for 2025! Getting lost in this life-size puzzle is part of the fun as you look for history clues among towering stalks of corn! Find clues connected to our story as you navigate the maze!
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January
12
Virtual Author Series featuring Serena Zabin
The 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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January
18
REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event “Necessary for the Rigour of the Climate”
Experience Fort Ticonderoga during its last winter with a British garrison. See how soldiers worked to repair this aging French & Indian fort; even as cold weather set in. From firewood to fur caps, examine British military preparations for winter serving in the colony of Canada.
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January
22
Fort Fever Series featuring Miranda Peters & Kate Tardiff
The Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Fort Ticonderoga’s Vice President of Collections Miranda Peters and Project Archivist Kate Tardiff for an exclusive inside look at the exciting work happening to document, preserve, and share the museum’s remarkable collections. Participants will enjoy the first opportunity to see staff […]
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January
25
Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details
The 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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February
1
Winter Workshop Series: 1775 New York Cartridge Box
In this one-day workshop, build your own New York cartridge box, based on an example carried by a New York soldier who served in the 1775 campaign. Explore subtle regional differences in American cartridge boxes early in the Revolutionary War and learn basic techniques needed to complete your own cartridge boxes in time for exciting […]
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February
9
Virtual Author Series featuring J. L. Bell
The 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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February
15
REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: His Majesty’s Garrison of Ticonderoga
How did soldiers and their families make a comfortable life here at this historic military post? See Fort Ticonderoga on the eve of the American Revolution as British soldiers and their families live in this peacetime fort on the frontier.
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February
26
Fort Fever Series featuring Stuart Lilie
The Fort Fever Series are a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Vice President of Public History, Stuart Lilie, to examine the broader expedition to capture Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775, as we prepare for the upcoming 250th Anniversary REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ reenactment of this first victory of the Revolutionary War. Discover […]
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March
1
Winter Workshop Series: Civilian Trousers
In this one-day workshop, begin your own pair of civilian trousers as you learn essential sewing techniques for crafting your own 250th portrayals. Simple straight-legged trousers were popular in New England and elsewhere as a lightweight summer garment, protection for nicer breeches, or as a warm outer layer in the colder months. Choose between natural […]
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March
9
Virtual Author Series featuring Timothy Symington
The 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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March
15
REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: The Market for Produce Goods
Explore Fort Ticonderoga’s place within the communities along Lake Champlain. From markets to marriages, see the surprising connections between the 26th Regiment of Foot and American colonists as war loomed on the horizon.
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March
21
The 31st Annual Ticonderoga Ball in NYC
This elegant black tie affair supports Fort Ticonderoga’s mission of education and preservation. Enjoy cocktails, dinner, a live auction, and dancing with the Lester Lanin Orchestra at New York City’s historic Union League Club. Our online Exclusive Experiences Auction will be open to all, offering on-of-a-kind trips, tours, and adventures. For more information call 518-585-2821 […]
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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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On this #TradesTuesday, we salute the soldiers of the Continental Army who learned the trade of being a soldier, as the cause of Independence faced a crisis in 1776. The successful defense of Ticonderoga on October 28, 1776, was joyously welcome news for the Continental Congress, amid setback with Washington`s army. Thomas Paine`s, The Crisis encapsulated the challenges of the American cause in that moment and was widely read by soldiers and civilians alike. #HistoricTrades #RevolutionaryWar
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! The last major battle of the Revolutionary War, the Siege of Yorktown, ended in October 1781, but the Continental Army continued in service for two and a half more years. While the atmosphere in late-war garrisons was different than in the war’s early days, some elements of daily life in the army were still the same. For instance, soldiers got up to as much mischief as they ever had.
Today’s document, MS.7380, part of the Robert Nittolo Collection, tells the story of two troublemaking soldiers from the 2nd Connecticut Regiment. The document, likely from December 1782 or January 1783, is a set of regimental orders describing a court-martial, a military court where soldiers were tried. In this court-martial, Corporal Asa Baker was tried for “breaking open the Comisary’s Store & stealing a quantity of Rum, or Suffering it to be done [while] he had charge of the Guard”. Baker was acquitted by the court, which determined that the rum was stolen while he was on guard but without his knowledge, but in an unusual move, the regiment’s lieutenant colonel, Jonathan Johnson, “disapprove[d] the acquittal”. As it turned out, Isaac Welden, a witness at the trial, had lied on the stand but later confessed that he was the rum thief. In his confession, Welden admitted that he had sold some stolen rum to Baker and the rest of the guard. In Baker’s trial testimony, he had lied about the origin of that rum, stating that he obtained it from a “Mr. Lancaster”. Baker’s lie, and the fact that he had purchased rum from the real thief, made it clear that he knew more about the theft than he had admitted. While the trial was over, Johnson exercised his power to punish both culprits. Corporal Baker was reduced to the rank of private. Welden, “in consequence of [his] Infamous conduct… shall not be considered in future worthy of giving his Evidence before a Regimental Court Martial”. In a punishment that likely stung even more, the cost of the stolen rum was deducted from Welden’s back pay.
This document can be found on our online database in the link below. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/31184
Thank you to everyone that came out to make our December event “To render this place as tenable as possible” a success.
Where’s our Curator?
For the past 2 weeks the Curator’s desk has been pretty quiet—because he’s been in the archives! Thanks the generous support of the American Trust for the British Library, Dr. Matthew Keagle has been able to conduct extensive research in the British Library in London. Focusing heavily on the period just prior to the American Revolution, this work will help us better understand and interpret the world of Ticonderoga’s last British garrison. The paper trail left by British Army officers and their superiors is one of the best sources for information on Ticonderoga on the eve of Revolution.
Visit us this year to see new research in action through programs, exhibitions, and special events as part of #REALTIMEREVOLUTION
HOT OFF THE PRESS! Visit Fort Ticonderoga`s online Museum Store to get your copy of the 2024 Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum!
This issue of The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum includes articles about Revolutionary spies across Long Island Sound, the story of Simeon Hix (a veteran of the Battle of Bennington), and a transcription of the Ensign William Johnson Journal from the British army in the Champlain Valley in 1776.
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