Fort Ticonderoga is now in Winter Quarters!
From November through April, Fort Ticonderoga is open for special living history events, engaging seminars, specialty programs, behind-the-scenes VIP Tours, and hands-on workshops.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance will be open for visitation Tuesday-Sunday May 4 - October 27, 2024!
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Fort Fever Series featuring Cameron Green
April 24, 2024 •The Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Fort Ticonderoga Director of Interpretation, Cameron Green, and explore the community that developed around Ticonderoga before the American Revolution. Discover what we know about these early settlers and how the American War for Independence effected their livelihood. Your participation in this […]
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Living History Event: “For the Good of the King’s Service”
May 4, 2024 - May 5, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this exciting two-day living history event, 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, with peacetime activities like gardening, shoemaking, tailoring, and boatbuilding. This […]
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Annual History Conference for Educators
May 17, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaThis 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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Twenty-Eighth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War
May 17, 2024 - May 19, 2024 • HybridFort 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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Memorial Day Weekend Commemoration
May 25, 2024 - May 26, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaJoin Fort Ticonderoga to pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives in service to their country during the American Revolution. Fort Ticonderoga will pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives in service to their country during the American Revolution. Discover the story of the American Army in […]
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Annual Spring King’s Garden Plant Sale
June 8, 2024 • Kings GardenAs 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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Virtual Author Series featuring Theodore Corbett
June 9, 2024 • VirtualThe 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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Living History Event: Scots Day
June 15, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaThis 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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Independence Day Weekend 1777
July 4, 2024 - July 7, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaCelebrate freedom by exploring the year 1777 when America was consumed in the labor of liberty. Participate in the fight for freedom when the Northern Department of the Continental Army fought to keep the great fortress of Ticonderoga from falling into British control. Take the experience onto the water aboard the recreated 1920s tour boat […]
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Battle Reenactment: 1759 Siege of Carillon
July 20, 2024 - July 21, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this exciting two-day battle reenactment, discover the last days of Fort Carillon (later named Ticonderoga), as 400 French soldiers faced an 11,000-man British Army! With different battle scenarios and living history vignettes each day, explore the science of siege craft, and the power of artillery–on land and water–as General Jeffrey Amherst sought to take […]
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Living History Event: The Sound of 1776 Two-Day Event!
July 27, 2024 - July 28, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaHear the rousing sounds of the Fifes & Drums, which hoisted the spirits of an American Army in 1776! Through musical concerts, living history vignettes and weapon demonstrations discover the story of the Northern Continental Army, which rebuilt itself at Ticonderoga beginning in July 1776. See rebellion transform into a war for independence as the […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Steven Park
July 28, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Between the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Boston Tea Party in 1773—a period historians refer to as “the lull”—a group of prominent Rhode Islanders rowed out to His Majesty’s schooner Gaspee,which had run aground six miles south of Providence […]
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The Annual King’s Garden Party
August 3, 2024 • Kings GardenJoin us in the King’s Garden for the party of the summer featuring cocktails, live music, delicious bites, spirited best-of competition, Silent & Exclusive Experiences auctions…and elegance among the blooms. For tickets or more information please visit our event site, call 518-585-2821 or email info@fort-ticonderoga.org
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Virtual Author Series featuring Abby Chandler
August 11, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Seized with the Temper of the Times tells the story of the Stamp Act crisis and the Regulator Rebellion, two under examined political rebellions from the decade prior to the American Revolution. The questions about the intersecting roles of […]
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Homeschool Day
September 6, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaSpend a day at Fort Ticonderoga and participate in a series of programs designed for homeschool families! Discover Ticonderoga’s epic history through historic trades and soldiers’ life activities, participate in guided tours and thrilling demonstrations, and explore the historic site. Explore the beauty of the King’s Garden and create your special memories with coloring kits […]
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Annual Fall King’s Garden Plant Sale
September 7, 2024 • Kings GardenHelp Fort Ticonderoga with the historic garden’s stewardship and take home your living legacy from the walled King’s Garden! Among a variety of options, purchase your own beautiful and historic pre-potted King’s Garden flowers or dig your own selection with the guidance of our experienced garden staff. Favorite divisions and whole plans will be available […]
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Battle Reenactment: 1777 Brown’s Raid
September 14, 2024 - September 15, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaJoin Fort Ticonderoga for an exciting two-day battle re-enactment highlighting the epic 1777 Brown’s Raid! An attack led by patriot Colonel John Brown will take British troops garrisoning Fort Ticonderoga by surprise 247 years later during the upcoming real-life action adventure at Fort Ticonderoga.
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Twentieth Annual Seminar on the American Revolution
September 20, 2024 - September 22, 2024 • HybridThis annual premier conference focused on the military, political, social, and material culture of the American Revolution regularly features scholars from across North America and beyond. Attendees can participate in person or join the conference from home via the Fort Ticonderoga Center for Digital History. Seminar Schedule Friday, September 20, 2024 8:00am-4:00pm “In the Footsteps […]
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Heritage, Harvest, and Horse Festival
October 5, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaFort Ticonderoga, surrounded by magnificent autumn backdrops of the Adirondacks and Green Mountains will present the Annual Heritage, Harvest, & Horse Festival on October 5, 2024. The full day of autumn fun will be set in the midst of the King’s Garden heirloom apple trees and the beautiful landscape of the mountains and Lake Champlain. […]
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Girl Scout Day
October 19, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaScouts will participate in interactive and immersive programs, and explore the historic site, including the King’s Garden, Carillon Battlefield Hiking Trail, and the Heroic Corn Maze with a new 2024 design! Special guided tours and demonstrations will immerse scouts and adults in Fort Ticonderoga’s layer of epic history. The visit will include historic trades’ shops, […]
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Bon Voyage Cruise on Lake Champlain
October 19, 2024 • Carillon Boat Dock located at Fort TiconderogaJoin Fort Ticonderoga for its annual Bon Voyage Cruise on Lake Champlain! Savor the fall scenic beauty and enjoy the captivating narration of historic highlights aboard the 60 ft Carillon tour boat. Enjoy the spectacular fall foliage aboard the Carillon on its final cruise as it charts its course south for the winter. Discover the […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Michael E. Shay
October 20, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In The Whites of Their Eyes: The Life of Revolutionary War Hero Israel Putnam from Rogers’ Rangers to Bunker Hill, author Michael Shay recounts the life and times of Isreal Putnam, a larger-than-life general, a gregarious tavern keeper and […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring John William Nelson
November 3, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent, author John William Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago’s portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous […]
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Living History Event: “The Enemy Are Refortifying Ticonderoga”
November 9, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaThis living history event explores British and American loyalist soldiers launching one last campaign to Ticonderoga in the fall of 1781. Highlighted programming throughout the day features the encampment of soldiers, sailors, and their eventual departure back north. Discover the network of scouts and spies through which the British government, the independent state of Vermont, […]
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Winter Workshop Series: Quilted Petticoats
November 16, 2024 - November 17, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day workshop, examine details from surviving quilted petticoats, as well as period images and descriptions of these surprisingly common women’s garments. Begin your own worsted wool quilted petticoat, with your own period quilting pattern to secure the warm woolen batting that made these so popular for women in the 18th century.
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Living History Event: “To Render This Place as Tenable as Possible”
December 7, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaThe Continental Army at Ticonderoga gave hope to this new nation with their victory over the British Army on October 28, 1776, beginning their long watch over the winter to come. In this one-day living history event, witness soldiers’ preparations to hold the line of liberty, maintaining their discipline through the hardships of winter and […]
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Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details
January 25, 2025 • ZoomThe 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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Virtual Author Series featuring J. L. Bell
February 9, 2025 • VirtualThe 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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Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium
April 5, 2025 • HybridThe King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga presents the Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium on Saturday, April 5, 2025. This program features practical strategies for expanding an improving your garden and landscape. We invite you to join us, whether you are an experiences gardener or just getting started, for helpful insights from garden experts who […]
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Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War
May 16, 2025 - May 18, 2025 • HybridFort Ticonderoga presents the Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War May 16-18, 2025. Since its beginning in 1996, the War College has become the premier venue for historians on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across North America and Europe. Fort Ticonderoga […]