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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Winter Workshop Series: Men’s & Women’s Cloaks
December 2, 2023 • Fort TiconderogaIn this one-day workshop, build one of your choice of outwear; women’s cloak, sentry’s cloak, or horseman’s cloak. Explore some of the common details of these different forms of semi-fitted foul-weather wear. This workshop includes lunch, materials, sewing tools, and notions.
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Living History Event: The Noble Train Begins
December 16, 2023 • Fort TiconderogaJoin Fort Ticonderoga for a one-day living history event and relive Henry Knox’s epic feat as he prepared to move massive cannon from Ticonderoga to Boston to force the British evacuation in 1776. Watch as soldiers work as carpenters to maintain Ticonderoga. Witness the raw power of oxen as these thousand pound animals pull sleds […]
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Living History Event: 1774 His Majesty’s Garrison of Ticonderoga
January 13, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaSee 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 here. Discover how soldiers and their families made a comfortable life here at this historic military post.
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Virtual Author Series featuring David Price
January 14, 2024 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The Battle of Harlem Heights is a largely unappreciated milestone in American military history. It was an encounter on upper Manhattan Island on September 16, 1776, that marked the first successful battlefield outcome achieved by George Washington’s troops in […]
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Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details
January 20, 2024 • ZoomThe Thirteenth Annual “Material Matters: It’s in the Details” conference takes place online on January 20, 2024. 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 Webinars. A laptop, tablet, or smartphone is […]
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Fort Fever Series featuring Stuart Lilie
January 24, 2024 •The Fort Fever Series are a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Stuart Lilie, Vice President of Public History, to explore the world and demise of horse, the true cavalry in the 18th-century British Army. Discover this unique shift in British mounted soldiers, its reverberations in military fashion, arms, and the lexicon of cavalry across the Atlantic […]
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Winter Workshop Series: British Trousers & American Overalls
January 27, 2024 - January 28, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day workshop, build a pair of fitted linen trousers used by the British Army and its German Auxiliaries, as well as many Continental Army units from 1777 onward. Stout linen sheeting, sheeting, and tent linen are available for various British Army portrayals. Striped linen ticking is available for Brunswick soldiers serving in 1777. […]
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Winter Workshop Series: 1770s Straight-bodied Coats
February 10, 2024 - February 11, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day workshop, examine details from surviving 1770s civilian coats, cutting, and begin assembly of your own. Practical wool coats that buttoned all the way down to the waist remained popular even as fashionable coats increasingly cut away along the front. Build one of these lined wool coats that were a mainstay of dress […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Andrew Wehrman
February 11, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution is a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States. […]
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Living History Event: 1776 Winter at Ticonderoga
February 17, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaSoldiers at Ticonderoga in February 1776 struggled to maintain their vital link in the supply chain that kept an American Army alive at the gates of Quebec City. In this one-day living history event, see how soldiers and teamsters kept sleds running over the ice of Lake Champlain to feed and clothe the Continental Army […]
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Fort Fever Series featuring Dr. Matthew Keagle
February 28, 2024 •The Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Dr. Matthew Keagle, Fort Ticonderoga Curator, to preview the 2024 special exhibition highlighting “The Power of Place.” The American Revolution and the War of Independence played out across a vast geography. The Revolution made an impact in all corners of the […]
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North Country History Day
March 2, 2024 •Fort Ticonderoga coordinates North Country History Day, serving students in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, St. Lawrence, and Warren counties in New York State. The 2024 North Country History Day Regional Contest will take place Saturday, March 2 in the Mars Education Center at Fort Ticonderoga. Registration will open in early January 2024 with a registration […]
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Battle Reenactment: 1759 Battle on Snowshoes
March 9, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaExperience the third Battle on Snowshoes as Major Robert Rogers’ and his Rangers go on “A Grand Scout” before the 1759 campaign season! During this epic reenactment, visit the French garrison of Fort Carillon (later named Ticonderoga) in the middle of the winter and tour pickets of British rangers, veterans of raids, ambushes, and scouts […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Jack Kelly
March 10, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In his new book God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man, author Jack Kelly brings the smell of gunpowder to every page in this riveting account of Benedict Arnold’s military career. Kelly’s account of […]
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Winter Workshop Series: Brunswick & Hessian Regimental Coats
March 16, 2024 - March 17, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day workshop, learn the latest research on Brunswick and Hessian enlisted regimental coats as you build your own. Discover the unique details and differences between different states’ and regiments’ uniforms. This workshop is BYOL — bring your own lace– due to the specificity of these trimmings. Most regimental and campaign details can be […]
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The 30th Annual Ticonderoga Ball
March 22, 2024 • 38 E 37th St New York NY 10016This stunning black tie affair supports Fort Ticonderoga’s mission to preserve, educate, and provoke an active discussion about the past and its importance to present and future generations. Enjoy dinner, a live auction, and dancing to the Lester Lanin Orchestra at the elegant Union League Club in New York City. For more information call 518-585-2821 […]
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Fort Fever Series featuring Tabitha Hubbard
March 27, 2024 • ZoomThe Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Fort Ticonderoga Collections Manager, Tabitha Hubbard, as she highlights the incredible strides Collections staff have made in documenting, preserving, and making accessible Ticonderoga’s world-class collections. In the last few years, the Collections Department has made momentous progress in cataloging, inventorying, and […]
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Twelfth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium
April 6, 2024 • HybridThe King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga presents the Twelfth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium on Saturday, April 6, 2024. 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 […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Jim Piecuch
April 14, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In South Carolina Provincials: Loyalists in British Service during the American Revolution, historian Jim Piecuch provides the first comprehensive history of those South Carolinians who took up arms to assist the British during their attempt to quell the rebellion in […]
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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, as we look forward to the 2024 Campaign Season at Fort Ticonderoga! This year, we will be launching REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ as our public history program highlights the year 1774 to begin commemorating the […]
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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 day-long 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 […]
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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, the War College has become a top venue for historians on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across North […]
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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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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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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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Twentieth Annual Seminar on the American Revolution
September 20, 2024 - September 22, 2024 • HybridFort Ticonderoga seeks proposals for papers broadly addressing the period of the War for American Independence with a focus on “The Power of Place” for its Twentieth Annual Seminar on the American Revolution to be held September 20-22, 2024. Submissions are due October 31, 2023. See the Call for Papers link below. This annual premier […]
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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 […]
