Daily Programs, Boat Tours & Outdoor Exploration
This year, Fort Ticonderoga debuts a new chapter in its story. Discover innovative storytelling on a grand scale with guided tours, witness thrilling weapons demonstrations, explore endless outdoor activities, and see the British-occupied fort in the years just before the American Revolution.
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Specialty Tour: Premium Pavilion Tour
October 3, 2023 • The PavilionDelve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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Girl Scout Day
October 14, 2023 • 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 2023 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 14, 2023 • 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 Brady J. Crytzer
October 22, 2023 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. In The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis, historian Brady J. Crytzer takes the reader on a journey through Western Pennsylvania following the routes of both the rebels and the United States Army to place this important event into context for […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Eugene Procknow
November 5, 2023 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. William Hunter, the son of a Revolutionary War British soldier, witnessed the terrors of combat and capture and penned the only surviving Revolutionary account written by a child of a British soldier. Remarkably, Hunter immigrated to America and became a gutsy Kentucky newspaper […]
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Living History Event: 1775 British Prisoners of War
November 11, 2023 •In this one-day living history event, discover the stories of captured British soldiers and their families as they were escorted through Ticonderoga as prisoners of war. Following American victories at forts along the Richelieu River in the fall of 1775, those British soldiers and their families that were unlucky enough to be captured faced an […]
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Winter Workshop Series: Regimental Coats
November 18, 2023 - November 19, 2023 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day hands-on workshop, learn the latest research on Revolutionary War American enlisted regimental coats as you build your own. Discover original construction details and efficiencies to sew these mass-produced garments. This workshop is BYOB&L–Bring Your Own Buttons and Lace–due to the specificity of these trimmings. Most regimental & campaign details can be accommodated […]
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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 Fort Ticonderoga’s 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 the quest for independence […]
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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: “…modern Dragoons are become better Horse”
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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Virtual Author Series featuring Andrew Wehrman
February 11, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s 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. In The Contagion of […]
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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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Virtual Author Series featuring Jack Kelly
March 10, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s 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 Arnold’s brilliant battles at […]
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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 Fort Ticonderoga’s 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 the South. Based on […]
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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 Fort Ticonderoga’s 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 that sought independence. Although […]
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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 Fort Ticonderoga’s 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 while on an anti-smuggling […]
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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 Fort Ticonderoga’s 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 local and imperial/federal interests […]
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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 […]
