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Daily Visitation: May 3-Oct. 26, 2025 | Tues-Sun | 9:30am-5pm
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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November
3
Virtual Author Series featuring John William Nelson
The 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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November
9
Living History Event: “The Enemy Are Refortifying Ticonderoga”
This 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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November
16–17
Winter Workshop Series: Quilted Petticoats
In 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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December
7
Living History Event: “To Render This Place as Tenable as Possible”
The 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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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
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
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
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
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
26
Fort Fever Series featuring Cameron Green
The Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Fort Ticonderoga’s Director of Interpretation Cameron Green and explore Major General Philip Schuyler’s role as one of Continental Congress’ Commissioners of Indian Affairs. Discover the importance of diplomacy with the neighboring Native American nations, beginning in the earliest days of the […]
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April
5
Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium
The 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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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 are sailing our bateau. This sailing rig employs a spritsail--a type of sail particularly suited for flat bottomed boats--held aloft by a `sprit` supported by a `snotter` hung from the mast. Famously used by barges on the Thames, both military and civilian bateaux used spritsails like these to traverse the waters of Lake Champlain in the 18th century... unless there was no wind.
Oct 29
Join Fort Ticonderoga for a one-day living history event on Saturday, November 9th and explore how British soldiers and loyalists engaged in their final campaign at Ticonderoga in the fall of 1781. Discover how this feign of British military force was to threaten the United States, while supporting a loyalist Vermont.
Highlighted programming throughout the day uncovers the complexities of refugees of the new United States seeking security within British territory. Explore the trades and tools employed by soldiers and sailors to make and mend anything from sails to entire barracks. Go beyond loading and firing to discuss tactical adaptations employed by the British Army as they raided along the northern frontier between the United States and Canada. See how officers and soldiers alike encamped in and around Fort Ticonderoga, which had already been in runs for nearly four years.
LEARN MORE: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/fort-ticonderoga-features-lively-living-history-event-november-9th/
#LifeLongLearning #LivingHistoryEvent #WinterQuarters #FamilyFun #ADK
Oct 28
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Officers and enlisted men alike were captured by enemy forces during 18th-century warfare, but once in the enemy’s power, their treatment was often very different. Enlisted men were generally treated worse, sometimes kept in unhealthy conditions and allowed very little freedom. Officers, however, were often treated respectfully, given more freedom, and sometimes even paroled, allowed to return home as long as they did not return to army service. The social element that made this system possible was honor: officers were perceived as gentlemen and thus honorable men. This honor would prevent them from breaking their word, so if they made a promise as a condition of their freedom, it was expected that they would keep it.
The workings of this system can be seen in today’s document, MS.1912, which begins the story of the parole of Colonel Peter Schuyler. Schuyler led the New Jersey provincial regiment known as the Jersey Blues, fighting for the British against French forces as early as 1746. He was captured by the French at the 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego and imprisoned in Montreal. In October 1757, he was given leave to return home and try to arrange a prisoner exchange that could give him his freedom. MS.1912, a pass signed by the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor-general of Canada, gives the terms of Schuyler’s parole. Schuyler promised to return to Fort Carillon (now Ticonderoga) on May 10, 1758, regardless of the state of his affairs at home. In return, he would be escorted by soldiers to Fort Lydius (now Fort Edward), along with an enslaved man, his secretary, and another servant. Once at Fort Lydius, they could go where they wished until May 10, when they were expected back. Schuyler’s attempts to arrange an exchange while in New Jersey were unsuccessful, but he fulfilled his promise, returning in May to Carillon and from there to captivity in Montreal. Watch this space next week to learn more about Schuyler’s honorable return to captivity and what happened to him next.
This document can be found on our online database in the link below. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/29951
Oct 28
In our #HistoricTrades, four weeks of learning and shoemaking work culminated in this pair of 18th-century boots. Our Artificer Interpreters learn period skills, while making the actual clothing, footwear, & equipment we use at #FortTiconderoga. See these boots in action in our #REALTIMEREVOLUTION programs!
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/real-time-revolution/
Oct 27
The Fort Ticonderoga Association, the non-profit educational organization which owns and operates the National Historic Landmark Fort Ticonderoga, is pleased to announce that Roy Davis has been elected as the incoming chair of its Board of Trustees. His service as chair will commence on January 1, 2025. He succeeds Sanford Morhouse, who has served as board chair since 2011 and who will serve as Trustee Emeritus beginning in 2025.
Roy Davis, a former senior executive with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has served as a trustee since 2023. Mr. Davis chaired Fort Ticonderoga’s Strategic Planning committee in 2024, which shaped the institution’s vision and plans through 2030. During his tenure, Davis will lead Fort Ticonderoga’s continued growth as a national leader in Early American History and significantly expand Fort Ticonderoga’s digital educational reach, while investing in Fort Ticonderoga’s preservation efforts and enhanced on-site experiences. His tenure will coincide with America’s national 250th commemoration. Major initiatives at Fort Ticonderoga during this period include new exhibitions, signature events, scholarship, research, and academic programs, as well as expanded museum and collection storage facilities.
READ MORE: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/the-fort-ticonderoga-association-announces-the-election-of-a-new-chair-of-the-board-of-trustees/
Oct 24
On #TradesTuesday were finishing a boot! Here we`re trimming the sole of a boot, before sewing on layers of leather for the heel. In 1774 the British Army issued boots to their cavalry, and only for service on horseback. By regulation each troop--of roughly 30-50, cavalrymen--were to replace 4 pairs of these expensive boots per year. Accordingly, foot soldiers and cavalry alike needed two pairs of shoes annually for their duties on foot. Watch for these boots on mounted officers in #REALTIMEREVOLUTION programs as we recreate dramatic moments of the #RevolutionaryWar!
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Oct 22
