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Daily Visitation: May 4-Oct. 27, 2024 | 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 2024! 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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October
19
Girl Scout Day
Scouts 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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October
19
Bon Voyage Cruise on Lake Champlain
SOLD OUT! Join 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. […]
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October
20
Virtual Author Series featuring Michael E. Shay
The 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 Israel Putnam, a larger-than-life general, a gregarious tavern keeper and […]
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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
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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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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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 salute the routine recycling of clothing that was part of British Army practice in 1774. Whether infantry or cavalry, each British soldier was to have a foraging or fatigue cap. Captain Bennet Cuthbertson, in his 1768, A System of Military Oeconomy for a Battalion of Infantry observed, "Every soldier should be provided with a red cap, lined with coarse linen, and turned up in the front, by a small, stiff flap of the facings of the Regiment, with an occasional falling cape, to defend and cover the neck from the extremities of violent weather: when the cloathing is entirely finished every year, they can be easily made up from the remains of the old cloth, and will be found of infinite use..."
Oct 15
Fort Ticonderoga recently announced the creation of the Northern Department, a major new tourism initiative connecting partners in New York, Vermont, and Canada, including Tribal partnerships. This new tourism initiative, as part of America’s 250th national commemoration, is being celebrated from 2025-2027. The historic Northern Department was created by Continental authorities in 1775 and was established to manage the war against the British in the vast northern part of New York, New England, and Canada.
Today, this initiative is inspired by the region’s defining role in the War for American’s Independence from the rivers, lakes, and mountains between Saratoga and Montreal, the Northern Department will promote historic sites and museums during the commemorative period.
A new interactive website highlights 18 historic destinations across New York, Vermont, Québec, and tribal nations connected to the American Revolution. Additionally, Northern Department brochures are available at the partnering historic sites and museums. The Northern Department will also be featured in an upcoming video production in 2025 and social media channels during the 250th commemorative period, which will place the region at the center of the conflict which shaped our nation. Visit the website here: https://northerndepartment.org/.
READ MORE: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/fort-ticonderoga-launches-major-new-tourism-initiative-for-americas-250th/
Oct 15
Happy #ManuscriptTUESDAY! While major military activity around Lake Champlain and Lake George came to an end at the close of the Saratoga Campaign in 1777, that did not mean that the area was safe. Northern New York was still the American frontier, sharing its border with British Canada. The years after 1777 saw a series of raids and skirmishes across New York’s northern frontier. In response to this threat, the American army sent small groups of soldiers to garrison forts in the Lake George area, including Fort George, Fort Edward, and Fort Anne.
Today’s document, 2003.0074.006, a letter from Fort Edward’s commander Colonel Henry Livingston dated October 12, 1780, is a report from the middle of a British raid. Fort George, he writes, “surrendered yesterday… to Eigh[t] Hundred British troops and two Hund’d Indians and two Comp’y of Torys.” After hearing of a party of about 25 British soldiers in the woods near the fort, its commander, “immaging that the Party consisting of only a small scout of the Enemy[,] sent out all his Garrison except fourteen men”. The skirmish turned into a rout when more British troops arrived, and the 14 men remaining in the fort could not hold off the British siege. The tiny garrison at Fort Anne, meanwhile, surrendered without firing a shot. Livingston’s Fort Edward, though, was left untouched, to his confusion: “by which means they avoided me I cannot conjecture Unless it was owing to a man that was going up the very morning that the Enemy took Fort Ann by whom I wrote to Capt Sherwood that I was very strong and that I would support him in case of attack[,] expecting the Enemy would take the man.” In reality, the garrison consisted of only 60 militiamen.
Whether Fort Edward was spared because of Livingston’s ruse or because it was not deemed important enough to attack, it escaped unscathed; the rest of the area was not so lucky. Fort George and Fort Anne were both burned, and so were many of the area’s farms, forcing their residents to flee south until the war ended.
This document can be found on our online database in the link in bio. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault
Oct 15
September 2, 1774 General Orders for the British Army in America required regiments to plan ahead for winter clothing.
"The Regiments will look out for leggings and mittens, against the severity of the winter, the General gives them this timely notice, that they may send to New York or Philadelphia for them if necessary."
Following General Thomas Gage`s orders, we have our wool leggings ready for the crisp #fall days ahead!
Oct 11
