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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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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
18
REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event “Necessary for the Rigour of the Climate”
Experience Fort Ticonderoga during its last winter with a British garrison. See how soldiers worked to repair this aging French & Indian fort; even as cold weather set in. From firewood to fur caps, examine British military preparations for winter serving in the colony of Canada.
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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
1
Winter Workshop Series: 1775 New York Cartridge Box
In this one-day workshop, build your own New York cartridge box, based on an example carried by a New York soldier who served in the 1775 campaign. Explore subtle regional differences in American cartridge boxes early in the Revolutionary War and learn basic techniques needed to complete your own cartridge boxes in time for exciting […]
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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
15
REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: His Majesty’s Garrison of Ticonderoga
How did soldiers and their families make a comfortable life here at this historic military post? See Fort Ticonderoga on the eve of the American Revolution as British soldiers and their families live in this peacetime fort on the frontier.
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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
1
Winter Workshop Series: Civilian Trousers
In this one-day workshop, begin your own pair of civilian trousers as you learn essential sewing techniques for crafting your own 250th portrayals. Simple straight-legged trousers were popular in New England and elsewhere as a lightweight summer garment, protection for nicer breeches, or as a warm outer layer in the colder months. Choose between natural […]
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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
15
REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: The Market for Produce Goods
Explore Fort Ticonderoga’s place within the communities along Lake Champlain. From markets to marriages, see the surprising connections between the 26th Regiment of Foot and American colonists as war loomed on the horizon.
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March
21
The 31st Annual Ticonderoga Ball in NYC
This elegant black tie affair supports Fort Ticonderoga’s mission of education and preservation. Enjoy cocktails, dinner, a live auction, and dancing with the Lester Lanin Orchestra at New York City’s historic Union League Club. Our online Exclusive Experiences Auction will be open to all, offering on-of-a-kind trips, tours, and adventures. For more information call 518-585-2821 […]
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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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Getting ready to travel or enjoy some much needed rest this holiday season? Why not take the time to learn a new topic to share with friends and family around the holiday dinner table or party!
“Micro-Course” videos taught by Fort Ticonderoga Curator Dr. Matthew Keagle are available for free online streaming. These Micro-Courses were developed based on a national survey conducted with university professors. Each course provides a brief video exploring a wide range of historical topics and approaches based on Fort Ticonderoga’s rich museum collections.
Currently, three Micro-Courses are available building on strengths of the museum collection and exhibitions at Fort Ticonderoga:
Setting the World on Fire: Firearms in the Atlantic World explores the complex and fascinating history of firearms in the 18th-century Atlantic World. This course uses Fort Ticonderoga’s extensive collection to reveal how new organizations of labor produced literally millions of weapons that shaped the world we still live with to this day.
Sources and Methods for Holistic History: look at how historians do the work of history. Using examples from Ticonderoga’s rich museum collection, we explore how different historical sources that tell us different aspects about the same topic, reminding students of history to be aware of the type of sources they encounter as well as what they record.
Service and Citizenship: This prompts students to think not only about the service of the militia historically, but what it tells us about the development of the American state and the evolving expectations and obligations of citizens.
Check out all of Fort Ticonderoga`s Micro Course offerings at the link in bio
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/learn-and-explore/educators/micro-courses/
On this #TradesTuesday, we celebrate the successful planking of a bateau in our #maritimetrades.
John Sparding was a carpenter engaged in building and repairing ships on Lake Champlain in the years before the revolution. His activities in the area have been documented going back to 1767. By 1775 Sparding petitioned the New York Provincial Congress on June 1st for the disruption of his business due to the war landing on his doorstep stating that for, “six years past, been at a great expense in providing boats and carriages for the ease and convenience of persons travelling this way with their baggage and effects, over the lake and carrying place, at an easy rate; likewise providing batteaus on Lake Champlain, for the conveniency of gentlemen and others travelling to Canada. The unhappy differences now subsisting between the Colonies and the Mother Country, have put a stop to any business your memorialist was formerly engaged in.” Many of Sparding`s bateau would be used by colonial forces during the early years of the war including those employed by Henry Knox to tranpsort captured cannons on the first leg of their journey to Boston.
See our bateau in action as we recreate the exciting moments of 1775 #OTD in our #REALTIMEREVOLUTION daily programs and events!
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/experience/featured-events/
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! In today’s edition, we present something slightly different: #MapMonday. Some maps are hand-drawn original manuscripts, while others are printed copies reproduced from engravings. All of them have stories to tell.
Today’s map, part of the Robert Nittolo Collection, is MS.7243.5. The map, titled “Position of the Detachment under Lieut’t Col’l Baum, at Walmscock near Bennington”, shows the position of British and American troops at the start of the August 16, 1777 Battle of Bennington. The British forces, part of General John Burgoyne’s army, were composed of a mixture of British, German, Canadian, American Loyalist, and Haudenosaunee troops. The detachment, led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, had been sent by Burgoyne to raid an American supply depot in Bennington, VT and refresh the British army’s dwindling supplies. Ten miles away from Bennington, in Walloomsac, NY, Baum’s roughly 1,200 troops were met by a body of around 2,500 American militia led by General John Stark. Stark’s American troops defeated Baum’s forces, capturing most of them and killing Baum. One of the British soldiers captured was Lieutenant Desmaretz Durnford, creator of this map. Durnford was a military engineer who had been part of the British Corps of Engineers since at least 1770. His firsthand view of the battle and the landscape on which it took place allowed him to draw a detailed map showing the specific positions of each British unit, including German grenadiers and dragoons, rangers, and Loyalist volunteers. The American troops are listed only as “Bodies of the Enemy”. By 1780, Durnford’s hand-drawn original had made its way to London, where it was used as the basis for this engraving by London printer and cartographer William Faden. Durnford himself was also back in England by this time, having been released and exchanged in April 1778. He returned to British army service and served until his death in 1781 on a failed expedition to the Cape of Good Hope.
This document can be found on our online database in the link in bio. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/31040
On #NationalHorseDay, we recognize the contribution horses made in #FortTiconderoga`s history, whether hauling vehicles carrying soldiers and officers alike. We also celebrate the horses who help us bring these epic stories from the past to life today!
Happy #NationalCocoaDay from #FortTiconderoga! British & American soldiers in the #RevolutionaryWar and the #FrenchandIndianWar enjoyed chocolate whenever they could.
