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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
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
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
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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During this Saturday`s living history event, explore how British soldiers and loyalists prepared for one last campaign launched from Ticonderoga in the fall of 1781. Watch as cattle work to draw heavy provisions and guns. Meet with 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. How long will the British Army stay at Ticonderoga? And will they move further into New York, or retreat back north?
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/living-history-event-the-enemy-are-refortifying-ticonderoga/
#LivingHistory #LifeLongLearning #WinterQuarters
Nov 6
On #TradesTuesday this week we`re celebrating the brightly colored world of women`s shoes! Unlike the vast majority of men`s shoes, which had black leather on top, women`s shoemakers used a host of colorful leathers, woolens, and silks. An August 9, 1777 advertisement in the Providence Gazette listed, "a Pair of green Sattin Shoes," among the items stolen from a Cranston, RI widow. Colorful worsted wool shoes weren`t for the elite; "an indented Irish Servant Girl, named Mary Delaney," had, "a Pair of red Calimanco Shoes," according to a September 9, 1765, runaway advertisement in The New York Mercury.
Nov 5
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Last week we shared the story of Colonel Peter Schuyler, the New Jersey provincial officer who kept his word of honor and returned to captivity. Schuyler was captured by the French at the 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego and held in Montreal; he was allowed to return home on parole in October 1757 on the provision that he would return to French custody the next May, a promise he kept.
Today’s manuscript, 2000.0034.001, continues Schuyler’s story. 2000.0034.001 is a letter from British general James Abercromby to Schuyler in Montreal, dated August 12, 1758. One month before, Abercromby had faced a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Marquis de Montcalm and his French troops at the Battle of Carillon. Despite this, Abercromby’s letter shows great respect to the officials whose general had just beaten him. “I learnt with great satisfaction by your Letter… the Kind Reception and Treatment you have met with from the Marquis de Vaudreuil, and the other Gentlemen at Montreal”, Abercromby tells Schuyler. “I expected no otherwise from their known Civility, which you may assure them I shall not fail to return, to those of their Troops which the Fate of War has put into my Custody”. Abercromby authorizes Schuyler to arrange prisoner exchanges that could free him while in Montreal, negotiating with Vaudreuil, governor-general of New France. He provides instructions, placing restrictions on the terms Schuyler can agree to but trusting that “his Excellency will not ask more than you can reasonably give”. Even though their nations were at war and their armies were killing each other, higher-ups on both sides treated their opposite numbers as gentlemen who would be fair and keep their promises. This way of relating paid off, at least for officers. Schuyler was exchanged later that year after the Battle of Fort Frontenac gave the British more French prisoners to use as bargaining chips. He returned to the battlefield in 1759 and 1760 before retiring to New Jersey, where he died in 1762.
This document can be found on our online database in the link below. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/29403
Nov 4
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.
Within this last British campaign on Lake Champlain, experience the military aspect of negotiating national boundaries and peace at the end of the Revolutionary War. This untold story explains how the legacy of this war connects with us today.
Bring your family along to experience this exciting living history event during Fort Ticonderoga’s new schedule of programs during Winter Quarters season. From now through April, visitors will be immersed in a more intimate experience at Fort Ticonderoga. From lively living history events, engaging seminars, specialty programs, and hands-on workshops, explore Fort Ticonderoga during what was traditionally the “Winter Quarters” season for armies of the 18th century.
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/living-history-event-the-enemy-are-refortifying-ticonderoga/
#WinterQuarters #LivingHistory #LifeLongLearning
Nov 3
November is Native American Heritage Month--a time to honor the history, culture, and contributions of Indigenous people.
This month, we invite you to explore the vital work of our Native American partners in the Northern Department--which proudly spotlights Revolutionary historic sites across New York, Vermont, and Québec.
Visit the Northern Department website at the link in our bio to learn more about the Iroquois Museum, Akwesasne Cultural Center, and Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center, each dedicated to preserving and sharing Haudenosaunee history and culture.
https://northerndepartment.org/
Nov 1
Fort Ticonderoga celebrates #FamilyHistoryMonth this October with the genealogy initiative Ticonderoga Soldiers Project. The project was launched because of a dramatic increase in genealogical interest and inquiries related to soldiers who served at Ticonderoga during the 18th century.
The Ticonderoga Soldiers Project is a multi-phase initiative aimed at making it easier for people around the world to connect with their family’s history at Ticonderoga. To achieve this goal, Fort Ticonderoga Museum staff are scouring recently digitized archival documents including military orders, returns, court documents, letters, and diaries to identify and document the thousands of individuals who were stationed at Fort Ticonderoga from 1755 to 1783. This project has been made possible in part by the generous support of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Additional support for documenting pre-Revolutionary archival records is made possible in part by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York and the General Society of Colonial Wars.
To learn more about the Ticonderoga Soldiers Project, visit https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/fort-ticonderoga-celebrates-family-history-month-with-ticonderoga-soldiers-project/.
Oct 30
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
