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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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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 70,000 visitors each year with an economic impact of more than $16 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. To view Fort Ticonderoga’s electronic press kit, click here. © The Fort Ticonderoga Association. 2025 All Rights Reserved.Instagram @FORT_TICONDEROGA
#Spring iris and peony buds will make the end of May spectacular, even as early iris and delphiniums stand out in the #KingsGarden now.
#OTD 250 years ago—May 21, 1775, Benedict Arnold learned of the failure of Ethan Allen`s attack on the British post of St. Jean, fulfilling his expectations.
Learn more about Arnold`s regimental memorandum book (object ID MS.7160) and his time at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on our website: https://fortticonderoga.org/news/whos-in-command-at-fort-ticonderoga/
On this day 250 years ago—May 21, 1775—Benedict Arnold sent a letter from Ticonderoga to Captain John Stevens, commander of the American garrison to the south at Fort George. On May 23, Stevens wrote back. Two hundred fifty years later, these letters have been reunited. The Fort Ticonderoga Museum recently acquired Arnold’s May 21 letter to Stevens, bringing together the letters and providing insight into the weeks after Ticonderoga’s capture.
On May 17, Arnold had led a raid on the British fort at St. John’s, capturing the only British sloop on Lake Champlain. On his way back, he crossed paths with a group led by his rival Ethan Allen, who intended to capture St. John’s. Allen’s expedition was much less successful. “Col. Allen & his Party is Just Arivd from St. Johns, when they were Attacked,” a slightly smug Arnold writes, “& were obliged to make a precipitate Retreat… They have returned without Provision, & much Fatigued.”
Arnold asks Stevens, “Pray Send On all the Provisi[ons] you have immediately & then Men who will Engage for the Summer”. He is planning to travel to Crown Point “& make a stand there In Order to Secure the Cannon at that Place”, but he is not worried about British attacks, since after his capture of the British sloop, “we are masters of the Lake”.
In Stevens’ reply, he reports news from Albany in response to Arnold’s pleas for provisions and men: “the City of Albany and Country are sending in Provisions Continually… I am informed there is A Great Quantity More Coming from Different Parts of the County ”. His news about recruits is less promising. Stevens had sent agents south to enlist men to serve under Arnold, but “the People Below Opposed Inlisting men among them… Saying that thay Should want the same men to fill up their own Levies”. While one agent had managed to recruit “12 or 15 Men”, the troops to defend Ticonderoga would have to come from elsewhere.
View Arnold’s letter (MS.7853, in memory of Mr. George M. Jones, III) on the Ticonderoga Online Collections database here: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/32746 and Stevens’ reply (MS.7025) here: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30257
On this Trades Tuesday we’re celebrating the look of the women’s riding habit, that many British officers’ wives wore, matching their husband’s uniforms. As the name suggests, riding habits were a style of lady’s dress for horseback riding. Yet the fitted jackets and matching petticoats were popular for ladies sporting in the outdoors or traveling, like the lifestyle of a British officer’s wife. Though we don’t know if she had a matching riding habit, Sarah Delaplace, wife of Captain William Delaplace was traveling on this date in 1775. Her journey as a prisoner of war began with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, and continued with her eventual arrival and parole, along with her husband, in Hartford, Connecticut, while the Continental Congress discussed how to handle their first British prisoners.
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Vibrant colors peaking out of the #KingsGarden on the #spring morning, with bearded iris, alliums, spirea, and strawberry #flowers.
#OTD 250 years ago— May 20, 1775, Benedict Arnold continued to fit out the 2 vessels now under his command on Lake Champlain. He also dispatched news of his captures to the governments of Connecticut and Massachusetts the same day.
Learn more about Arnold`s regimental memorandum book (object ID MS.7160) and his time at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on our website: https://fortticonderoga.org/news/whos-in-command-at-fort-ticonderoga/
You’ve read the history—now see it unfold!
Watch the dramatic 250th Anniversary of America’s first offensive victory of the American Revolution—the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga—in its entirety. Epic & immersive access to all the action from this sold-out live program.
Just weeks after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, a small American force led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold launched a surprise attack on Fort Ticonderoga. The British garrison surrendered without a fight. The capture gave the Americans much needed artillery, which were transported to Boston by Henry Knox that winter and used to drive the British out of the city in 1776.
Immerse yourself in the events leading up to May 10, 1775, with our REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ playlist on YouTube. Experience the historic drama through high definition 4K videos, including The Race to Ticonderoga and The Capture in Context, which bring to life the daring strategies of Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. This curated series offers a vivid portrayal of the moments that set the stage for America`s first offensive victory.
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#OTD 250 years ago—May 19, 1775, Benedict Arnold, his troops, the schooner "Liberty," and the newly captured sloop "Enterprise" stopped briefly at Crown Point to write letters before heading on to Ticonderoga.
Earlier that day, Ethan Allen`s force which was headed to St. Jean was ambushed and forced to retreat.
Learn more about Arnold`s regimental memorandum book (object ID MS.7160) and his time at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on our website: https://fortticonderoga.org/news/whos-in-command-at-fort-ticonderoga/
#OTD 250 years ago—May 18, 1775, at 6am, Arnold and his men surprised the British post of St. Jean. They successfully seized the sloop "Betsey," which they renamed "Enterprise", as well as more British soldiers and sailors.
On their way back up the lake toward Ticonderoga they encountered Ethan Allen headed north to attack the same place!
Learn more about Arnold`s regimental memorandum book (object ID MS.7160) and his time at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on our website: https://fortticonderoga.org/news/whos-in-command-at-fort-ticonderoga/
#OTD 250 years ago—May 17, 1775, Arnold`s men continued their journey to attack the British fort at St. Jean (or St. John`s), Quebec. They sailed to Point au Fer near the bottom of Lake Champlain in the schooner "Liberty" and embarked in bateaux for the final approach to St. Jean the next morning.
Learn more about Arnold`s regimental memorandum book (object ID MS.7160) and his time at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on our website: https://fortticonderoga.org/news/whos-in-command-at-fort-ticonderoga/
#OTD 250 years ago—May 16, 1775, Benedict Arnold and the schooner "Liberty" were en route to attack the British post at St. Jean (St. Johns, as they called it) where a government sloop was the only other vessel of size on Lake Champlain.
Later that day they captured a boat carrying mail heading south for Ticonderoga, along with Ensign Joseph Moland of the 26th Regiment of Foot, who was in it. Ensign Moland was from New Jersey, the brother of Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Templar`s American wife, and the 4th officer of the regiment captured in the war.
Learn more about Arnold`s regimental memorandum book (object ID MS.7160) and his time at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on our website: https://fortticonderoga.org/news/whos-in-command-at-fort-ticonderoga/
250 years ago today—May 16, 1775—Ticonderoga and Crown Point had been in American hands for nearly a week. Farther south, so was Skenesborough, a prosperous settlement founded by career British Army officer Philip Skene. Skene was at sea returning from a visit to England when the Americans captured Skenesborough, but his son, Major Andrew Skene, and his daughters, Katherine and Mary Ann Margaret, were captured. So were the town’s industrial fixtures, including grist mills, saw mills, an iron foundry, and a shipyard that would become vital for the American navy on Lake Champlain. In a letter written on May 16 to the Connecticut General Assembly, Captain Elisha Phelps discusses the management of the newly-captured town.
“Major Skeen Estate we have put into the Care of Capt. Noah Lee, a man of Good [Character] and Capable of taking Care of the Business well”, Phelps writes. He considers the welfare of the town’s residents, stating that “the Iron work must be Carried on for the Benifet of the people here”. Not all the residents of Skenesborough were trustworthy, though, particularly Skene’s business agent, John Brooks. “It would Not Do by No means to have mr Brook Stay heare as he was Looked upon to be a [bigger] Innemy to his Contry than Major Skeen, and tis an Easy mattor to Send an [Indian] to Cannada and Inform them all our Scheems and plans”.
Phelps also worried about Philip Skene’s schemes and plans. He writes that he has heard that Skene has married a rich woman in England, that he has a commission to govern Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and that he is bringing 1,000 men with him to Skenesborough. Only one of these rumors was true—Skene had been commissioned as lieutenant governor of Ticonderoga and Crown Point—but Phelps, who had no way of assessing the truth of the news, was concerned. He recommended that “Not Less than three thousand men be here [immediately] and to push on to Saint Johns & Kannada”. Phelps’ request would be indirectly answered that fall by the American invasion of Canada.
Learn more about Phelps’ letter (object ID MS.6007) on the Ticonderoga Online Collections database: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30210