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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.
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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
Today we celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States Army.
Video available on our YouTube Channel @FortTiconderogaNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71iHVKejspo
#armybday #Army250 #Goarmy250 #usarmy
Regional leaders gathered yesterday at Fort Ticonderoga to celebrate the 250th of the Northern Department as part of America’s national Semiquincentennial. A NEW America 250th heritage tourism trail features the Northern Department of the American Revolution and includes 18 historic destinations and museums across New York, Vermont, Quebec, and tribal nations.
From the rivers, lakes, and mountains between Saratoga and Montreal, a defining chapter of the American Revolution was written. Today, the Northern Department initiative, inspired by this legacy, invites you to explore our historic sites and museums. As America commemorates its 250th anniversary, discover the enduring spirit of the War for Independence right here where it happened.
The Northern Department is featured in a NEW video production available across social media channels during the 250th commemorative period, which will place the region at the center of the conflict that shaped our nation. A new interactive website connects historic destinations and museums to the American Revolution. Additionally, Northern Department brochures are available throughout the region.
🎥 WATCH NOW! Link in stories ⬆️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftou31rylnM
#America250 #FortTiconderoga #Northerndepartment #RevolutionaryWar
#OTD 250 years ago—June 13, 1775 at Ticonderoga, Benedict Arnold oversaw rebuilding of barracks and sent Captain Eleazar Oswald to report to the Continental Congress. The same day Arnold appropriated the labor of enslaved workers captured at Philip Skene`s estate at Skenesborough (now Whitehall) to mine for iron ore.
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/
A clear #Spring morning in the #KingsGarden with roses, goatsbeard, foxglove, lupines, and peonies all blooming bright!
#OTD 250 years ago—June 11, 1775, Benedict Arnold had a physical altercation with James Easton, one of the original men to join Connecticut`s expedition to capture Ticonderoga, and a rival of Arnold`s. Arnold describes himself as the clear winner of the encounter.
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 10 years ago, our tour boat the Carillon arrived at Fort Ticonderoga, to begin daily cruises of the historic waters of Lake Champlain. This photo is crossing the Crown Point bridge on the last leg of that journey in 2015. Celebrate our 10th anniversary season of the Carillon with your own cruise in 2025!
https://fortticonderoga.org/experience/boat-tours-champlain/
On Trades Tuesday we are finishing a pair of woolen trousers for our upcoming Connecticut soldier portrayal. Wool trousers were surprisingly common among men in Connecticut and subsequently Connecticut soldiers, like “one Thomas Stilwell, about 47 years of age, near six feet high, black hair; had on when he went away a brown surtout coat, blue duffil trowsers...” Duffle of Duffil was a heavy wool cloth, which made sense as he deserted from Colonel Charle’s Burrall’s regiment on his way to Ticonderoga, according to a March 18, 1776 advertisement in the Connecticut Courant. The heavy wool cloth makes the tailor’s thimble especially necessary, pushing the needle repeatedly through this dense, thick material.
#TradesTuesday #HistoricTrades #America250
Dramatic scenes of the #KingsGarden, from the locations where the garden was supposed to be viewed in the 1920 Marian Cruger Coffin plan for this garden.
https://fortticonderoga.org/experience/explore-adirondacks/kings-garden/
In May 1775, Connecticut chose to release Katherine and Mary Ann Margaret Skene, the daughters of British officer and Loyalist Philip Skene. The sisters, who were captured when American forces took their father’s settlement at Skenesborough, were sent to Montreal as noncombatants. 250 years ago today—June 10, 1775—the Continental Congress had to decide what to do with a more important prisoner: Philip Skene himself.
When Skenesborough was captured, Skene had been at sea returning from England, where he had been lobbying for a governorship over the posts in the Champlain Valley near his estates. He received an appointment as Lieutenant Governor of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, as well as a commission as Inspector and Surveyor of His Majesty’s Woods with an expansive purview as far as the Great Lakes, but war interrupted his plans. As soon as Skene’s ship landed in Philadelphia, he was taken into custody by the Continental Congress and kept in “Confinement Under the Custody of Centries with fixed Bayonets, and in a Guard Room”.
While Skene’s daughters were not politically active and could be safely sent to Canada, matters with Skene were different. As a lieutenant colonel in the British Army and with wide new authority along Lake Champlain, he was deeply distrusted by Continental officials. However, as an officer and a gentleman, Congress trusted Skene to keep his word of honor if offered a limited level of freedom. Congress resolved on June 10 “That Governor Skene be released from his present confinement and suffered to go at large anywhere within Eight Miles of the City… on his Parole of Honor.”
While giving Skene some freedom of movement seemed reasonable on June 10, the situation in America was changing quickly. Skene’s freedom would not last. In a note at the bottom of this copy of the resolution, Skene adds, “after the Affair at Bunkers Hill I was sent under an Escort of 700 men, a Prisoner to New York and from thence to Hartford in Connecticut”. He would remain a prisoner in Connecticut for over a year.
View the resolution (MS.7184.10) on the Ticonderoga Online Collections database: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30815
#OTD 250 years ago—June 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold learned of officers convening without him in a way that appeared to circumvent his command. The incident was evidence of the lack of coordination by various colonial officials and officers in the region before the creation of the Continental Army.
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—June 9, 1775, Benedict Arnold`s patrol toward Canada began to return south. Later that day, Captain Jonathan Brown, who had gone to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, returned to Crown Point.
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/
During narrated boat tours aboard the Carillon, discover some of the most archaeologically rich waters in North America while surrounded by breathtaking lake views, commanding mountains, and the majestic fort.
Sit back and relax with a regional beer, wine, or cider, and allow our friendly and knowledgeable staff to narrate Ticonderoga’s epic story as one of North America’s most strategic strongholds.
Boat tours run Tuesday-Sunday through October 17. The 60-foot boat is available for daily tours, field trips, History Happy Hour cruises, and private charters. A selection of regional beer and cider, wine, soft drinks, water, and snacks are available for purchase on board. Tickets for the boat cruise are available online at www.fortticonderoga.org or can be purchased on-site, as available. Tours are available rain or shine.