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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
1
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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October
5
Heritage, Harvest, and Horse Festival
Fort Ticonderoga, surrounded by magnificent autumn backdrops of the Adirondacks and Green Mountains will present the Annual Heritage, Harvest, & Horse Festival on October 5, 2024. The full day of autumn fun will be set in the midst of the King’s Garden heirloom apple trees and the beautiful landscape of the mountains and Lake Champlain. […]
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October
8
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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October
15
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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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
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. Discover the […]
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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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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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Fort Ticonderoga, surrounded by magnificent autumn backdrops of the Adirondacks and Green Mountains, will present the Annual Heritage, Harvest, & Horse Festival on Saturday, October 5! Bring the family to spend the day and discover the important role horses and other working animals played in Fort Ticonderoga’s history during exciting demonstrations. Conquer the six-acre Heroic Corn Maze featuring a NEW design for 2024! Meet Fort Ticonderoga’s friendly oxen duo, stroll through the farmers’ market featuring local food, beverages, and crafts, and more! In addition to Fort Ticonderoga’s daily programming, there is something for everyone at our Annual Heritage, Harvest, & Horse Festival!
For the full lineup of vendors and activities, visit https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/heritage-harvest-and-horse-festival-2/
Sep 26
On this #TradeTuesday we salute the vital trade of nursing within the British Army, as portrayed at our recent #BrownsRaid reenactment. Thanks to support from @americanacorner and others, our Brown`s Raid event featured #FortTiconderoga`s #RevolutionaryWar powder magazine and the explosion that mortally wounded Brunswick Lieutenant Volkmar.
Sep 24
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! In 1774, as tensions rose between the American colonies and the British government, Parliament passed four acts known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts. These acts were designed to punish Massachusetts for its resistance to Parliamentary authority and serve as a warning to other colonies; among other provisions, they dissolved Massachusetts’ elected government, giving governor Thomas Gage the power to appoint officials and curtailing the right of towns to hold town meetings. These acts backfired, as Massachusetts residents defied the restrictions and held county conventions where they declared Gage’s government unconstitutional and resolved to form their own elected Provincial Congress. Suffolk County’s Suffolk Resolves are the most famous results of this process, but other counties also resolved to stand against Gage’s government. Today’s manuscript, MS.7081.20, is an open letter sent to the delegates of the Hampshire County, MA convention. Addressed to “The Honorable Gentelmen who may attend the Congres at Northampton” and dated September 21, 1774, the day before the convention, the letter is signed by 58 men from in and around Amherst, MA. These signers offered their support, stating that “the officers set over this District by athority heartofore are we think Not Proper Men at the present day to Stand in to offis. We humbly Crave Leave to Subcribe our Names as Wel Wishers to the District & Country”. To these well-wishers’ delight, Hampshire County’s convention concluded that Parliament’s and Gage’s acts were unconstitutional and that a Provincial Congress was necessary. They also recommended that men of Hampshire County “acquaint themselves with the military art”, advice that these signers would follow. Many of the signers, including Captain Reuben Dickinson, Lieutenant Joseph Dickinson, and Corporal Ebenezer Eastman, would join Amherst’s militia company and serve during the Revolutionary War, turning their written commitment into action.
This document can be found on our online database in the link below. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30626
Sep 23
This #FoliageFriday, orange and yellow leaves are becoming more and more numerous as the deep greens of summer give way to their autumn counterparts. Our location overlooking #lakechamplain is the perfect destination to get your fix of the fall colors! #Adirondacks #Vermont #Leafpeeping #autumnvibes
Sep 20
This #tradestuesday we take a look at our reenactment of the capture of British cannons atop Mount Defiance during Colonel John Brown`s daring raid on Ticonderoga in 1777. It`s with the combined efforts of all of our historic trades that we`re able to bring such exciting moments to life once again.
Pension Application of James Remick of Captain Easton’s Company on September 18th Mountain Defiance Attack:
“Here we lay that day and till the next morning just before day, when we marched down the mountain—half on one side and the other half on the other—and for the purpose of distraction, and to prevent their being taken for the enemy, those going on our side wore green bushes in their hats.”
Memoirs of Captain Lemuel Roberts of the Vermont Rangers:
"On this march our men would often get scattered, and our rallying signal was a hoot, like that of an owl, which caused pretty frequent apparent hooting of the owls that night, while we were scrabbling over logs and other impediments, and were frequently saluted with the jingling of rattle snakes, which was more terrific to many of us than the thoughts of the enemy"
“we advanced thiough the gap, and being directly hailed by a centry, we ordered him to surrender, or he was a dead man”
Sep 17
