Fort Ticonderoga is now in Winter Quarters!
From November through April, visitors will be immersed in exciting living history events, engaging seminars, specialty programs, behind-the-scenes VIP Tours, and hands-on workshops.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance will be open for daily visitation Tuesday-Sunday May 3-Oct. 26, 2025
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Living History Event: “The Enemy Are Refortifying Ticonderoga”
November 9, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaThis 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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Winter Workshop Series: Quilted Petticoats
November 16, 2024 - November 17, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn 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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Living History Event: “To Render This Place as Tenable as Possible”
December 7, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaThe 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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Virtual Author Series featuring Serena Zabin
January 12, 2025 • ZoomThe 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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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event “Necessary for the Rigour of the Climate”
January 18, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaExperience 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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Fort Fever Series featuring Miranda Peters & Kate Tardiff
January 22, 2025 • ZoomThe 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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Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details
January 25, 2025 • ZoomThe 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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Virtual Author Series featuring J. L. Bell
February 9, 2025 • VirtualThe 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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Fort Fever Series featuring Stuart Lilie
February 26, 2025 •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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Virtual Author Series featuring Timothy Symington
March 9, 2025 • ZoomThe 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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Fort Fever Series featuring Cameron Green
March 26, 2025 •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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Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium
April 5, 2025 • HybridThe 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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Virtual Author Series featuring Stephen Brumwell
April 13, 2025 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty traces Arnold’s journey from enthusiastic support of American independence to his spectacularly traitorous acts and narrow escape. Stephen Brumwell’s research leads to an unexpected conclusion: Arnold’s mystifying betrayal was […]
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Fort Fever Series featuring Dr. Matthew Keagle
April 23, 2025 •The Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Dr. Matthew Keagle, Curator, to preview the 2025 special exhibition highlighting “Subjects, Citizens, Service.” The Revolutionary War was the longest armed conflict in American history until the 20th century and war shaped all the nations involved. Existing armies expanded and new […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ 3-Day Battle Reenactment: No Quarter!
May 9, 2025 - May 11, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaAttend the 250th Anniversary reenactment of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys as well as the immediate aftermath. Examine the real story behind America’s First Victory and learn of America’s first offensive push of the Revolution. Attend the night-time program and witness the Green Mountain Boys […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Evening Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
May 10, 2025 • 102 fort ti road ticonderoga7:30 p.m. Fort Ticonderoga Opens to Visitors for Evening Vignette 8:00 p.m. The Last Hour of British Ticonderoga (Soldiers’ and Officers’ Barracks) Put, ‘America’s First Victory,’ into perspective as you meet the British soldiers and their families that garrisoned Ticonderoga up to May 10, 1775. Examine the mess room and soldiers’ apartments. Talk with commander […]
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Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War
May 30, 2025 - June 1, 2025 • HybridFort Ticonderoga presents the Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War over three days, Friday-Sunday, May 30-June 1, 2025. Since its beginning in 1996, the War College has become a top venue for historians on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Christian Di Spigna
June 8, 2025 •The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. According to Christian Di Spigna, author of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero, little has been known of one of the most import figures in early American history. Dr. Joseph […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Michael P. Gabriel
July 20, 2025 •The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Available for the first time in English, Quebec during the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, & Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Mark R. Anderson
August 17, 2025 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. In this dramatic retelling of one of history’s great “what-ifs,” Mark R. Anderson examines the American colonies’ campaign to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free the Canadians from British “tyranny.” This significant reassessment of a little-studied campaign examines developments […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Signature Reenactment Event: Onward to Canada
August 30, 2025 - August 31, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaWitness the dramatic first muster of the Northern Continental Army as regiments of New Yorkers, Connecticut Yankees, and the Green Mountain Boys assembled for the invasion of Canada. This event will highlight Ticonderoga’s place on Lake Champlain as a supply and naval base through participants rowing to and from Ticonderoga as a fleet of bateaux […]
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Twenty-First Annual Seminar on the American Revolution
September 19, 2025 - September 21, 2025 • 102 fort ti road ticonderogaFort Ticonderoga seeks proposals for papers broadly addressing the period of the War for American Independence with a focus on “Subjects, Citizens, Service” for its Twenty-First Annual Seminar on the American Revolution to be held September 19-21, 2025. Submissions are due September 30, 2024. See the Call for Papers link below. This annual premier conference […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Cole Jones
October 19, 2025 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Signature Reenactment Event: Noble Train Begins
December 6, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaThe arrival of Henry Knox, and the proofing and selection of cannon will all be recreated in this day-long event. Special for the 250th Anniversary, this event will reach further in Ticonderoga’s role, recreating the whole first leg of the Noble Train, bringing cannon to Lake George, where they embarked for Boston.
