Fort Ticonderoga Receives a Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Chocolate History Grant to Support Programming Marking 250 Years of America and Chocolate
Fort Ticonderoga was recently awarded a $10,000 Forrest E. Mars Jr. Chocolate History grant that will contribute to the development of a new interactive living history program recreating the chocolate sellers of the civilian market at Ticonderoga in 1776 in honor of America’s 250th anniversary. The grant was awarded at the Annual Heritage Chocolate Society […]
Fort Ticonderoga Secures Historic $12 Million for Acquisition of the Robert Nittolo Collection, Transforming the Museum into Premier Center for 18th-Century History
Fort Ticonderoga proudly announces a major milestone in its mission to preserve and share American history, having successfully secured $12 million in gifts and pledges to acquire the renowned Robert Nittolo Collection. This monumental acquisition, considered the most significant private collection of 18th-century militaria in North America, solidifies Fort Ticonderoga’s standing as a world-class educational […]
Fort Ticonderoga Receives Funding to Support Regional Youth Programming
Fort Ticonderoga recently received a grant from the South Lake Champlain Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation to support a regional youth maritime expeditionary learning program Maritime Artificer’s Apprentice for student and scout field trips, and as virtual or in-classroom outreach, during the 2025-2026 school year. This inquiry-based maritime trades program illustrates the construction of […]
Fort Ticonderoga Announces Guns for Ticonderoga Project: Americana Corner grant allows Fort Ticonderoga to tell signature 250th stories
Fort Ticonderoga is thrilled to announce a five-year expansion of our weapons demonstrations and signature living history events through the Guns for Ticonderoga project funded by Americana Corner. Thanks to the generous support of Americana Corner, Fort Ticonderoga has embarked on recreating two complete American artillery pieces with cannon, carriages, inert reproduction ammunition, and the […]
Fort Ticonderoga Receives Prestigious Education Grant — Funding supports two one-week Landmarks Workshops for teachers in Summer 2025
Fort Ticonderoga has been awarded a grant of $152,382 from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to host two one-week Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops titled The American Revolution: Subjects, Citizens, and Soldiers for educators in the summer of 2025. Fort Ticonderoga was one of fifteen nationwide institutions to receive this grant […]
Fort Ticonderoga Receives Major Funding to Support Restoration of the Southwest Bastion and South Curtain Wall
Fort Ticonderoga recently received major funding for restoration of the Southwest Bastion and South Curtain Wall by a Semiquincentennial grant from the Historic Preservation Fund administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. This funding will assist in stabilizing and restoring this […]
Fort Ticonderoga Announces Opening of British Powder Magazine — Interactive space open to visitors for the first time in 50 years!
Fort Ticonderoga is thrilled to announce the opening of the British Powder Magazine in the Southwest Bastion, open to visitors for the first time in 50 years. Visitors can descend into this interactive space, passing through the oak door that secured this magazine. Inside this vaulted stone room, examine reproduction cannon shot and wracks of […]
Major NEW Exhibition Launches National 250th Commemoration at Fort Ticonderoga
A REVOLUTIONARY ANTHOLOGY: POWER OF PLACE features more than 100 objects many on public display for the FIRST TIME EVER Fort Ticonderoga, a museum, National Historic Landmark historic site, and major cultural destination, announces the OPENING of a major new 250th Anniversary exhibit program entitled, A Revolutionary Anthology. The first year of this exhibit program, […]
Celebrate the Scot in You During Annual Scots Day Celebration on June 15!
Fort Ticonderoga invites you to explore Scottish history, heritage, and culture during our daylong Scots Day celebration on Saturday, June 15, 2024. Discover the heroic stories of Scottish soldiers in the British Army serving at Ticonderoga and North America though the campaigns of the 18th century. Thrill at musket demonstrations that highlight the equipment, clothing, […]
Fort Ticonderoga Awarded Grant from American Battlefield Protection Program, National Park Service
Fort Ticonderoga, a museum, major cultural destination, and National Historic Landmark, has been awarded a $147,151 Preservation Planning Grant from the American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP), National Park Service for the survey of the American encampment on Liberty Hill. As American forces retreated from their disastrous invasion of Canada and arrived at Ticonderoga in July […]