Visitors Pick Up the Tools of 1776 as the Revolution Unfolds in Real Time at Fort Ticonderoga
September 19–20 REAL TIME REVOLUTION® Signature Event, “Lodging as the Nature of the Campaign will Admit,” invites visitors to build alongside Continental soldiers racing winter and a British advance The fight for independence is unfolding in real time at Fort Ticonderoga, and on September 19 and 20 visitors can take part in it. During the […]
Fort Ticonderoga Opens a Three-Part Recreation of the Autumn That Kept the American Revolution Alive
Three months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution nearly ended on Lake Champlain. Beginning Saturday, August 29, and continuing Sunday, August 30, Fort Ticonderoga marks the 250th anniversary of that autumn in 1776 with three consecutive REAL TIME REVOLUTION® Signature Events, opening with “Fleet & Fortification: The Science of Defense.” “Fleet & Fortification: […]
Fort Ticonderoga’s Heroic Corn Maze Named a USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Nominee for Best Corn Maze in America
Fort Ticonderoga’s Heroic Corn Maze has been named a USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Nominee for Best Corn Maze in America, the only nominee in New York or Vermont on this year’s national ballot. Voting is open once per day through Monday, September 7 at 11:59 a.m. EDT at 10best.usatoday.com. The nomination arrives in the […]
Fort Ticonderoga Welcomes Homeschool Families for Homeschool Day, September 4, in the Nation’s 250th Anniversary Season
Fort Ticonderoga will host Homeschool Day on Friday, September 4, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., offering homeschool families a full day of programs built around the epic story of Ticonderoga inside America’s 250th anniversary. Students and parents will step into the compelling struggle for independence in 1776 through living history, historic trades, waterway […]
“Stir Up Their Humanity”: Dr. Potts Asks Albany for Help
As Dr. Jonathan Potts settled into his role as director of the military hospital at Fort George, he had several problems to cope with. Perhaps the most pressing was the hospital’s lack of medicines and other medical supplies. To get his hands on the supplies he needed to treat the army’s sick soldiers, Potts needed to get creative. On July 25, 1776—250 […]
“The Freshest Advices, Foreign and Domestic”: Reporting the Declaration of Independence in Boston
Benjamin Edes promised in the masthead of his newspaper, the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, to provide “the freshest Advices, Foreign and Domestic.” On July 22, 1776—250 years ago today—his front-page news, while not entirely fresh, was seismic: the full text of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was adopted by Congress on July 4, but it […]
Fort Ticonderoga Unveils New Heroic Corn Maze as the 250th Anniversary Season Enters Its Peak Summer Run
Fort Ticonderoga is entering August on extraordinary momentum. Named the Best Living History in America for the nation’s 250th anniversary by USA Today 10Best and recognized by The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Smithsonian Magazine, and Fodor’s, the site is welcoming record-breaking visitation this summer as REAL TIME REVOLUTION® brings the fight for independence […]
Fort Ticonderoga’s REAL TIME REVOLUTION® presents immersive reenactments of the American Revolution through 2027, as they occurred 250 years ago
Fort Ticonderoga is experiencing one of its strongest seasons in its 117-year history, with record-breaking attendance and visitors gathering daily at the site where the Continental Army held the line for American independence in 1776. The successful tourism season comes on the heels of Fort Ticonderoga’s recognition as a “Best Living History” site for the […]
Lieutenant Colonel Van Cortlandt’s Complaint
In July 1776, Lieutenant Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt was feeling aggrieved. Despite his faithful service for more than a year in the Continental Army, he was still only a lieutenant colonel, while others around him were promoted. Even today, it can be frustrating watching colleagues being promoted over your head, but in the 18th century it […]
Tools to Ticonderoga: Supplying the Army in the North
On July 13, 1776—250 years ago today—streams of supplies and troops were flowing towards Fort Ticonderoga. The troops were coming from the north, as soldiers fresh from the invasion of Canada evacuated Fort Crown Point to dig in at Ticonderoga. Supplies traveled in the opposite direction, with goods being shipped north from Albany and points south. […]