What Lies Beneath: Lake Champlain Boat Tours Highlight Dozens of Archaeological Sites
A boat tour aboard Fort Ticonderoga’s 60-foot Carillon not only provides visitors with breathtaking lake views of commanding mountains and the majestic fort, it also crosses some of the most archaeologically rich waters in North America. This latest attraction at Fort Ticonderoga, a major cultural destination, museum, and National Historic Landmark located in New York’s […]
Goddess Diana of Youthful Form
Walking the brick paths of the King’s Garden, visitors can’t help but notice the statue of Diana rising above the flowers from her pedestal in the reflecting pool. It is the work of Anna Hyatt Huntington, a prominent and prolific American sculptor whose works can be found in museums and public spaces around the world. […]
Lesson Plans
Fort Ticonderoga provides a growing list of free, downloadable lesson plans that take a multi-disciplined approach to integrate history, geography, math, science, and language art skills. These lesson plans, aligned to national standards, are offered for in-class or virtual learning, as well as to enhance visits to Fort Ticonderoga. Lesson plans have been created by […]
Virtual Author Series featuring John Rees
The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. The role of African Americans, most free but some enslaved, in the regiments of the Continental Army is not well-known; neither is the fact that relatively large numbers served in southern regiments and that the greatest number served alongside their white comrades in […]
Junior Fifes & Drums
About the Junior Fifes & Drums The Junior Fifes & Drums of Fort Ticonderoga are comprised of student volunteers in grades 6-12 who have a passion for music and history. This is an opportunity to build 18th-century musical performance skills and learn 18th-century trades with no experience required. Fort Ticonderoga offers free instruction on fife, […]
Adult
General Admission for Adult Groups Groups of 15 or more enjoy a special rate of admission including the historic fort, weapons demonstrations, daily programs and tours, The Log House Welcome Center the Museum Store and America’s Fort Cafe, the King’s Garden, ongoing and special exhibition, Carillon Battlefield and hiking trail, Mount Defiance. The rate also […]
Virtual Author Series featuring Eugene Procknow
The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. William Hunter, the son of a Revolutionary War British soldier, witnessed the terrors of combat and capture and penned the only surviving Revolutionary account written by a child of a British soldier. Remarkably, Hunter immigrated to America and became a gutsy Kentucky newspaper […]
Portraying a Citizen Army: Clothing Rabble in Arms
The April 26, 1775 Connecticut Assembly Resolves that raised an army for war required that every man bring their own clothing and equipment from home stating: And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a premium of Fifty-Two Shillings per man shall be advanced and paid to each non-commissioned Officer and inhabitant upon […]
Yorktown
Your browser does not support the audio element. Click to Toggle Transcript Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, was established on the banks of the James River in Virginia in 1607. Yorktown and other port cities like Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Portsmouth, and Norfolk eventually also grew up along the rivers of Virginia, but […]
Ensuring that Present and Future Generations Learn From History
Fort Ticonderoga states that our mission is to “ensure that present and future generations learn from the struggles, sacrifices, and victories that shaped the nations of North America and changed world history.” While many museums and historic sites have some version of “preservation and education” in their missions, Fort Ticonderoga steps out on a limb—not […]