From Further Afield
Compiling, organizing, and digitizing institutional records is often a tedious process, especially when the museum has been around for more than a century. However, all of that hard work has never been more useful. Cataloging the Pavilion Collection marches on using digitized versions of all eighteen inventories and record photographs of objects taken by Elizabeth […]
Fort Ticonderoga Celebrates National Maritime Day with Historic Boat Building Programs, Narrated Boat Cruises, and Student Engagement
Fort Ticonderoga celebrates National Maritime Day, May 22, with a new 2024 historic boat building program and narrated boat tours aboard the 60 ft Carillon Boat on Lake Champlain. The maritime trades program is available daily Tuesday-Sunday throughout the season. The Carillon Boat tours will begin on May 24th and run through October. “Ticonderoga’s strategic […]
Call for Papers
Material Maters: It’s in the Details—January 2025 Fort Ticonderoga’s annual “Material Matters: It’s in the Details” virtual conference focuses on material culture made, used, or altered in a military context in the period 1609-1815. Presenters include established scholars, graduate students, professionals, and artisans. Click here War College of the Seven Years’ War—May 2025 Fort Ticonderoga’s […]
Uncommon Sufferings
On the morning of January 21st, 1757, Robert Rogers and seventy-six of his officers and Rangers ambushed a column of French supply sleds headed from Fort Carillon towards Fort St. Frederic at Crown Point. Rogers’ Rangers successfully ambushed the front of the column. At the rear, French officers sent word to Fort Carillon, with a […]
Fort Ticonderoga Generates More than $12 Million Economic Impact for Ticonderoga Region
Fort Ticonderoga, a not-for-profit educational organization and major cultural destination, announced today that it generates a total of $12.1 million annually in economic impact. The total includes visitor spending from tourists; spending by the Fort Ticonderoga Association in its daily operations; the indirect and induced impacts created by labor income as it flows into the […]
Getting the Whole Picture
From school picture day to classical marble busts, portraits are ubiquitous. They are so much a part of daily life that it is easy to forget how important they are and what they reveal about the person being represented. This is as true for selfies as it is for portrait paintings like that of museum […]
William Ferris Pell, Horticulturalist
When William Ferris Pell purchased the 546-acre Garrison Grounds encompassing the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga in 1820, he preserved the remaining stonework of the Fort and began shaping the landscape surrounding the summer home he built nearby. Set in a pastoral landscape, the site was described as reminiscent of “park scenery of England; and the view of the ruins from […]
Fort Ticonderoga Announces 2019 Awards Presented at Summer Fundraising Events
Jeff Killeen Receives the Sarah Gibbs Thompson Pell Award and the International Ticonderoga Mill and the International Paper Foundation Receive the Henry Knox Award Fort Ticonderoga recently presented two awards at summer fundraising events. Jeff Killeen was awarded the 2019 Sarah Gibbs Thompson Pell Award presented at Fort Ticonderoga’s Annual King’s Garden Party on July […]
Lively Winter Quarters Living History Event at Fort Ticonderoga features the myriad of intense military preparations afoot in March 1777
The Bridge to 1777 living history event on Saturday, March 4, 2023 Experience Fort Ticonderoga in the beauty of winter during the next Winter Quarters living history event The Bridge to 1777 on Saturday, March 4, 2023. The event will bring to life the story of American soldiers at Ticonderoga in March 1777, as they […]
Flags for the Forts
On November 30, 1776 Ebenezer Stevens, Major of the artillery stationed at Ticonderoga, prepared a return of “Ordnance and Ordnance Stores” wanted by the Northern department. Amongst his requests were two flags or “standards” for the twin citadels of Ticonderoga and Mount Independence. Stevens requested massive flags, easily seen at a distance, measuring 30 by […]