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Daily Visitation: May 4-Oct. 27, 2024 | Tues-Sun | 9:30am-5pm
Experience the blend of history and natural beauty like nowhere else when you visit Fort Ticonderoga! Explore 2000 acres of America’s most historic landscape located on the shores of Lake Champlain and nestled between New York’s Adirondack and Vermont’s Green Mountains. Create lasting memories as you embark on an adventure that spans centuries, defined a continent, and helped forge a nation.
EXPLORE THE 6-ACRE HEROIC CORN MAZE!
Share time with family and friends while exploring a unique corn maze located on the shores of Lake Champlain at Fort Ticonderoga, with a NEW DESIGN for 2024! Getting lost in this life-size puzzle is part of the fun as you look for history clues among towering stalks of corn! Find clues connected to our story as you navigate the maze!
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August
22
Ticonderoga Guns by Night
The flash of musketry and roar of cannon fire by night will captivate you in this unique tour and demonstrations of 18th-century firepower. The program concludes with a dramatic demonstration of weapons that you will not see anywhere else! Time & Location: Gate opens at 7:30 pm, program begins at 8 pm at the Log […]
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August
23
Cannon and Coffee
Explore Fort Ticonderoga’s world-class collection of 18th-century artillery from a whole new perspective and be the first to enter Fort Ticonderoga with this special early bird program. Join Fort Ticonderoga Curator, Dr. Matthew Keagle for a special tour across the guns of Ticonderoga and learn the surprising histories of the museum’s artillery collection, spanning the […]
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August
23
History Happy Hour on Lake Champlain
Cap off your day with a relaxing narrated cruise, surrounded by scenic beauty and Ticonderoga’s rich maritime history aboard the Carillon, Fort Ticonderoga’s classic 1920s tour boat. From poignant to comical, discover the drama that surrounded Ticonderoga on the storied waters of Lake Champlain. Enjoy the flavor of history through classic cocktails, taken from tales […]
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August
27
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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September
3
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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September
6
Homeschool Day
Spend a day at Fort Ticonderoga and participate in a series of programs designed for homeschool families! Discover Ticonderoga’s epic history through historic trades and soldiers’ life activities, participate in guided tours and thrilling demonstrations, and explore the historic site. Explore the beauty of the King’s Garden and create your special memories with coloring kits […]
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September
7
Annual Fall King’s Garden Plant Sale
Help Fort Ticonderoga with the historic garden’s stewardship and take home your living legacy from the walled King’s Garden! Among a variety of options, purchase your own beautiful and historic pre-potted King’s Garden flowers or dig your own selection with the guidance of our experienced garden staff. Favorite divisions and whole plans will be available […]
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September
10
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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September
14–15
Battle Reenactment: 1777 Brown’s Raid
Join Fort Ticonderoga for an exciting two-day battle re-enactment highlighting the epic 1777 Brown’s Raid! An attack led by patriot Colonel John Brown will take British troops garrisoning Fort Ticonderoga by surprise 247 years later during the upcoming real-life action adventure at Fort Ticonderoga.
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September
17
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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September
20–22
Twentieth Annual Seminar on the American Revolution
This annual premier conference focused on the military, political, social, and material culture of the American Revolution regularly features scholars from across North America and beyond. Attendees can participate in person or join the conference from home via the Fort Ticonderoga Center for Digital History. Seminar Schedule Friday, September 20, 2024 8:00am-4:00pm “In the Footsteps […]
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September
24
Premium Pavilion Tour
Delve into the exquisite details of the newly restored 1826 Pell Pavilion, enjoying the treasured family tales within each room and each amazing object on display. This entertaining 60-minute tour examines the evolution of this National Historic Landmark, from summer home to hotel, its renovation in 1909, and its most recent complete restoration. Explore incredible […]
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About Fort Ticonderoga
Welcoming visitors since 1909, Fort Ticonderoga is a major cultural destination, museum, historic site, and center for learning. As a multi-day destination and the premier place to learn more about North America’s military heritage, Fort Ticonderoga engages more than 75,000 visitors each year with an economic impact of more than $12 million annually. Presenting vibrant programs, historic interpretation, boat cruises, tours, demonstrations, and exhibits, Fort Ticonderoga and is open for daily visitation May through October and special programs during Winter Quarters, November through April. Fort Ticonderoga is owned by The Fort Ticonderoga Association, a 501c3 non-profit educational organization, and is supported in part through generous donations and with some general operating support made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts.
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This #TradesTuesday we`re sail-making. The largest sails, down to the smallest simple sails for bateaux, all required multiple strips of canvas. Here we are carefully seaming together these 30-36" wide strips with a sailmaker`s palm, needles, and thread. With these tools of this #maritime trade, it is surprisingly easy to push through heavy canvas, stitch-after-stitch.
#historictrades
Aug 20
LAST CHANCE! Experience Fort Ticonderoga before & after hours with Premium Experiences!
Start the day with Cannon & Coffee and explore our world-class collection of 18th-century artillery alongside Curator Dr. Matthew Keagle. Enjoy fresh coffee and take home a unique Fort Ticonderoga mug!
More of an evening person? Guns by Night is a captivating program that includes a tour and demonstrations of 18th-century firepower, concluding with a dramatic demonstration of weapons that you will not see anywhere else!
Experience Ticonderoga by water -- surrounded by scenic beauty and Ticonderoga’s rich maritime history aboard the Carillon, relax during an evening History Happy Hour narrated boat cruise on Lake Champlain!
These programs provide guests an opportunity to enrich the Fort Ticonderoga experience, focusing on unique parts of history, led by our staff of knowledgeable and engaging historians. These programs are perfect for a family outing, a memorable activity with friends, or for individual enjoyment.
This week is the last chance to experience these programs in 2024! Tickets are limited, buy yours now! https://www.fortticonderoga.org/experience/premium-experiences-and-tours/
#PremiumExperiences #Ticonderoga #FortTiconderoga #LifeLongLearning
Aug 19
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! For American colonies during the Seven Years’ War, raising a regiment was a difficult business. Not only did men have to be convinced, or conscripted, to fill a regiment, a campaign’s worth of supplies had to be found to feed and clothe them. The men and supplies had to be transported to the site of the campaign, and everyone involved, the soldiers and those whose behind-the-scenes work kept the army going, had to be paid. Today’s manuscript, MS.2028, is a letter from Major Christopher Champlin, commissary of Colonel Christopher Harris’ Rhode Island Provincial Regiment, to Rhode Island governor Stephen Hopkins, dated August 14, 1755 in Albany. Champlin’s main concern is transporting the regiment’s supplies north to the army of Sir William Johnson near Lake George. He was in Albany “to take charge of a number of Waggons, with a Guard of 40 men, and to reload a Number of Waggons which I Hourly expect… I am Obliged to Transport near 2/3d of our Stores by Waggons, not being sufficient Water in the River to float a Battoe with more than 2bb [barrels?] of Provision”. These wagons were driven by wagoners, who expected fair and timely pay. Champlin writes that while he had estimated the cost of wagon transport at under £500, “it will amount to above £600 if not more, as it’s impossible to foresee the exact Charge, this Being a Large sum, and wanted Imediately, as the Waggoners expect the Cash as soon as they are Dismissed from Service, besides some money in hand before we can Oblige them to go… Unless I coud find out some way to come at this money directly our Regiment coud not march.” To keep the army moving, he has borrowed £200 from a Mr. Buckman: “I doubt not but the government will Chearfully order him a supply for this and other advances made.” While Champlin’s work was more expensive than anticipated, thanks to him, the wagoners, and many other support workers, the Rhode Island Regiment joined Johnson’s army in time to taste victory at the September 8 Battle of Lake George.
This document can be found on our online database in the link below. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30038
Aug 19
Today the exhibits team is painting cannon carriages! Although these concrete carriages are not original to the 18th century, many of them are over 100 years old and are an important part of #FortTiconderoga’s institutional legacy. See how we chose a color based on evidence from the historic record. Thank you to our friends at Benjamin Moore and our Local Aubuchon for supporting future improvements across the site! @benjaminmoore.rep.shannon @benjaminmoorepro @benjaminmoore @aubuchonhardware
Aug 16
LAST CHANCE FOR TICKETS! Explore Fort Ticonderoga’s world-class collection of 18th-century artillery from a whole new perspective and be the first to enter Fort Ticonderoga with a special Cannon & Coffee early bird program on 08/16 & 08/23.
Join Fort Ticonderoga Curator, Dr. Matthew Keagle for a special tour across the guns of Ticonderoga and learn the surprising histories of the museum’s artillery collection, spanning the Atlantic Ocean from the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions all the way to the Spanish American War and WWI. Learn how historians can read these pieces and discover what they have to tell us about military history, technology, art, and more.
Fresh coffee provided and a unique Fort Ticonderoga coffee mug included! Register here: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/cannon-and-coffee/08-16-2024/
Aug 15
This #tradestuesday we`re clothing and equipping one of two grenadiers that were part of the guard of #FortTiconderoga in 1774. Each British infantry battalion, like the 26th Regiment of Foot, had a grenadier company with the strongest and largest soldiers. See how we based the uniform distinctions of these grenadiers on details from objects on display in our latest Revolutionary Anthology exhibit. #historictrades
Aug 13
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! August is one of the busiest travel times of the year, with millions of travelers embarking on trips to the beach, the city, or a classic American road trip, perhaps including a stop at Fort Ticonderoga. This was true in the nineteenth century as well. Even before the invention of the car increased American mobility, those who could afford it went on road trips, exploring the continent via carriages, trains, and steamships. Just as they do today, many of them stopped at, or passed by, Fort Ticonderoga. Today’s manuscript, 2003.0051, the travel diary of a young woman, describes one such trip. The diary covers the period from August 7-August 25, likely 1879. The anonymous author was a young woman vacationing with her parents and sister. The family began their journey in Medford, MA and traveled west to Albany, then Niagara Falls. They then journeyed through Canada by water, visiting Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, and Quebec City. In Quebec, the writer reports, “we visited the citadel and saw where Montgomery fell, the Plains of Abraham and the Monument to Wolfe.” While the family’s interest in the Seven Years’ War and the Revolutionary War is clear from their visit to Quebec, they missed their chance to connect with history by visiting Fort Ticonderoga, then an unreconstructed set of ruins. They stopped at Ticonderoga after traveling down Lake Champlain, but only to change to another steamer on Lake George. Rather than discussing the beauty and history of the Ticonderoga peninsula, the writer mostly laments the difficulty of finding transport to the Lake George landing: “We came to where the coaches were; but when we got [there] they were filled… At length a three-seated wagon came. Before we got there it was half full so as we did not want to break up the party none went.” While the writer and her family missed out on Ticonderoga, their trip through the Adirondacks was not a waste. She notes, “the scenery was beautiful on Lake George”, a statement as true in 2024 as in 1879.
This document can be found on our online database in the link below. #TiconderogaCollections #OpeningTheVault https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/29443
Aug 12
