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Offering 2000-acres of breathtaking landscape, Fort Ticonderoga is the perfect fall destination!

Ticonderoga, N.Y. -- From the shores of Lake Champlain to the heights of Mount Defiance, Fort Ticonderoga offers family-friendly activities this fall that capture the essence of the season. Ticonderoga’s epic history and signature stories are highlighted through innovative story telling on a grand scale, historic trades, daily soldiers’ life programs, enriching guided tours, thrilling weapons demos, boat cruises, endless outdoor activities, captivating special events including the September 14-15 Brown’s Raid Battle Reenactment, and premium exclusive experiences.

Staatsburg, N.Y.  (8/21/24) — Staatsburgh State Historic Site is offering free guided landscape walks on the Gilded Age estate’s beautiful grounds overlooking the Hudson River. The program, entitled “What You See… and What You Don’t See,” shows how Staatsburgh’s landscape architect designed a glorious setting that showcased the good life in the Gilded Age, while deliberately using landscape elements to hide the technology and labor that made a turn-of-the-century estate run.

Staatsburg, N.Y.  (8/12/24) — A celebrity murder, heiresses for sale, and scandals that reached as high as the King of England and the President of the United States. All these – and more scandals at the turn of the 20^th-century – are the focus of Staatsburgh State Historic Site’s popular “Gilded Age Scandals” theme-tour returning this September.

The 6-acre Heroic Corn Maze features a new design for 2024

Ticonderoga, N.Y. - From the shores of Lake Champlain to the heights of Mount Defiance, Fort Ticonderoga continues to offer new opportunities and family fun this summer! Ticonderoga’s epic history and signature stories are highlighted through innovative story telling on a grand scale, historic trades, daily soldiers’ life programs, NEW & permanent premier museum exhibitions, Fife & Drum performances, thrilling weapons demos, boat cruises, endless outdoor activities, captivating special events, and premium exclusive experiences.

Living History Event, July 27-28 Featuring Performances by the Fifes and Drums

Ticonderoga, N.Y. - Fort Ticonderoga invites you to experience the sights and sounds of the American Army at Ticonderoga during the Sound of 1776 Living History Event July 27-28. From historic trades and weapons demonstrations to living history vignettes and music performances, discover how the beats of drums and the sounds of fifes translated orders to nearly 10,000 soldiers that lived and fought for liberty at Ticonderoga.

A Revolutionary Anthology: Power of Place features more than 100 objects many on public display for the FIRST TIME EVER

Ticonderoga, N.Y. -- 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, A Revolutionary Anthology: Power of Place, is now open to the public through October 27, 2024.

Experience the American Revolution on the very ground on which the fight for liberty occurred

Ticonderoga, N.Y. -- Fort Ticonderoga will celebrate Independence Day with special events and programs throughout the holiday weekend, July 4-7, 2024. Experience the Revolutionary War on the very ground where Continental Army soldiers fought for liberty. Guests will see first-hand the American soldiers and women who fought bravely against a larger British Army and Navy as costumed museum staff recreate the struggle for independence at Ticonderoga in 1777.

Norwich, N.Y. – The Chenango County Historical Society (CCHS) will again participate in the semi-annual state-wide festivities known as Path Through History weekend on June 16. As part of the celebration, the museum is hosting special open hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. that day.

Enjoy exclusive, premium experiences this summer only at Fort Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga, N.Y. -- Fort Ticonderoga recently announced a new schedule of premium programs and tours this summer. Visitors will have the opportunity to go behind-the-scenes, tour the fort before and after hours, and delve deep into Ticonderoga’s epic history and natural beauty.