As part of its ongoing excavation and study of the Ticonderoga‘s Liberty Hill site, Fort Ticonderoga is announcing the discovery, documentation and preservation of more than five hundred new artifacts at the site – where the Declaration of Independence was read to the Continental Army at Ticonderoga for the first time in July 1776 — with several of the most compelling examples dating from the American Revolution in 1776. [Read more…] about Revolutionary War Artifacts Discovered in Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga Association
Knox’s Noble Train at Crown Point, Fort Ti & Fort George
The latest episode of the Lake George Battlefield Moments podcast features Dr. Matt Keagle, Curator at the Fort Ticonderoga Association, discussing the origins and original plans for the movement of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Crown Point to their eventual placement at Boston to assist General George Washington‘s Patriots in forcing the British evacuation there. [Read more…] about Knox’s Noble Train at Crown Point, Fort Ti & Fort George
National Park Service Awards $10M to Historic Sites; $1.6M in NYS
The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded $10 million in funding from the Semiquincentennial Grant Program, an initiative commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States; $1.6 million is earmarked for sites in New York State.
Among the recipients are Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site in Newburgh; Historic Conference House in Staten Island; and Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. [Read more…] about National Park Service Awards $10M to Historic Sites; $1.6M in NYS