National Historic Landmark -Fort Ticonderoga

National Historic Landmark -Fort Ticonderoga

For most of the second half of the 18th century, this Landmark was the military key to the Champlain Valley, New York City, the Hudson River Valley and western New England and Montreal.

This strategic location made ...

Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . a perfect mousetrap.”

- Col. Alexander Scammell,

September 21, 1777

From here are seen nearly all the powerful forces of nature that made this spot on Lake Champlain the Gibraltar of the North ...

Fort Ticonderoga

Historic New York

During the 18th century, when nations fought to control the strategic route between the St. Lawrence River in Canada and the Hudson River to the south, the fortification overlooking the outlet of Lake George into Lake Champlain ...