July 4th, 1861 Address delivered at Essex, NY
From the archives of the Ticonderoga Historical Society we commemorate this 4th of July, 2020 by re-publishing a historical pamphlet —...
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tihistory1764
- Jul 23, 2018
- 12 min
Nathaniel Miller, A Revolutionary Soldier
A Revolutionary Soldier Who Settled in Ticonderoga Nathaniel Miller was born 7 May 1760 at Mt. Washington, Mass., a small township lying...
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tihistory1764
- Feb 25, 2018
- 13 min
Notes from Historical Recordings
The steamer GANOUSKIE has been sold to a New York party and will be dismantled and fitted up for a dwelling house. **** Lake George...
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tihistory1764
- Feb 18, 2018
- 6 min
Where West Meets East
For many of our friends one of the numerous personalities that embodies the spirit of “The Wild West” may be in the person of “Buffalo...
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tihistory1764
- Jan 13, 2018
- 4 min
Burt Loescher’s Roger’s Rangers Unpublished NCOs List Digitized
Burt Garfield Loescher (1917-2006) is known to have been one of the early experts on Rogers’ Rangers and the American French and Indian...
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tihistory1764
- Oct 31, 2017
- 10 min
The Beginning, the Settlement of Ticonderoga
Dear Brother, I must inform you of the melancholy death of my Brother John. He was crossing from Fort George (Fort William Henry) the...
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tihistory1764
- Oct 28, 2017
- 7 min
A Scottish Ghost Story of Yore
Ticonderoga* A Legend of the West Highlands This is the tale of the man Who heard a word in the night In the land of the heathery hills,...
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tihistory1764
- Oct 8, 2017
- 9 min
Moriah’s Iron Ore Operations
A recent newspaper article provided a public update of a proposed application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding the...
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tihistory1764
- Sep 23, 2017
- 17 min
The Journals of Arthur A. Carr — Part II
Jan 1, 1943: Without having planned it so I find that my large journal which for a decade has taken whatever my pen might translate of...
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tihistory1764
- Sep 6, 2017
- 15 min
Hiking the Adirondack High Peaks
The Ticonderoga Historical Society has been the beneficiary of many wonderful gifts so far in 2017. From the accession records we share...
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tihistory1764
- Jul 13, 2017
- 11 min
Baldwin’s Overland
Wanders still, we have threaded the silvery pathway of the Horican, (Lake George) and are drifting idly toward the gray old ruins of the...
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tihistory1764
- Jul 2, 2017
- 4 min
The Fall of Fort Ticonderoga 1777
The Fall of Fort Ticonderoga Early this morning, July 2nd, the block house at the lower falls was afire – the clouds of smoke announced...
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tihistory1764
- Apr 23, 2017
- 9 min
The Anxious Seat
Bige (Traveling Companion) had his nose down in the balsam and was snoring at the rate of about ten miles an hour when I awakened, and by...
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tihistory1764
- Apr 1, 2017
- 5 min
Once Upon a Time – “Our Hospital”
“Our Hospital” is now being transformed into a “new model” of rural health care. The construction fences are in place and workers have...
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tihistory1764
- Mar 12, 2017
- 14 min
Major Robert Rogers, Trader
A re-publishing of an edited paper written by Josephine Janes Mayer that was presented here in Ticonderoga ~ at the Hancock House ~ on...
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tihistory1764
- Feb 12, 2017
- 2 min
A Tribute to Abe Lincoln
A pictorial tribute to our sixteenth president ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ on the 208th anniversary of his birth in Hardin County, Kentucky. His...
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tihistory1764
- Jan 29, 2017
- 17 min
Gold Rush Letters – Father & Son ~ Part II
We continue with Elmer Eugene Barker’s article – “Letters of Charles Franklin Hammond to his son John, 1849-1850.” Altho there were no...
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tihistory1764
- Jan 15, 2017
- 13 min
Gold Rush Letters of Father & Son
In the golden age of boating on Lake Champlain, so my father told me, steamboats made regularly scheduled landings at Crown Point (NY) by...
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tihistory1764
- Jan 8, 2017
- 9 min
What Crown Pointers Were Reading
The following is another article written by Elmer Eugene Barker written in 1949. “What Crown Pointers (NY) Were Reading One Hundred...
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tihistory1764
- Dec 25, 2016
- 8 min
Early American Dolls
Toy Dolls do not seem to have existed among primitive peoples. There were numerous images and idols, but objects so enwrapped in...
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