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From the archives of the Ticonderoga Historical Society we commemorate this 4th of July, 2020  by re-publishing a historical pamphlet —...

A Revolutionary Soldier Who Settled in Ticonderoga Nathaniel Miller was born 7 May 1760 at Mt. Washington, Mass., a small township lying...

The steamer GANOUSKIE has been sold to a New York party and will be dismantled and fitted up for a dwelling house.  ****  Lake George...

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...

Burt Garfield Loescher (1917-2006) is known to have been one of the early experts on Rogers’ Rangers and the American French and Indian...

Dear Brother, I must inform you of the melancholy death of my Brother John.  He was crossing from Fort George (Fort William Henry) the...

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,...

A recent newspaper article provided a public update of a proposed application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding the...

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...

The Ticonderoga Historical Society has been the beneficiary of many wonderful gifts so far in 2017.  From the accession records we share...

Wanders still, we have threaded the silvery pathway of the Horican, (Lake George) and are drifting idly toward the gray old ruins of the...

The Fall of Fort Ticonderoga Early this morning, July 2nd,  the block house at the lower falls was afire – the clouds of smoke announced...

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...

“Our Hospital” is now being transformed into a “new model” of rural health care. The construction fences are in place and workers have...

A re-publishing of an edited paper written by Josephine Janes Mayer that was  presented here in Ticonderoga ~ at the Hancock House ~ on...

A pictorial tribute to our sixteenth president ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ on the 208th anniversary of his birth in Hardin County, Kentucky. His...

We continue with Elmer Eugene Barker’s article – “Letters of Charles Franklin Hammond to his son John, 1849-1850.” Altho there were no...

In the golden age of boating on Lake Champlain, so my father told me, steamboats made regularly scheduled landings at Crown Point (NY) by...

The following is another article written by Elmer Eugene Barker written in 1949.  “What Crown Pointers (NY) Were Reading One Hundred...

Toy Dolls do not seem to have existed among primitive peoples.  There were numerous images and idols, but objects so enwrapped in...