tihistory1764Jul 3, 202017 minJuly 4th, 1861 Address delivered at Essex, NYFrom the archives of the Ticonderoga Historical Society we commemorate this 4th of July, 2020 by re-publishing a historical pamphlet —...
tihistory1764Jul 24, 201812 minNathaniel Miller, A Revolutionary SoldierA Revolutionary Soldier Who Settled in Ticonderoga Nathaniel Miller was born 7 May 1760 at Mt. Washington, Mass., a small township lying...
tihistory1764Feb 25, 201813 minNotes from Historical RecordingsThe steamer GANOUSKIE has been sold to a New York party and will be dismantled and fitted up for a dwelling house. **** Lake George...
tihistory1764Feb 18, 20186 minWhere West Meets EastFor many of our friends one of the numerous personalities that embodies the spirit of “The Wild West” may be in the person of “Buffalo...
tihistory1764Jan 13, 20184 minBurt Loescher’s Roger’s Rangers Unpublished NCOs List DigitizedBurt Garfield Loescher (1917-2006) is known to have been one of the early experts on Rogers’ Rangers and the American French and Indian...
tihistory1764Oct 31, 201710 minThe Beginning, the Settlement of TiconderogaDear Brother, I must inform you of the melancholy death of my Brother John. He was crossing from Fort George (Fort William Henry) the...
tihistory1764Oct 29, 20177 minA Scottish Ghost Story of YoreTiconderoga* 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,...
tihistory1764Oct 8, 20179 minMoriah’s Iron Ore OperationsA recent newspaper article provided a public update of a proposed application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding the...
tihistory1764Sep 23, 201717 minThe Journals of Arthur A. Carr — Part IIJan 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...
tihistory1764Sep 6, 201715 minHiking the Adirondack High PeaksThe Ticonderoga Historical Society has been the beneficiary of many wonderful gifts so far in 2017. From the accession records we share...
tihistory1764Jul 14, 201711 minBaldwin’s OverlandWanders still, we have threaded the silvery pathway of the Horican, (Lake George) and are drifting idly toward the gray old ruins of the...
tihistory1764Jul 2, 20174 minThe Fall of Fort Ticonderoga 1777The Fall of Fort Ticonderoga Early this morning, July 2nd, the block house at the lower falls was afire – the clouds of smoke announced...
tihistory1764Apr 23, 20179 minThe Anxious SeatBige (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...
tihistory1764Apr 1, 20175 minOnce 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...
tihistory1764Mar 12, 201714 minMajor Robert Rogers, TraderA re-publishing of an edited paper written by Josephine Janes Mayer that was presented here in Ticonderoga ~ at the Hancock House ~ on...
tihistory1764Feb 12, 20172 minA Tribute to Abe LincolnA pictorial tribute to our sixteenth president ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ on the 208th anniversary of his birth in Hardin County, Kentucky. His...
tihistory1764Jan 29, 201717 minGold Rush Letters – Father & Son ~ Part IIWe continue with Elmer Eugene Barker’s article – “Letters of Charles Franklin Hammond to his son John, 1849-1850.” Altho there were no...
tihistory1764Jan 15, 201713 minGold Rush Letters of Father & SonIn the golden age of boating on Lake Champlain, so my father told me, steamboats made regularly scheduled landings at Crown Point (NY) by...
tihistory1764Jan 8, 20179 minWhat Crown Pointers Were ReadingThe following is another article written by Elmer Eugene Barker written in 1949. “What Crown Pointers (NY) Were Reading One Hundred...
tihistory1764Dec 25, 20168 minEarly American DollsToy Dolls do not seem to have existed among primitive peoples. There were numerous images and idols, but objects so enwrapped in...