General Grant and the Rewriting of History
Friday, July 21st, the Ticonderoga Historical Society introduces Dr. Frank Varney, a Ticonderoga native, presenting a Civil War themed...
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tihistory1764
Jul 13, 201711 min read
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 9, 20172 min read
“Liberated Ladies”
“Liberated Ladies” A must see ~~ “Liberated Ladies” ~~ on the Hancock House lawn A Free Community Concert July 15th, 2017 at 7 PM The...
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tihistory1764
Jul 8, 20175 min read
Moses-Ludington Hospital, a Retrospective Review
For nearly one hundred and ten years there has been a medical facility sitting at the top of “the hill” here in Ticonderoga. Over those...
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tihistory1764
Jul 2, 20174 min read
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
May 29, 20171 min read
Ticonderoga’s Memorial Day ~~ 2017
“I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on...
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tihistory1764
May 14, 20173 min read
A Fort Crown Point Day
Sunday, May 13th, 2017 was a memorial unveiling of a “New” Knox Cannon Trail” marker at the Crown Point State (NY) Historic Site. From...
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tihistory1764
Apr 23, 20179 min read
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 13, 20176 min read
Votes for Women New Exhibit
On Friday, April 7th we opened our 2017 program season with “Votes for Women.” This program and a related exhibit was curated by Diane...
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tihistory1764
Apr 1, 20175 min read
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, 201714 min read
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 19, 20172 min read
A Trip to the Mount
As we recognize 2017’s Presidents Day, a fairly recent designation where two of our earlier president’s birthdays ~~ Washington and...
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tihistory1764
Feb 12, 20172 min read
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, 201717 min read
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, 201713 min read
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, 20179 min read
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, 20168 min read
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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tihistory1764
Dec 21, 20161 min read
In Rememberance – Pan Am Flight 103
There has been so many acts of terrorism in recent years that has touched so many of our families here in this region. On this day...
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tihistory1764
Dec 18, 20168 min read
Early Days of Ticonderoga and the Flint Family
This writer in an attempt to review and organize a bit of the stored material accumulated over the last several decades in my attic...
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