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Fort Ticonderoga History:
Fort Ticonderoga Museum Collections
Since 1909 the Fort Ticonderoga Museum has actively collected artwork, books, maps, manuscripts, and objects associated with
- The French & Indian and American Revolutionary Wars
- The history of the Fort and its occupying armies
- The military, cultural, and tourism history of Lake Champlain and Lake George
Types of Collections
Library Collection
The library contains over 13,000 volumes focusing on the military and cultural history of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada during the 18th century, including
- The William L. Stone Collection – The Stone Collection was the first acquisition the museum made. The collection includes Stone’s personal copies of nineteenth-century scholarship on the War for American Independence. Many of these books include his personal annotations and tipped-in collections of correspondence and supporting documentation
- Military Manuals - The collection of original 17th, 18th and early 19th-century manuals includes most of the major French, English and American works on the art of war, military discipline, and fortification
- 18th century English and American newspapers and literary magazines - This collection presents the “breaking news” coverage of all the major events during the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean
- 19th-century guidebooks – Including tourism guides to the Adirondacks, Lake George, and Lake Champlain
Archival Collections
The archival collections consist of thousands of manuscripts, letters, diaries, orderly books, maps, and photographs related to the Fort, its occupying armies, and its restoration.
- letters, reports, returns, journals, and orderly books from officers and soldiers who served at Fort Ticonderoga during the French & Indian War and American Revolution
- Artworks, including
- maps documenting the change in the landscape from the 1690s to the mid 19th century.
- Prints and paintings related to the Fort, the people, and the landscape
- Photographic collections documenting the preservation, reconstruction, and tourism of Fort Ticonderoga during the 19th and 20th centuries
Object Collections
Fort Ticonderoga preserves one of the oldest and broadest collections of 18th-century military material culture in North America, including
- Weapons – nearly eight hundred muskets, bayonets, pistols, swords and pole arms representing most of the major types of weapons used in the colonial wars and struggle for American Independence
- 18th-century artillery – Approximately 200 hundred pre-1800 cannon, mortars, and howitzers from America, England, France, and Holland
- Engraved powder horns – 75 engraved powder horns from the last half of the 18th century and later
- Uniforms – includes approximately fifty 18th and 19th-century American and British uniform coats, as well as nearly 100 early military and civilian hats
For more information about the library and archive collections please see the Research Bibliographies. Also many of our manuscripts and objects have been published in the Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum.
