Walking Around Historic Ticonderoga, New York

Adam let me tag along for the William Shatner Event in Ticonderoga so I could walk around and get some pictures of this historic town.

Ticonderoga is well known in American history.  Its fort was the site of battles during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.

Ticonderoga's Town Hall was

built by Industrialist Horace

Moses, a Ticonderoga native,

in 1927 & donated to the 

community.

Town Hall was built in the Neo-Georgian Style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The American Legion
Hall is in a Romanesque
Revival building.

I admire the bay windows

 & cornice on this brick

building.

The Country Florist 

& Gifts sits next to...

... the La Chute River, which

winds through town

The Agway Building
has seen better days.

The tower on this house

is a feature of Queen

Anne architecture.

This Georgian Mansion is the
Hancock House,  a replica of
Thomas Hancock's (John
Hancock's uncle) home in
the Beacon Hill neighborhood
of Boston.




Built in 1926 by Industrialist Horace Moses and donated to the town, the home of the Ticonderoga Historical Society is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Liberty Monument, erected

 in 1924, was funded by

Horace Moses.

It is the focal point of the
rotary at the western end
of Montcalm Street.

Walking around this small town of 5,042, it's obvious that Ticonderoga had a prosperous past.

I went to the Black Watch

Memorial Library, built in
1905, to look into
Ticonderoga's history.





The town's economy prospered after ore was found on nearby Lead Mountain in the 1815 and Joseph Dixson, a local entrepreneur bought the patent for lead pencils.  He started the Dixon Ticonderoga Company, automated the pencil making process  and made Ticonderoga Pencils a staple in households, schools and businesses throughout the world. 

Ticonderoga's location, at the confluence of Lake George and Lake Champlain, made the town a transportation hub throughout the 1800s.  The region's abundant lumber was harvested and sold far and wide. 

The water power of the La Chute River was harnessed and paper mills, a book making company and a shirt factory employed many in the region.

Ticonderoga National Bank,

built in 1927 - 1929,  is

listed on the National

 Register of Historic Places.

The Colonial Revival Post
Office was built in the mid
1930s & is listed on the
National Register of 
Historic Places.

The Soldiers Monument, erected

in 1916, commemorates those

townsmen who offered their

lives for their country.

This Victorian home, built
with rusticated stone is
beautiful. 

 The Tudor Revival Ticonderoga

Armory, built in 1935, is now

 the town's Community Center.

This is the second Church
Church of the Cross.

The first church, built in
1871, burned in 1884.





The "new church" was consecrated in 1885 and continues to serve Episcopalians in Ticonderoga.

St. Mary's Catholic Church,

 built in 1889 - 1891, is listed

on the National Register of

Historic Places.

Tree branches obscure 

the spire on First 

Baptist Church.  

This large Second Empire

home reminds me of the

houses in Mary Poppins.

I love the wrap around porch
on this Victorian home. 

Ticonderoga High School was

built in 1926 & has several

additions.

This Colonial Revival-Neo-Georgian school was built in 1928 - 1931 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

All of these buildings are within a 20 minute walk from Star Trek: The Original Set site on Montcalm Street.  I recommend the drive north to tour Fort Ticonderoga and to stroll this 

lovely small town.