Expedition to Ticonderoga- America's First Victory

Name: Expedition to Ticonderoga- America's First Victory
Start: 2025-05-01T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-04T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Bennington VT

Schedule

Thu, 01 May, 2025 at 08:00 am to Sun, 04 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Bennington VT | Bennington, VT

The Bennington County 250th Committee has planned a four-day celebration of the 250th anniversary of the victorious 1775 Patriot expedition to capture Fort Ticonderoga in the first days of May 2025. On Thursday and Friday May 1 and 2, the focus will be on education. 4th graders from public and private schools in Bennington and other SVSU towns will go on a guided field trip to historical sites in Old Bennington that will take them from the Bennington Museum to the Bennington Monument. On Saturday, the activities continue in the Southshire with events throughout the day at sites from Pownal to Shaftsbury, including the Southern Vermont HomeBrew Festival. On Sunday, the commemorations continue into the Northshire, with destinations in Arlington, Sunderland, Manchester, and Dorset before we hand off a ceremonial powder horn to the group that will take it northward to re-enact the capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British on the morning of May 10, 1775, by a force famously led by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys.
For more information and a brochure with the official schedule of events and map, please visit https://www.bennington250.org/expedition.