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Fort Ticonderoga.

Ticonderoga is on a stream which connects Lake George and Lake Champlain in northern New York. In colonial days the site controlled the water route running north and south via the Hudson River. Here the French built a fort called Carillon. The British and French battled over its possession until the French were expelled from Canada and estern America.

At the outbreak of the Revolution, Ethan Allen gathered a group of 100 Green Mountain Boys and on May 10, 1775, roused the sleeping British commander and demanded the surrender of the fort "in the name of the Great Jehovah and Continental Congress.

Later the fort passed into British hands and remained so until after the surrender of Burgoyne.

The stone from Ticonderoga was presented to camp by Master Walter F. Going, Jr. of Columbia.

[photograph of a fortification along a body of water]

THE PARAPET OF FORT TIGONDEROGA, OVERLOOKING LAKE CHAMPLAIN
"Lake Champlain is a noble sheet of water, as seen from the hills of Vermont, with the Adirondack peaks rising behind it"

[postcard of large grey stone house]
FORT TICONDEROGA