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Museum is Open Weekends!

The Museum is Open on Weekends, 10 am to 4 pm. There will be daily events and we extended our huge book sale. 25% off your entire purchase and 50% off select titles. Please visit us at 389 Canal Street, Fort Plain, NY 13339. 

Thank you for Supporting the Fort Plain Museum & Historical Park!

2025 Conference

Save-the-Date

The American Revolutionary War Conference 250

May 29-June 1, 2025

Speakers Confirmed (More will be added and topics updated soon)

Major General Jason Q. Bohm USMC - 250^th United States Marine Corp

Alexander R. Cain - We Stood Our Ground: 250th of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775

Abby Chandler - Choosing Sides: North Carolina's Regulator Rebellion and the American Revolution

Gary Ecelbarger - The Mammoth of Monmouth: George Washington's 1778 Campaign in New Jersey

Michael P. Gabriel - Richard Montgomery and the Other Invasion of Canada

Shirley L. Green - Integrating Enslaved and Free: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary Black Regiment

Don N. Hagist - State of British Army in 1775

Patrick H. Hannum - Great Bridge and Kemps Landing, Virginia 1775

Edward G. Lengel - 250^th General George Washington and the Continental Army

Wayne Lenig - Committee of Safety and the Mohawk Valley in 1775

James Kirby Martin - Setting the Stage for Bloody Warfare in the Mohawk Valley: Neutrality versus Partisan Combat in 1775

James L. Nelson - Bunker Hill: The First Battle of the American Revolution

Jane Simpson, U.E. - Twice Refugees: A Huguenot Family’s Shades of Allegiance in Dutchess and Westchester County New York, during the American Revolution

William P. Tatum III, Ph.D. - “To Quell, Suppress, and Bring Them to Reason by Force:” Combatting the Loyalist Threat in New York during 1775

Bruce M. Venter - "It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones": Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys Take Fort Ticonderoga

Bus Tour - We Stood Our Ground: Battles of Lexington & Concord, April 19, 1775 - Led by Alexander R. Cain