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2025 Conference
May 29-June 1, 2025
Conference Schedule (Final Schedule Updated: May 24, 2025): Please Click Here for the 2025 Conference Schedule
Please Click Here to Register and for More Information
(In Memory of James Kirby Martin)
Speakers and Topics Include:
Pulitzer Prize Winner Rick Atkinson - The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Major General Jason Q. Bohm USMC (Ret) - The Birth and Early Operations of the Marine Corps: 250 Years in the Making
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
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 - Marching from Peace into War: British Soldiers in 1775 America
Patrick H. Hannum - The Virginia Campaign of 1775-76: Kemp's Landing & Great Bridge
Wayne Lenig - The Mohawk Valley's Committee of Safety in 1775
James L. Nelson - Bunker Hill: The First Battle of the American Revolution
Eric H. Schnitzer - Breaking Convention: How a Fussy Detail about British Uniforms Doomed Burgoyne’s Army to Captivity
The James F. Morrison Mohawk Valley Resident Historian - 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
Sold Out - Bus Tour - Email info@fortplainmuseum.org to be put on the waiting list - We Stood Our Ground: Touring the Battles of Lexington & Concord 250 Years Later - Led by Alexander R. Cain - Thursday, May 29, 2025 - Lunch and a Copy of Cain's Book are Included.
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Open 5-Days a Week - 10 AM to 4 PM
Closed Tuesday and Wednesday
389 Canal Street, Fort Plain, NY 13339
America 250 Event
389 Canal Street, Fort Plain, NY 13339
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The Museum is Open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm. There will be daily events and book sales. Up to 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!
HUGE NEWS!
Pulitzer Prize Winner Rick Atkinson to Headline The Fort Plain Museum's American Revolutionary War Conference 250.
We are honored to have Rick Atkinson join us at our annual Revolutionary War Conference and we can't thank him enough. Rick will speak on his upcoming book, The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (release date Spring 2025). This is the Second Volume of Rick's Landmark American Revolution Trilogy.
Preorder The Fate of the Day by Clicking Here
Sir William Johnson & Robert Rogers
The Fort Plain Speaker/Book Series
Sir William Johnson and Robert Rogers: The History of a Troubled Relationship with Martin Klotz - Author of Robert Rogers, Ranger, The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
Date & Time: Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2 PM
Preregistration is Required: Cost is $10 - Includes Talk and Catered Homemade Pastries with Beverages - Book will be Available at Discounted Price
Online: Please Click Here to Order an Online Ticket
Email: info@fortplainmuseum.org with Names of Attendees, Email Address, and Phone Number
Thank you to our Sponsors/Supporters!
Thank you to our Museum Sponsors and Supporters, we truly appreciate it!
Christmas at the Fort
The Museum is Located at 389 Canal Street, Fort Plain, NY 13339
Up to 50% Off Select Titles - Many to Choose From - All other books and gift shop items 25% Entire Purchase
German Beer will be served by Eisenadler Brauhaus
There will be plenty Refreshments and Christmas Cheer!
The Three Sisters
The Three Sisters
Presented by Lori Mead, Fort Plain Museum Member and Volunteer
Saturday, November 23rd at 1 PM at 389 Canal Street, Fort Plain, NY 13339
Book Talk - Defending For Stanwix
Today - NEW BOOK Release Talk Featuring William Larry Kidder on his new book: Defending Fort Stanwix: A Story of the New York Frontier in the American Revolution
Saturday, November 16, 2024 - 6 pm to 8 pm - at the SUNY Fulton-Montgomery Community College
Please Click Here to Register
For those who can't make the talk tonight, Larry will be signing his new book at the Museum today from Noon to 3 PM today. Call 518-993-2527 for more information.