Rather than being at the mercy of public budgets, Ticonderoga (originally named Ft Carillon when built by the French) has had the benefit of being in private hands with the intent of preservation since 1820, with research leading to renovation beginning in 1904.
For anyone interested - here's a link to the history of the fort and some pix of Ticonderoga from summer 2005... http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org/history/timeline.htm http://www.studio1941.com/new_york/html/ft_ticonderoga_007.htm http://www.studio1941.com/new_york/html/ft_ticonderoga_010.htm http://www.studio1941.com/new_york/html/ft_ticonderoga_011.htm http://www.studio1941.com/new_york/html/ft_ticonderoga_014.htm http://www.studio1941.com/new_york/html/ft_ticonderoga_019.htm -p P. J. Alling wrote: > Well, nothing was built on top of it, and it's un-restored, the earth > works and stone retaining walls the held them in are still visible as > was the back exit and the trench that constituted a kind of tunnel or > covered way between the fort proper and the lower battery.. You should > visit Crown Point sometime, now that's a place where nothings left. I > believe it was as large a fortification as Ticonderoga in upstate NY and > there's less to see than Griswold which was a much smaller fort. Both > the latter forts were from an earlier era built by the super powers of > the day, and Fort Ty has been extensively reconstructed. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In a message dated 2/5/2008 7:09:33 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I decided to post one more from Ft. Griswold. Showing the parade >> grounds and the Obelisk, (battlefield memorial built in the 1920's, the >> US went kind of Obelisk crazy after the completion of the Washington >> Monument). >> >> http://www.mindspring.com/~happydogsoftware/PESO%20--%20%20ftgrisparobe.html >> >> Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax 17mm fisheye f4.0 >> >> Notes: Defished with PTLens, and perspective corrected. >> >> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. >> >> >> ============= -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
