Ethan Allen in Castleton - 250th Anniversary recorded on May 9, 2025

Three weeks after the war began between the American colonies and Great Britain, patriots from New England quietly prepared to seize British forts, which overlook Lake Champlain, in order to take cannon away from enemy strongholds. A council of war, held in Castleton several hours before the first of two forts were liberated, was the gathering where Ethan Allen was chosen to lead the expedition and where he sent Samuel Herrick to Whitehall (then Skenesborough) New York and where he dispatched Major Beach to alert patriot men of the need to gather in Shoreham and then take control of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. In 1925, 1953, and 1975, this 1775 historical event was celebrated, so now volunteers have produced a 250th anniversary celebration for this generation of Vermonters and Americans.