Friends of Fort Ontario Website

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Welcome to the Official Website of the Friends of Fort Ontario.

FAMILY FUN DAY AT FORT ONTARIO Photo caption; Historic games and activities will be featured at the Family Fun Day at Fort Ontario . [8 July 2010] On Wednesday, July 14, 2010, from 10:00 AM till 4:30 PM, Fort Ontario State Historic Site will host a Family Fun Day event for Children 12 years of age and younger featuring historic games such as Shinny, Croquet, Nine Pins, Whist, and Shut the Box. Other activities include a coloring contest, foot races, and Capture the Flag. Families are encouraged to bring a lunch and partake in Family Fun Day made possible by the Friends of Fort Ontario and Oswego County AmeriCorps. Cold refreshments will be provided. Admission for children age 12 and under is Free; adult admission is $4.00 and Senior/Student (13 and up) admission is $3.00. Those interested in volunteering please contact Brittany Patterson at Fort Ontario (343-4711). Fort Ontario State Historic Site is one of six historic sites and eighteen parks in the Central Region administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Carol Ash – Commissioner. For more information about NYS Parks visit the website at [www.nysparks.com]. Fort Ontario information can be obtained by calling Paul Lear, Historic Site Manager, at (315) 343-4711. CONTACT: Brittany Patterson Oswego AmeriCorps Fort Ontario State Historic Site (315) 343-4711



FORT REBUILT ... WITH CHOCOLATE Preserving history: The sweet smell of success By KEN STURTZ Staff Intern Published: Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:45 PM EDT Going into business should be more sweet than sour, and for a group of enterprising technology education students at SUNY Oswego, it certainly was. With some help from Man in the Moon Candies, the group developed and produced chocolate molds of historic Fort Ontario for a project in their manufacturing class. The students’ manufacturing class required them to form groups and work together on a semester-long project, which entailed conceptualizing a product, manufacturing it and then selling the finished product. The final hurdle of the project was that the group had to actually make and sell 99 units of their created product. Palladium-Times June 17, 2010 http://palltimes.com/articles/2010/06/18/news/doc4c1ac0d54c288984474009.txt

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We would like to thank all those who have helped in either calling or writing letters to our New York State representatives.



Fort Ontario State Historic Site One East Fourth Street Oswego, New York 13126 USA Telephone: 1-315-343-4711