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Fort Ontario Post Cemetery Lantern Tours are back by popular demand for FIVE nights!
Post Historian Corey King will guide visitors by lantern light on a walking tour of the Fort Ontario Post Cemetery.Tours will begin at 7:00PM at the Lake Ontario overlook parking lot at Fort Ontario State Historic Site.
Lantern light tours will include the history, myths and legends of the 77 people buried in the Post Cemetery from the French and Indian War through WWII. King will also discuss the headstones, and earlier graveyards at the fort. Popular and well known post cemetery residents such as Basil Dunbar and George Fykes will be included on the tours as well as others who met their end in battle, murder, disease, drowning, accident, suicide, natural and other causes.
Reservations for the tours are required in advance; tickets cost $15 per-person and are available for purchase in the museum shop inside the old stone fort during normal business hours or by phone (315-343-4711). All proceeds benefit the activities and educational programs of the not-for-profit group Friends of Fort Ontario.
Participants are encouraged to bring flashlights and dress for colder and winder weather conditions along the lake shore. For more information on the lantern tours or Fort Ontario, contact Corey King (315-343-4711) or [[email protected]].
Fort Ontario is located at the north end of East 4th Street in the city of Oswego, NY.
