Taking a trip to visit the restored Fort Ontario [Video]

In Oswego, visitors can experience the military history of Fort Ontario. A new exhibit opened there in June, showing what a soldier’s life was like in the 1800s.

People have been restoring the Fort since the mid-1980s. And now, with the completion of the soldier’s barracks, that restoration work has finally finished.

Now, when visitors step into the Fort Ontario barracks, they’ll be transported to the 1800s. Period-specific bunks and uniform-dressed mannequins mimic life as a soldier.

“We focus a lot on military history, of course, because it’s a fort and there’s lots of battles here. But people really connect with how soldiers were living on a day-to-day basis and, and seeing how they slept and how they ate and all of these parts of their lives … allows us to connect with them as humans,” said Danielle Funiciello, the interpretive programs assistant at Fort Ontario.

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