If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
– Rudyard Kipling
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
– Rudyard Kipling
Join us October 27th – 29th, 2023 for 18th Century Market Fair at Locust Grove! You can participate in 18th c. style entertainment, purchase replicas of 18th century military and household items, enjoy food and drink as our founders did, meet and converse with early Americans. Mock battles for our country’s independence will take place!
Experience Historic Locust Grove as it comes alive with the sounds of chatting and bargaining, the smells of wood smoke and gunpowder, and all the sights you would expect from a Market Fair set in the 1780s. Visitors will be able to converse with men, women, and children about life during the final years of the War for Independence, tour the historic house, and perhaps join in a militia drill or two. Guests can also learn songs and games from the period, and of course, shop at all the booths and tents that will spring up on the grounds! Vendors will be selling their period wares, from pottery to spoons to bread to bonnets. The property is divided between the Americans and the British, so be sure to take a tour of both camps to see and hear both sides of the story.
‘Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.’
– Benjamin Franklin