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Tennessee River History/ Heritage/ & Weaponry Festival

Saltillo Community Center 47680 Hwy 69, Saltillo, TN, United States

Family friendly event aimed at the preservation of our history & ancestors. This event will be packed full of demonstrations, and hands on activities. Demonstrations will range from ( Period encampments/ cooking/ flintknapping/woodworking/ soap making/ firearm and artillery demonstrations/Field hospital & surgeon/ Colonial church service/ sutlers/ trade blankets/ Food & crafts/etc.)

M20CW-Soldiers Thru Time-Living History Timeline event

Fort Harrison State Park, Indianapolis, IN 5900 Post Road, Indianapolis,, IN, United States

The Museum of 20th Century Warfare and Ft. Harrison State Park will be hosting “Soldiers Thru Time” at the park . Visitors will see camps and displays set-up by re-enactors from many different time periods. Living historians spanning 2500 years of military history will be wearing clothing and uniforms from their chosen time period or […]

Free

Bloody Lake Rendezvous

Pre-1840 Encampment in Wisconsin. Emphasis is Fur Trade Era but any period from 1600-1840 acceptable. Shooting, tomahawk and knife throwing, primitive archery competitions, children’s games, evening entertainment, good and period appropriate vendors — a wonderful 6 day family event.

Olde Tyme Arts and Kraft Fair

Beall Woods State Park (IL) 9285 Beall Woods Ave, Mt Carmil, IL, United States

First Year Event!  Early Settler Theme/War of 1812 Music on 14 May 2:00 pm  by Dennis Stroughmatt and L'Espirit Creole

Free

Spring Gathering – 1st Annual Colonial Days at South Park

South Park 100 Brinkerhoff Ave, Mansfield, OH, United States

The Richland Early American Center for History invites you to discover life in early America during the 18th and 19th Century from living historical reenactors. Throughout the day there will be crafts, trades, demonstrations, and activities, including Blacksmithing, Games and Children’s Activities, Open Hearth Cooking Demonstrations, and Civilian and Military Reenactments.  Grounds feature the 1808 […]

Free

The Great Folle Avoine Fur Trade Rendezvous

One of the largest rendezvous in northern Wisconsin with campers and traders from all over the country. Set on an historic site where the XY company and the Northwest Company built their fur posts within 150 feet of each other. We have an 80 acre site with plenty of camp areas, firewood, and showers.  

$10 – $30

Carter Caves Pioneer Life Week 2022

1700 – 1840 Living History 6201 Kellogg Ave, Cincinnati, OH, United States

July 25 – 30: Pioneer Life Week: 30th Anniversary! During a week dedicated to the Revolutionary War, The War of 1812 and the settlement of lands around the Ohio River, re-enactors, and other special programs bring this rich heritage back to life. The pioneer camp is open from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday - […]

FREE CAMP
History Alive at Fort Piqua

History Alive at Fort Piqua

Johnston Farm and Indian Agency 9845 N. Hardin Road, Piqua, OH, United States

Living History time line from 1742-1865 sponsored by Wayne's Legion of Fort Piqua. Held at the historic Johnston Farm and Indian Agency in Piqua, Ohio. The timeline focuses on Ohio History from 1742-1865 specifically the area around the Johnston Farm. We have everything from Indian Agents, blacksmiths, various military groups, weavers, cannons, soap makers, the […]

$10

Galesburg Heritage Days

lake story park Galesburg, IL, United States

In this our 27th year, we are excited to bring you one of the Midwest's largest and most unique free public admission living history events to be held at historic Lake Storey Park in Galesburg Illinois. Lake Storey is on the far north side of town, with 430 acres of wooded and rolling lands, all […]

Compass Inn Museum August Living History: Proctor’s Independent Battalion

Compass Inn Museum 1386 US-30 East, Laughlintown, PA, United States

Journey back in time and visit with the soldiers and camp followers of the present-day Proctor’s. They portray the riflemen of the very first American Troops west of the Allegheny Mountains. In the mid-1700s, the ‘Wild West’ wasn’t as west as one would think. The Laurel Highlands separated the early Pennsylvania colony from the wild […]

$14

Fort Henry Days

Oglebay Park 465 Lodge Dr, Wheeling, WV, United States

Fort Henry Days is an authentic Revolutionary War reenactment encampment and market fair in Wheeling WV’s Oglebay Park. The event features regimental encampments, Native American encampments, a battle reenactment, authentic musicians, speakers, and a wide variety of sutlers and demonstrators. The event takes place around Levenson Shelter at Oglebay Park.

Free

A River Thru History Rendezvous

Take a voyage back in time to the fur trade era before Chicago became a city. New and returning reenactors are welcome to camp on the beautiful banks of the Des Plaines, the actual river on which Marquette and Joliet traveled in 1673, as they paddled up river towards present day Chicago. This is a […]

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