17th Settlement and Raid
Step back into 1774 for a weekend of battles, demonstrations and immersive learning. Watch the fort come to life with blacksmithing, gun making, and even a church service on Sunday.

Step back into 1774 for a weekend of battles, demonstrations and immersive learning. Watch the fort come to life with blacksmithing, gun making, and even a church service on Sunday.
Come to Independence National Historic Park and hear the Philadelphia Tour Guides Association tell the under-emphasized history and the history that the Trump Adminstration hopes to censor. We are telling […]
Every year, the Friends of Monmouth Battlefield, in collaboration with the DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) of the State of New Jersey, co-sponsors an annual reenactment of the battlefield. This […]
We are all familiar with the impact of Enlightenment thinking on the politics of the American Revolutions. Overtures or Locke and Rousseau are found in debates leading to the Declaration […]
Join us this July 4th, 2026 for our largest artillery demonstration of the year! Our historic interpreters are recreating the 18 shot National Salute that soldiers fired here on Independence […]