Rev. War-Museums, Historical Parks and Re-enactors
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 Riley's Farm, Oak Glen, CA Re-live that great struggle with us and bring the American Revolution alive. Riley's Farm is a working apple orchard and living history farm in the Oak Glen area of Southern California. Riley's Farm is a venue for re-enactment units comprising many different eras. |
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The Brigade of the American Revolution The Brigade of the American Revolution represent elements of all the armies then involved: Continental, Militia, British, Loyalist, German, French, Spanish, and Native American forces plus civilian men, women and children. Branches of service represented: Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, Musicians, Artificers, Engineers, Riflemen, Militia, Naval Forces, Marines, as well as other military and civilian personnel. Women of the period,are represented in all of the various roles that women held. They enact their roles as officer's ladies, soldiers wives , or camp followers. The ladies and wives also do many of the crafts and daily chores that would have been done in the camp. Without the women, the 18th century armies would have had a more difficult time than they did; women were an integral part of armies of the period. The Brigade has an active Children's Program in which youngsters learn and practice games and chores of 18th Century children at their age. |
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G. Gedney Godwin-The Sutler of Mount Misery Complete line of items useful to the military man; such as muskets, bayonets, leather goods, uniforms, cocked hats, diverse sorts of brazen sundries, etc. |
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Jas. Townsend and Son Mail order company that supplies 18th and 19th century reproductions for living history. They specialize in Historic Clothing, Camp Gear, Tents, Books, Music, Knives, Tomahawks, Oak kegs and other assorted goods for people or organizations reenacting the periods from 1750 to 1840 especially the French and Indian War, American Revolution, and War of 1812. |
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Smiling Fox Forge 18th century re-enactors top of the line 18th century clothing and 18th century reproductions. Gentleman, Ladies and Children Smiling Fox Forge LLC looks forward to filling every 18th century man, 18th century woman, and 18th century child's dreams. |
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Historically Correct Knapsacks & Haversacks Historically Correct Knapsacks & Haversacks and other items. |
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The Colonial Market Links to various Merchants and Craftspeople specializing in Colonial items. |
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Sew it Seams Historically correct clothing for museums, re-enactors, or anyone needing clothing representative of the 1600's - 1890's |
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Old Dominion Forge Hand-forged knives, swords and axes, also casts pewter items. They also stock other items, but cutlery will always be their focal point. |
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Backwoods Tin & Copper Mostly hand made items from tin, copper and stainless steel. |
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Bakertown Sutlers Specializing in mid-18th century (1730-1770) textiles, wares and shooting supplies. They also have a research library to assist in developing hictoric personas. |
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Reenactor Links page Lots of links to Revolutionary War Reenactors. |
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The Engagement at Point of Fork An actual reenactment of the action at Point of Fork occurs one day of the event, with a tactical demonstration on the next. An after-hours, freeform tactical on one of the days. Black Powder Safety Regulations will be followed by all participants in this event. |
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Cowpens National Battlefield Cowpens National Battlefield commemorates a decisive battle that helped turn the tide of war in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. |
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Crysler's Farm Battlefield Memorial The Friends of Crysler's Farm will be staging a re-enactment of the battle that halted the November, 1813 invasion of Canada. See their schedule of events for when this event is held each year. Re-enactors portraying American and Anglo-Canadian armies and His Majesty's Mohawk Allies will take part in three battles. |
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Prophecy Creek Park Prophecy Creek Park and The Manor House 295 Skippack Pike (Route 73) and Narcissa Road Ambler, Pennsylvania Whitpain Township, Montgomery County Check for their living history event a revolutionary war re-enactment. |
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The Danvers Alarm List Coy The Danvers Alarm List Coy is a group of 18th century living history reeanactors that portray the militia, minute and alarm companies of Danvers and surrounding communities, as they existed in the 1774-1775 timeframe. The Alarm List Coy. presents its impression to the public through demonstrations, exhibitions, parades, living history encampments and battle reenactments. |
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Living History Association They sponsor historical reenactments at the LHA Museum and throughout the country. These groups host living history events, ranging from the middle ages through World War II, with volunteers who are dressed in period attire and portray civilian as well as military lifestyles of their given time period. |
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City of Petersburg Revolutionary War Site You will find information on the Battle of Petersburg, significant historical sites related to the revolution, Petersburg's Living History Program (annual reenactment in April of each year), and Major General William Phillips (the eminent Britsh commander who died and is buried in Petersburg). |
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Fort Lee Historic Park On a cliff-top bluff where the Continental Army placed its batteries over the Hudson, a quarter-mile east of the site of Fort Lee, the 33-acre Historic Park blends scenic beauty and history. |
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Kearney House In the early hours of 20 November 1776, a British force led by Lieutenant General Lord Charles, Earl of Cornwallis, crossed the Hudson to New Jersey for a surprise attack on the Continental Army at Fort Lee. Between three and five thousand men crossed the river in flatboats to climb the Palisades on a primitive farm road. Washington got word of the invasion before the British reached Fort Lee; the Continental Army then began its famous "Retreat to Victory" across New Jersey. |
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RevList RevList is an active community of living historians, re-enactors, research historians, historical writers, genealogists, and other persons interested in the period of time during which the American War of Independence was fought. |
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The Coalition of Historical Trekkers Walking in the footsteps of History. The Coalition of Historical Trekkers, are dedicated to the preservation and study of the pre-1860 frontier people in America by means of literary research and experimental archaeology. |
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The Burning of the Valleys Military Association The BVMA is composed of Congressional and Crown units to provide historic recreations of events taking place in the Schoharie, Mohawk, and Upper Hudson Valleys between the years 1775-1782. |
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The 6th Connecticut Living Historians A group of people that love history and try and portray their forefathers and mothers to the best of their ability. |
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6th Penn regiment Continually travels to many interesting historical sites to provide a Living Historian's view of training camps, skirmishes, major battles, grand encampments and even community festivals. We participate in school programs and teaching, endeavoring to bring \Living History" to as many people as we can. Today |
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The North Carolina Historical Reenactment Society The North Carolina Historical Reenactment Society. The Sixth North Carolia Regiment. |
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Dixie Gun Works Black powder guns, antique gun parts and shooting supplies. |
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Colonial Williamsburg In Colonial Williamsburg's 301-acre Historic Area stand hundreds of restored, reconstructed, and historically furnished buildings. Costumed interpreters tell the stories of the men and women of the 18th-century city's black, white, and native American, slave, indentured, and freed and the challenges they faced. In this historic place, we help the future learn from the past. The world's largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia the restored 18th-century capital of Britain's largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World. |
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The Fifth Connecticut Regiment The Fifth CT Regiment is made up of people who are interested in the history of this country and teaching others through living history. |
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2nd New Jersey Regiment Dedicated to portraying the men and women of the 2nd New Jersey Regiment during the War for American Independence. |
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The Northwest Territory Alliance The Northwest Territory Alliance (NWTA) is an American Revolutionary War reenactment organization located in the American Midwest. |
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Fort Ticonderoga Fort Ticonderoga National Historic Landmark. Visit and come away with a deeper understanding of American history from the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War periods of the 18th century. Your visit will include rich and varied offerings including costumed interpreters, 30-minute guided tours, a world class museum, daily musket demonstrations, and self-guided tours of the Fort. |
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FORTRESS OF LOUISBOURG NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE OF CANADA (N.S.) Each summer the Fortress springs to life. Dozens of costumed animators become the town's residents of the summer of 1744. Period homes, exhibits and theme centres line the central streets of Rue Toulouse and Rue Royale, as well as along the busy waterfront (quay). Men, women and children enact the full range of society from the leisurely activities of the rich to the hard physical labour of the poor. You'll see engineers, musicians, soldiers, merchants, street vendors, bakers, servants and fishermen. The \residents" will surprise and delight you with stories |
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American Independence Museum American Independence Museum is a place for the study, research, education and interpretation of the American Revolution and of the role that New Hampshire, Exeter, and the Gilman family played in the founding of the new republic. Located at One Governors |
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Strawbery Banke Museum Step over the threshold of history to life in New Hampshire's oldest seacoast neighborhood. Experience life from the late 1600s to the 1950s in this neighborhood known as Puddle Dock. The site, known today as Strawbery Banke Museum, offers a glimpse into |
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Old Sturbridge Village Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is a history museum and learning resource that invites all visitors to find meaning, pleasure, relevance, and inspiration in the exploration of New England's past. |
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Pennsylvania State Navy Pennsylvania State Navy educates the public about the American Revolution, the Pennsylvania State Navy of 1775 to 1781 and the defense of Philadelphia in the fall of 1777. This is accomplished through living history reenactments and public educational pr |
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Valley Forge Valley Forge National Historical Park commemorates more than the collective sacrifices and dedication of the Revolutionary War generation, it pays homage to the ability of everyday Americans to pull together and overcome adversity during extraordinary tim |
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Boston Discover the revolutionary generation of Bostonians who blazed a trail from colonialism to independence. In downtown Boston, Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House and Old North Church bring to life the American ide |
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Colonial National Historical Park Colonial National Historical Park (NHP) administers two of the most historically significant sites in English North America. Historic Jamestowne, the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607, jointly administered with the Association fo |
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Fort Stanwix National Monument Heritage comes alive everyday, and explore the sights, sounds, smells and feel of the 18th century. Discover how people endured harsh lives along the Oneida Carrying Place, the superhighway of the 18th century, and directly contributed to the American vic |
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George Rogers Clark National Historical Park A classic memorial stands on the site of Fort Sackville to commemorate the capture of the fort from British Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton and his soldiers by Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark and his frontiersmen on February 25, 1779. |
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Guilford Courthouse National military Park The battle fought at the small North Carolina backcounty hamlet of Guilford Courthouse on Thursday, March 15, 1781, was the largest, most hotly-contested action of the Revolutionary War's climactic Southern Campaign. |
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Independence National Historical Park Independence National Historical Park is located in downtown (called \Center City\"), Philadelphia, is often referred to as the birthplace of our nation. At the park, visitors can see the Liberty Bell, an international symbol of freedom, and Independence |
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Kings Mountain National Military Park Kings Mountain National Military Park commemorates a pivotal and significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. The battle fought on October 7, 1780 destroyed the left wing of Cornwa |
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Longfellow National Historic Site General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the newly-formed Continental Army, headquartered and planned the Siege of Boston here between July, 1775 and April, 1776. |
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Minute Man National Historical Park At Minute Man National Historical Park, the Battles of Lexington and Concord are brought to life through the preservation, restoration and interpretation of significant sites from \that famous day and year\" when Colonists took up arms in defense of liber |
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Moores Creek National Battlefield \King George and Broadswords!\" shouted loyalists as they charged across partially dismantled Moores Creek bridge on February 27, 1776. Just beyond the bridge nearly a thousand North Carolina patriots waited quietly with cannons and muskets poised to fire |
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Morristown National Historical Park The national park consists of four non-contiguous units: Washington's Headquarters with the Ford Mansion and Headquarters Museum, the Fort Nonsense Unit, the Jockey Hollow Unit, and the New Jersey Brigade Area. The Jockey Holl |
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Ninety Six National Historic Site Ninety Six figured prominently in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. The first land battle south of New England was fought here in 1775 and in 1780, the British fortified the strategically important frontier town. From May 22 - June 18, 178 |
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Saratoga National Historical Park Site of the first significant American military victory during the Revolution, the Battles of Saratoga rank among the fifteen most decisive battles in world history. Here in 1777 American forces met, defeated and forced a major British army to surrender, |
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Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial Thaddeus Kosciuszko was one of the first European volunteers to aid the American revolutionary cause in 1776. A brilliant Polish military engineer, Kosciuszko designed and constructed fortifications to help defeat the British, most notably at Saratoga and |
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Adams National Historical Park Encompasses five generations of the Adams family (from 1720 to 1927) including two Presidents and First Ladies, three U.S.Ministers, historians, writers and family members who supported and contributed to the success of these public figures. |
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George Washington Birthplace National Momument George Washington was America?ï?¿?½?Ã?¢?ï?¿?½?Â???ï?¿?½?Â??s first and greatest hero. During the Revolution, he turned undisciplined militia into the victorious army at Yorktown. Under his leadership, the Constitutional Convention forged a people?ï?¿?½?Ã? |
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Thomas Jefferson Memorial Park Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia and third President of the United States. |
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Washington Momument Alone among the Founders of the United States George Washington earned the title \Father of his Country\" in recognition of his leadership in the cause of American independence. Appointed commander of the Continental Army in 1775, he molded a fighting for |
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Replications Company Handsewn Regimentals. |
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Castle Keep Reenactor's Supply Dedicated to Authentic Living History. |
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Field Music of the American Revolution NWTA, and BAR are all American Revolution reenactment organizations that's objective is to portray the American Revolution as authentically as possible. They put on weekend long shows throughout the Northeast United States. Th |
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Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums |
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Loyalist Arms and Repair They supply weapons, armor, clothing and accessories of all types from the Roman Period to the late 19th Century. |
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The American Heritage Festival The American Heritage Festival is a grand scale educational presentation of diverse civilian and military aspects of historic American life as portrayed by a large and experienced cast of historical interpreters assembled from around the country. Included are battle reenactments, portrayals of famous men and women, musicians, craftsmen, colonists, pioneers, mountain men, and more ranging from Colonial times and the American Revolution, through Pioneer days, the Civil War, the Old West and on through WW II and Vietnam. A tribute to veterans and an 18th century style church service in the fields based on the \Great Awakening" are just two of the many special features. Men |
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Patriots Week Patriots Week is a celebration of the city's unique and pivotal role in the birth of an American nation. Patriots? |
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Revoluntionary War Road Trip Driving Tours Fasten Your Seat Belts for NINE One-Day Driving Tours (and a Canal Cruise) that Trace the American Revolution along America's Most Scenic Highways |
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Kalamazoo Living history Show Each year the focus of the show changes allowing various historical reenactment groups, organizations and individuals, dressed in period clothing, the opportunity to host the show and share their knowledge and enthusiasm of history with all of us. |
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List of links to Philadelphia Reenactors List of links to Philadelphia Reenactors: 1st Battalion New Jersey Volunteers 1st Continental Regiment of Foot 1st New Jersey Regiment - Col. Ogden's 1st Pennsylvania Battalion 2nd New Jersey Regiment, Helm's Company 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment, Light Company 4th Continental Light Dragoons, Captain Moore Fauntleroy's Troop 5th Pennsylvania Regiment 6th Pennsylvania Regiment 11th Pennsylvania Regiment 17th Regiment of Foot, Light Company 43rd Regiment of Foot Coren's Independent Artillery Coryell's Ferry Militia, 22 South Main Street, New Hope, Pa. 18938 Telephone (215) 862 2050 Infanterie Regiment von Donop Pennsylvania State Navy Proctor's Pennsylvania Artillery Company Pulaski's Independent Legion |
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RENDEZVOUS, REENACTMENTS & EVENTS This calendar of Rendezvous, Mountain Man, Muzzleloading or Reenactment related events is brought to you as a courtesy of Crazy Crow Trading Post to help keep you up-to-date on the latest happenings. |
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Ruiter's Company of Kings Rangers The recreated King's Rangers, Ruiters (3rd) Company, based in Woodstock Vermont, strives to accurately portray the soldiers and camp followers of the Revolution. Members are from Quebec, Ontario, Vermont, and New Hampshire. The King's Rangers are members of the British Brigade (an umbrella organization for reenactors). |
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Reenacting.net A list of URLS devoted to reenacting and Living History, and to sharing their reenacting histories. The list is focus mostly on the 18th century in North America, with a bit of the early 19th century. |
