Trail of Courage Living History Festival, Rochester

September 15th-16th, 2001
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m daily
Rochester, Indiana
Admission: Adults - $5, Ages 6-12 - $1, Bus students - $1, Ages 5 and under -FREE
Step back into Fulton County's frontier past with a visit to this historic living history festival of pre-1840. Visit a variety of historic encampments representing the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, Plains Indians, Woodland Indians - Miami and Potawatomi life ways, and voyaguers with canoes. Enjoy period music and dance, bagpipes and Scottish dancers, marching fife and drum corps, a frontier fashion show and Indian lore. See demonstrations of early American and Indian skills and wares such as broom making, spinning, candle dipping, flintknapping, Indian beadwork and more. Savor a variety of foods ranging from buffalo burgers, Indian fry bread, venison stew, and apple dumplings, to popcorn and potato chips made in big iron kettles. You'll be sure to find something you'll like! Make your way to the Chippeway Village portraying frontier Northern Indiana of 1832 with its pioneer and Indian crafts, post office, storytellers, Frontier Blab School and 18th century puppet show. Observe muzzleloading shooting and tomahawk contests, blanket trading as well as a canoe landing and fur trading skit. Make sure you visit the Elk Dog Clan Log Trading Post before leaving. Canoe rides available. FREE tram rides from FREE parking field to festival!