Heritage Day Fall Festival

The Daniel Boone Homestead will come alive with the sights, smells, and sounds of colonial America during our Heritage Day Fall Festival. Celebrate the arrival of Fall with your family and friends. This event will feature a variety of colonial and early American demonstrations, trades, and hands-on activities. It will include some new participants and demonstrations this year while also continuing our celebration of America250. This year’s highlights include blacksmithing, gunsmithing, leatherworking, open hearth cooking, tinsmithing, spinning, gardening, and an eighteenth-century fashion display. Visitors will hear from living history interpreters about the colonial militia and Dragoons and can participate in a muster activity using wooden dummy guns and swords. The event also includes a variety of artisan craft and specialty food vendors plus fall activities for children like pumpkin painting. Stone House History will be returning this year with their tape weaving and wood carving demonstrations and colonial musician Robert Mouland will be entertaining visitors all afternoon with his historic instruments and dancing puppets. Plus, enjoy music from the Brandywine Fife and Drum Corps and learn about the importance of the fife and drum during the American Revolution. We are excited to also have Coffee with a Colonial joining us for the first time this year, giving visitors unique insight into this important colonial beverage. In addition to demonstrations and trades, there will be a variety of eighteenth-century hands-on activities for children and adults to enjoy including candle dipping, quill pen writing, and colonial toys and games. Visitors are invited to tour the two historic houses onsite – the Boone House and the Bertolet Log House – and learn about the three families who lived on the property in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Inside the Boone House, visitors can view the Apothecary display featuring period medical instruments. Make sure to visit the spring cellar too – the oldest part of the Boone House. On your way through the Boone Yard, make a stop at the laundress and tailor. And don’t forget a visit to the unique, three-room Bertolet Log House, a prime example of early Germanic architecture. Admission: Adults $12.00, Seniors (65+) $10.00, Youth (6-17) $5.00. Children 5 and under and DBHA members are free. Please, no pets (except service animals) and no smoking. The event is presented and funded by The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates. We are excited to have the following vendors joining us for Heritage Day: Artisan Craft & Specialty Food Vendors and Merchants Bobbin and Treadle Liberty & Co. Naturally Lathered Tallow Beverage & Food Vendors Kline’s Kernels The Social Stable, LLC Wow Wagon Stay tuned for more details & vendor updates!