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Heritage Days

 

                                                                                              

Saturday, October 3, 2026

10 AM – 4 PM

Apple Butter Boil, Native American Artifact appraisals, Susquehanna Travelers music, Martha Washington reenactor, Colonial Demonstrations, Children’s Games with the Boy Scouts, Ground penetrating radar demonstration with Susquehanna University students, Native American and Regiment encampments

  • 10 AM – Flag Raising with 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment
  • 10 AM – Butchering
  • 10:30 AM – Herb Gardening
  • 11 AM – Battle of Fort Freeland Reenactment
  • 1:30 PM – Martha Washington talking about life with George, house porch
  • 2 PM – Battle of Fort Freeland Reenactment
  • 2:30 PM – Capitulation of Fort Freeland presentation on house porch, by Lynn Otto
  • 3:30 PM – Apprentice Parade
  • 4 PM – Lowering of the Flag with the Fort Augusta Regiment 

 

Sunday, October 4, 2026

10 AM –  Historic Warrior Run Church service with Pastor Shawn McNett

 11 AM – 4 PM Hower-Slote grounds

Apple Butter Boil, Native American Artifact appraisals, Strolling Dulcimer, Martha Washington Reenactor, Colonial Demonstrations, Children’s Games with the Boy Scouts, Ground penetrating radar demonstration with Susquehanna University students, Native American and Regiment encampments

  • 11 AM – Flag Raising with the Fort Augusta Regiment
  • 12:00 PM – Herb Gardening
  • 1 PM – Battle of Fort Freeland Reenactment
  • 1:30 PM – Native Trades presentation at Native Camp teepee, by Lynn Otto
  • 3 PM – Apprentice Auction
  • 3:30 PM – Apprentice Parade
  • 4 PM – Lowering of the Flag with the Fort Augusta Regiment

 

Specific events and demonstrators: Heritage Days Weekend 2026 Schedule

 

Admission Rates
Adults $8
Weekend Pass $12
Students $2

Children Under 5 – FREE

 

Food sales under the barn include homemade ham & bean soup, chicken corn soup, hotdogs, hamburgers, hot and cold cider, water, birch beer, root beer, water, pie by the slice, whoopie pies, and fry pies!

 

Continuing to celebrate America 250!

 

Join the Warrior Run-Fort Freeland Heritage Society to continue celebrating our great country for America 250 by making a patriotic star quilling project on Saturday, October 24th, at 10am at the Delaware Township Building.

 

What is quilling?

Quilling is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. The paper shape is manipulated to create designs on their own or to decorate other objects, such as greetings cards, pictures, boxes, or to make jewelry. Quilling quickly spread to America, with its popularity being during the colonial period.

 

Information:

· The project is a beginner level class

· The final project will be in a framed in a 5”x 5” shadow box

· Cost is $45 per person

· Class will be held at the Delaware Township Building (1960 8th St Dr, Watsontown, PA 17777)

· All materials and tools required will be provided

· If you use reading glasses, it is recommended to bring them

· Class will last approximately 1-2 hours

· Beginner level class · Artist leading class is Marky Barto, Art by Marky

Instructions:

· Send a $45 check written to WRFFHS, and mail to PO Box 26, Turbotville, PA 17772

· You must include your phone number

· Children 12 or older are welcome, but need to be accompanied by an adult

· RSVP by Oct 10th

 

Annual Gun Raffle Fundraiser

 

Ticket sales at The Little Sportsmen Shop LLC, Northumberland, Ficks Hardware, Watsontown and Kauffman’s Hardware Store, Loganton

Contact info@freelandfarm.org for festival sales locations

 

Check back regularly for exciting America 250 events to be scheduled throughout the year!

 

Founded in 1978, Warrior Run-Fort Freeland Heritage Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history and heritage of the Warrior Run area in central Pennsylvania, Northumberland County (McEwensville, Muncy, Turbotville, Watsontown). We accomplish this through annual events and ongoing activities, including:

 

Warrior Run Church
Owners of the Warrior Run Church, historic artifacts and library, buildings, cemetery and grounds.		 Hower-Slote House
Restoration and management of the
historic Hower-Slote House and Farm.
Display of Artifacts
Collection and preservation of objects
made and used by settlers of the area and a research library.		 Redware Plate
Encouraging the preservation of the crafts
once practiced in the Warrior Run area.

BE PART OF OUR LOCAL RESTORATION PROJECT  $

Link to Donation Page-Hower-Slote Farm Restoration (freelandfarm.org)