{"id":6365,"global_id":"www.crazycrow.com\/site?id=6365","global_id_lineage":["www.crazycrow.com\/site?id=6365"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2016-07-17 10:42:14","date_utc":"2016-07-17 10:42:14","modified":"2017-02-16 14:56:56","modified_utc":"2017-02-16 14:56:56","url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/event\/fulton-county-museum-living-history-faire\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/6365","title":"Fulton County Museum Living History Faire","description":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>Join us for our annual Fulton County Museum Living History Faire on March 12-13, 2016 at the Fulton County Museum in Rochester, IN. Vendors from all over the US will show and sell historical items pre-1890. Vendor space is limited and will be assigned on a first come, first served basis upon receipt of application and fees. Early registration is recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-1890 event devoted to Living History and Accoutrements. Trade goods similar to what is sold at Trail of Courage &#8211; some of the same vendors. Leather, beads, jewelry, dreamcatchers, moccasins, furs, blacksmith items, pottery, historic clothing, candle lanterns, etc. Afternoon seminars start at 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 9 am &#8211; 5 pm<br \/>\nSunday 9 am &#8211; 3 pm<\/p>\n<p>Admission $1<\/p>\n<p>Food available both days.<\/p>\n<p>Location<br \/>\nFulton County Museum Living History Faire<br \/>\nUS 37 E 375 N<br \/>\nRochester, IN 46975<br \/>\n574-223-4436<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","excerpt":"","slug":"fulton-county-museum-living-history-faire","image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fulton-County-Museum-Living-History-Faire-01-850x567.jpg","id":6366,"extension":"jpg","width":850,"height":567,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 8.8% 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09:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"03","day":"12","hour":"09","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2016-03-13 15:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"03","day":"13","hour":"15","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2016-03-12 09:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"03","day":"12","hour":"09","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2016-03-13 15:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"03","day":"13","hour":"15","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"UTC+0","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"http:\/\/fchswebmaster.wix.com\/fultoncountyhistory#!living-history-faire\/m3vb5","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"z - Discontinued by 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class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The Fulton County Museum, round barn museum and living history village are very easy to find. Located on US 31 only four miles north of Rochester, Indiana. Fulton County Museum is open Monday &#8211; Saturday from 9a.m. to 5 p.m., closed holidays. Visit our Fulton County Museum and Round Barn Museum, then stroll over to our living history village, called Loyal, which depicts the 1900-1925 time period. Come and see us during the Trail of Courage Living History Festival in September which depicts pre-1840 America, visit our Round Barn and our Fulton County Historical Power Show, come to the Redbud Trail Rendezvous portraying the Midwest Frontier in April.[su_accordion][su_spoiler title=&#8221;Read More&#8221;]\nExperience frontier and pioneer life before 1840! Participate as a re-enactor, trader, etc.! FCHS was founded to enable interactive and historical reenactments in our Rendezvous, museums, and our living history village called Loyal. All these events make history come alive while making it interesting, fun, and most importantly, relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Famous for our Trail of Courage Living History Festival, Redbud Trail Rendezvous and Round Barn Museum, we are surrounded by historic round barns and located in the birthplace of the first Tarzan, Elmo Lincoln and other famous people. Offering around-the-clock accessibility to information about special events, project updates, volunteer opportunities, and event registrations, we invite you to visit often. Photographs, related news articles, as well as a calendar are included to enable you to be an active participant. Join us as we travel through the pages of history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Living History Village 1900-1925<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fulton County&#8217;s Living History Village is called Loyal, Indiana, for a little village that used to exist a few miles west of the museum. Originally named Germany, Indiana, the people changed the name to Loyal in 1918 when the U.S. was at war with Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Loyal, Indiana, now depicts 1900-1925. This period of our history is known as the GOLDEN AGE OF AGRICULTURE because farmers made a profit and they could afford labor-saving equipment like hay elevators and riding cultivators and round barns! More round barns were built in Indiana than any other state. Round barns were an experimental structure touted by the Agricultural colleges as the most economical and best barn ever designed. It saved the farmer labor by having the animals all face the center for feeding.<\/p>\n<p>The period is also called the GOLDEN AGE OF INDIANA LITERATURE because of so many great writers, such as James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Booth Tarkington, Gene Stratton Porter, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The first quarter of the 20th century was a time of unprecedented change: from horse power to cars and aeroplanes, from isolation to World War I&#8217;s global involvement. Cars and tractors were replacing horses &#8212; blacksmiths were converting their shops into garages. The industrial revolution had reached the home and the farm, and everything was changing, including clothing styles, cooking utensils, labor-saving gadgets such as vacuum cleaners and apple peelers.[\/su_spoiler][\/su_accordion]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><a class=\"blue\" href=\"\/site\/event\/redbud-trail-rendezvous\/\">View Rosebud Trail Rendezvous Details<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><a class=\"blue\" href=\"\/site\/event\/trail-of-courage-living-history-festival\/\">View Trail of Courage Living History Festival Details<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><div 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Located on US 31 only four miles north of Rochester, Indiana. Fulton County Museum is open Monday - Saturday from 9a.m. to 5 p.m., closed holidays. Visit our Fulton County Museum and Round Barn Museum, then stroll over to &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/venue\/fulton-county-museum\/&quot;&gt; [read more]&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\\n","image":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trail-of-Courage-Living-History-Festival-05-850x567.jpg","url":"","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"37 E 375 N","addressLocality":"Rochester","addressRegion":"IN","postalCode":"46975","addressCountry":"United States"},"telephone":"574-223-4436","sameAs":"http:\/\/fchswebmaster.wix.com\/fultoncountyhistory"},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"www.crazycrow.com\/site?id=6357","global_id_lineage":["www.crazycrow.com\/site?id=6357"]},"organizer":[{"id":6358,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2016-07-17 09:19:55","date_utc":"2016-07-17 09:19:55","modified":"2018-02-04 21:03:50","modified_utc":"2018-02-04 21:03:50","url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/organizer\/fulton-county-historical-society\/","organizer":"Fulton County Historical Society","description":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Fulton County Historical Society was founded in 1963 with its first location at the old Rochester Depot. Incorporating in 1972 as non-profit, FCHS started its first festival, the Trail of Courage in 1976 which led to Rendezvous: Trail of Courage Living History Festival, Fulton County Historical Power Show and Redbud Trail purchased acreage along U.S. 31, which is its present location.<\/p>\n<p>Through the years, donations to the Fulton County Historical Society of a round barn, print shop, chicken house, 1832 Polke house\/stagecoach inn, windmill, the relocation of the Rochester depot and log cabin, and building projects such as a foot bridge and blacksmith shop have formed the nucleus of a Living History Village called Loyal, Indiana, which portrays the period of 1900-1925. Additions to the village are planned in the future.[su_accordion][su_spoiler title=&#8221;Read More&#8221;]\nThree branch groups of the Fulton County Historical Society meet several times a year: the Genealogy Section, the Potawatomi Trail of Death Association (see www.potawatomi-tda.org), and Fulton County Historical Power Association. FCHS seeks to preserve history through publications, displays, special events, drama, music, and monthly meetings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fulton County Historical Society Honors Original Inhabitants<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1976 as a Bicentennial project, members of the Fulton County Historical Society conceived of a special event to honor the Potawatomi Indians who had been the original inhabitants of northern Indiana but had been forcibly removed to Kansas in 1838, an event that became known as the Trail of Death. They called that first event the Trail of Death Rendezvous. Allen Willard, son of Bill and Shirley Willard, earned his Eagle award by leading his local Boy Scout troop to erect a historical marker at the second night\u2019s camp site on that removal, where the first death occurred. In 1977 the name of the event was changed to Trail of Courage in order to focus on life before the removal when this was still Potawatomi territory. Allen joined the Order of the Arrow and performed the buffalo dance and other Indian dances at the Trail of Courage for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>The first year, 1976, the event was held in a soybean field owned by Clyde and Opal Neff, because the field was located on the Trail of Death route and was close to the camp site of the second night on the journey west, where the first death occurred. It was on Indiana 25 about 6 miles south of Rochester. The next year the event was moved to the Tippecanoe River to a pine woods owned by Bob Kern, which was located on Olson Road between Old 31 and New US 31, about 2 miles north of Rochester. The Trail of Courage was held in the pine woods for 9 years, and grew to be a major festival. Thanks to the generosity of Bob Kern, who never charged rent, FCHS was able to save money to purchase land for a permanent home for the Trail of Courage and a site for a museum.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Trail of Courage is a big festival attracting 12,000 to 18,000 annually. It has historic camps set up by re-enactors in these areas: French &amp; Indian War, Voyageurs canoe camps, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Western Fur Trade, Plains Indian teepees, and Woodland Indian wigwams. There is also a re-creation of Chippeway, Indiana, the first white settlement in Fulton County, of which William Polke was the postmaster in 1832. Over 35 wooden booths house demonstrations and vendors of crafts, foods, plus educational displays. Several log cabins have been constructed. Canoe rides are offered on the Tippecanoe River. All foods are cooked over wood fires: buffalo burgers, ham &amp; beans, fish and chips, vegetable soup, venison stew, barbecue, corn on the cob, apple sausage, turkey legs, and popcorn. For the sweet tooth there are apple dumplings, fudge, cookies, and ice cream. Even the drinks are historic: cider, coffee, sassafras tea, iced tea, homemade root beer, etc. No coke allowed! Everything is pre-1840 to portray frontier Indiana. There are two stages with music and dance from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Indian dances are held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Indian dance arena, outlined by teepees. Crafts include spinning wheel, basketry, flintknapping, fingerweaving of Indian sashes, weaving of rugs, pewter casting, blacksmithing, tin-smithing, rope making, bow making, and much more. 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