Fairfax History Day 2022
Saturday, April 23, 2022 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Wander the landscape to meet a tavern keeper, a laundress, suffragists, a blacksmith, and a “Yankee School Marm,” and an
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DC Emancipation Day 2022
Saturday, April 16, 2022 from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Emancipation Day marks April 16th 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. The Act
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Veterans’ Day Wreath Laying Ceremony
Join Rockville’s Mayor and Council at this annual ceremony in honor of the men and women who served in the nation’s armed forces.
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Remembrance Day Parade
An annual event held in conjunction with the Gettysburg Address anniversary. A parade of Civil War living history groups begins at 1:00pm. Join us in honoring the soldiers and civilians
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200th Anniversary of Kennedy Farm/John Brown
The 200th Anniversary of Kennedy Farm/John Brown and the 155th anniversary of the final parade of the 1st USCT. On July 3, 1859, infamous abolitionist John Brown, sons, Owen and
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Juneteenth Commemoration at Roosevelt Island
Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the final abolition of slavery. This year it will be commemorated on June 13th at Theodore Roosevelt Island
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Dr. Mudd House Monthly Talk: “Booth, Surratt, and Black Folks”
Join Mr. Bernie Siler for his presentation which describes the integral involvement of freed African Americans in the tragic events of the Spring of 1865 surrounding the death of President
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Appomattox Living History
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia
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Edenton, NC, Monument Unveiling
Monument unveiling – remembrance of two Edenton-born black Civil War soldiers. More details to come.
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Civil War Encampment at Fort C.F. Smith Park
You are invited to join the staff of Fort C.F. Smith Park for a day of living history with the Union army. From 1861 to 1865, the Union army occupied
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