On May 31st, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort who served in the following wars: the French & Indian War, Pontiac’s Uprising, Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. The observances also memorialized the descendents of these men who served in the Civil War. At the time [...]
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War dead honored at Pricketts Fort
Posted in BJ Omanson, Chief Logan, Civil War, French & Indian War, Isaiah Prickett, James Chew, John Champe, John Fimple, Lee Miller, Lord Dunmore's War, Michael Ray, Pontiac's Uprising, Tom Carson, Zackquill Morgan on June 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Scenes from the Christmas Market
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Christmas Market, Judy Wilson, Kimberly Miller, Michael Ray, Okey Simmons, Queen Aliquippa, Tom Carson, Wild Willy Frankfort, winter on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the blustery winter weather, the annual Pricketts Fort Christmas Market was very well attended this year. At least, the indoor market was well attended. On that first day in particular, when the raw wind whipping across the open field between the Visitor’s Center and the Fort put one in mind of the Siberian steppes, [...]
Squire Miller killed in Shawnee attack; Mistress Rebecca taken captive
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, beans, Fall Festival, Shawnee, Tom Carson on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It all begins peacefully enough on a mild October morning, with Squire Miller and Mistress Rebecca picking beans in the field outside the fort. Little do they suspect that the fearsome Shawnee Two Hawks and his band are skulking up through the forest only yards away! At just the right moment, when his intended victims have their backs [...]
On the 4th of July, a recruiting party at Pricketts Fort
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, American Revolution, Capt Springer, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, Fourth of July, recruitment, Tom Carson on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recruiting new militiamen for an expedition against the Shawnee in the Ohio Territory, on the Cuyahoga River, took place on July 4th and 5th at Pricketts Fort, with indifferent success reported. Although a fair number of interested men initially stepped forward to join the ranks, once it was explained to them that, at the end [...]
Ancestral Wars
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Chief Logan, civilian militia, Jacob Prickett, Kimberly Miller, Lee Miller, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Okey Simmons, Prickett family, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Zackquill Morgan on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On May 25th, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort who served in the following wars: the French & Indian War, Pontiac’s Uprising, Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. The ceremony also memorialized the descendents of these men who served in the Civil War. At the time [...]
Scenes from the Christmas Market
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, cat, Christmas Market, flintlock rifles, Greg Bray, Judy Wilson, Mary Rose Mustachio, Michael Ray, powderhorn, Tom Carson, Wild Willy Frankfort, wool on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Faithful friend of the Fort, Tom Carson, maintained a keen-eyed vigil through much of the Market, conversing with visitors and directing them from one building to another. He was assisted at times by his compadre Queen Aliquippa, the ever-present cat-of-the-fort. Inside the fort, the two main buildings, the Trading Post and the Meeting House, were [...]
Strolling through the Fall Festival at Pricketts Fort
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, applebutter, autumn, bear fat, blacksmithing, civilian militia, Cordelia Spencer, domestic life, Fall Festival, frontier forts, frontier women, Greg Bray, harvest, Judy Wilson, Lee Miller, living history, Okey Simmons, powderhorn, re-enacting, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Virginia frontier, wigwam on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fort attacked by Shawnee war party
Posted in Fall Festival, flintlock muskets, frontier farming, frontier forts, musket balls, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Virginia frontier on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I participated in my first re-enactment this past weekend during the Fall Festival here at the fort. I was working outside the stockade, gleaning the field for the last few ears of corn and gourds. Some distance away, a young woman from the fort was collecting buckwheat kernels into a basket. It was hot, and [...]
miserable, wet & cold
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, domestic life, flintlock muskets, frontier farming, frontier forts, frontier kitchen, frontier women, Judy Wilson, kitten, Lee Miller, living history, Michael Ray, Monongahela River, Shawnee, sheep, Tom Carson on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A cold wet miserable Saturday morning — just the sort of morning I especially enjoy at the fort, particularly after a long hectic week of school tours and crowds of children. Saturday means no field trips and a cold miserable rain means few visitors to speak of, and a chance to catch up on essential tasks. The passage [...]
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