No Fall Rendezvous this year at Pricketts Fort

We apologize for any inconvenience that misinformation may have caused, but Pricketts Fort will NOT be hosting a Fall Rendezvous this year. We encourage people to come out and participate in Fall Festival weekend October 10-11 and the Annual 18th century Christmas Market December 11-13. Feel free to contact us for further information at www.prickettsfort.org.

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Fall Festival & Antiques Fair to return to Pricketts Fort, October 10 & 11

The Fall Festival and Antiques Fair will be returning to Pricketts Fort again this year, October 10 & 11, 2009, from 10 -4:30 on Saturday and 12 – 4:30 on Sunday.
Live music will be provide by Mountain William Strings, Jeff Fedan, Josh Wanstreet, Wha-ke-we-nn? & the Dulcimer Dames.
Daily activities will [...]

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Aerial engagement over Pricketts Fort

Inside the gunshop one morning several days ago, I heard a high-pitched repeated screeeeing which I knew was a hawk, so I ran outside and looked up. From the north, quite high, a bald eagle, unmistakable with white tail and head, was rapidly approaching. I called to Mary Rose in the Meeting House [...]

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Memorial Day Observances at Pricketts Fort to be held on Monday, May 25

Memorial Day observances at Pricketts Fort will feature interpreters at four separate stations arrayed across the Pricketts Fort grounds, representing the following four wars in which men from Pricketts Fort or their descendents, saw service: The French & Indian War; Lord Dunmore’s War; the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
Each interpreter will be [...]

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Jones Imboden Raid Civil War Day

 
In April 1863 Confederate forces invaded Fairmont, Virginia (now West Virginia) in an attempt to gain control of the strategic B&O Railroad and capture Francis Pierpont, Governor of the Re-Organized Virginia.
On April 24th and 25th, Pricketts Fort commemorated this raid with two days of Civil War events and activities.  I am still in the process [...]

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School of the Longhunter II: the native presence

Continuing my leisurely saunter through the encampment, I ventured inside the fort and happened into the meetinghouse, where I chanced upon a scene which might have come straight out of Withers’ Chronicles of Border Warfare: a pioneer woman walking into her cabin to find a Shawnee warrior warming himself at her fire: surely every [...]

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