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August-September events

Updated: Aug 20

Here are the events on the schedule for August and September 2025.


Aug. 7-9, 2025 - Contemporary Longrifle Association Show & Meeting, Central Bank Center, 430 W. Vine St., Lexington, Kentucky 40507. Contact 540-886-6189, cla@longrifle.com, www.longrifle.com, Facebook page. Members-only show. Memberships available. Thursday setup. Open 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Aug. 7-10, 2025 - Seneca Muzzleloaders Fun-de-Vous, Sandusky River Coon Hunters grounds, 7575 TR 131, Tiffin, Ohio 44883. Contact Rob Gerding, 419-341-8657, robbob@hush.com, Facebook page. Primitive dress is welcome, but shorts and a T-shirt is the usual dress for this event. Otherwise, it's a rendezvous with black powder shoots, archery, hawk and knife and other competitions. Saturday evening potluck. Camp fee $25. Setup after 2 p.m. Thursday and all day Friday.
 
Aug. 7-10, 2025 - West Virginia Boys Rendezvous, 3008 W. South Range Road, Columbiana, Ohio 44408. Contact Facebook page. Camp fee $20 per camp. Provide your own water. Trail walks, for rifle, archery and hawk & knife. Camp feed Saturday; provide a side dish.

Aug. 9-10, 2025 - 18th-Century Colonial Trade Fair at the Mill, Wolf Creek Grist Mill Museum, 3175 SR 3 South, Loudonville, Ohio 44842. Contact mark@wolfcreekmill.org, 419-541-0161, www.wolfcreekmill.org. Juried event seeking demonstrators and traders. Public hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.​

Aug. 9-10, 2025 - Napoleonic Days 1799–1815, Old Fort Wayne, 1201 Spy Run Ave., Fort Wayne, Indiana. Contact 260-437-2836. Reenactor, sutler, demonstrator applications at oldfortwayne.org/get-involved/reenactor-registration. Public hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.
 
Aug. 15-17, 2025 - Fort Fest and Fort Jennings 1812, Fort Jennings Park, Fort Jennings, Ohio. Contact Jason Ricker, 419-604-9516, or Amy Ricker, 419-604-9127, amy.ricker@gmail.com, Facebook page. Honors veterans and first responders from 1812 to present. Military reenactments, vehicles and displays. Living history camp, twilight demonstrations, skirmishes and demos.
Two reenactors who attended the 2017 voyageurs event at Lake St. Clair in Michigan
Two reenactor friends who attended the voyageur event at Lake St. Clair, Michigan, in August 2017. Does anybody know their names?

Aug. 15-17, 2025 - Galesburg Heritage Days, Lake Storey Park, Galesburg, Illinois. Contact Dave and Lisa Bernhart, 309-335-7743 or 309-342-6159, thebernharts@yahoo.com or galesburgheritagedays@gmail.com, Facebook page and www.galesburgheritagedays.org. Early setup starts at 8 a.m. Aug. 14. Pre-1840 Early American Colonial/Frontier Rendezvous and Civil War Battle Encampment/ Reenactment at two separate, but close, venues at the park. Event includes almost 1,000 visual storytellers, reenactors, merchants and sutlers. Free public admission. Rendezvous fee $25 per camp and $50 per trader. Civil War camp fee is $10 per person ages 16 and older. 

Aug. 22-24, 2025, and Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2025 - Great Trail Festival, festival grounds, SR 43, Malvern, Ohio. Contact 330-794-9100, www.greattrailfestival.com, Facebook page. Reenactors, musicians, blanket traders and buckskinning families by invitation and inquiry. Cannon firing, tomahawk contest, battle reenactments, French Quarter and participant dinner. Public hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and Memorial Day.
 
Aug. 22-24 - Rendezvous on the Kankakee, Fort Tassinong, 176 W 1000 S, Kouts, Indiana 46347. Contact Bill Ames, billsames.wa@gmail.com, 219-869-9919. Blanket shoot Saturday ($25 prize). Primitive and modern camping (no hookups). Prize for best primitive camp as voted by participants. Potluck Saturday evening.

(New dates) Aug. 23-24, 2025 - Old Timey Days, Williams Park, Gibsonburg, Ohio, Gibsonburg Historical Society. Contact Jason Adams via text, 419-575-7496, or email RogueArtist@gmail.com, Facebook page. Reenactors, food and craft vendors. Public hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

Aug. 23-24, 2025 - The 60 Years' War for Ohio: American Revolution, Fort Meigs, 29100 W. River Road, Perrysburg, Ohio. Contact 419-874-4121, www.fortmeigs.org/events, Facebook page. Juried event: American Revolution. Registration required.

(New event) Aug. 23-24, 2025 - Battle for Billie Creek, 65 S. Billie Creek Road, Rockville, Indiana 47872. Contact Jason Buckreis, jrbuckreis@outlook.com (reenactors) or Michelle, BillieCreekVillage@yahoo.com (food vendors), Facebook page. Mid-18th-century event featuring demonstrations from period civilians, military personnel, traders, crafters and others. Battle demonstration, vendors, crafts, food expected. Public hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission $10 for ages 11 and older, $7 for ages 6-10.

Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2025 - Fort Rowdy Gathering, Covington Community Park, 140 W. Broadway, Covington, Ohio. Contact Kari Hollis, 937-570-8548, khollis311@gmail.com, Facebook page. Rendezvous and community festival along the Stillwater River, connected by a 209-foot-long portable footbridge. Free live entertainment on both sides of the river. Archery, hawk & knife, atlatl, fire starting, Highland games. Donations for fundraiser auction appreciated.

Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2025 - Greene County Fish & Game Labor Day Rendezvous, 1538 Union Road, Xenia, Ohio 45385. Contact Brian Lavery, 937-241-8327, Facebook page. Camp fee $20 per family; $15 per single; $10 for walk-in shooter. No extra fee for traders. Competitions include shoots, archery, hawk & knife, pastry toss.

Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2025 - Fall Rendezvous, Ball & Arrow Primitive Weapons Club Inc., 5190 Days Lane NE, New Philadelphia (Roswell), Ohio 44663. Contact Jamie Maize, 330-663-8190, or Larry Pringle, 330-432-8244, Facebook page. Period dress required. Camp fee $25. Additional shooters $10 each. Walk-ins welcome with $25 per shooter fee. Rifle woods walk, primitive archery woods walk, knife & hawk and kids games. Provide your own drinking water. No pets. 

Aug. 29-31, 2025 - The Fair at New Boston, George Rogers Clark Park, 936 S. Tecumseh, Springfield, Ohio. Contact Pam Cottrell, 937-322-4181, rcottrel@woh.rr.com, 937-882-9216, Facebook page. Sponsored by George Rogers Clark Heritage Association. Invitation-only, juried event. Time period 1790-1812. Friday school day. Entertainment, food, taverns, craftsmen, Woodland Indian village, military encampment, children’s games and puppets, music, street entertainers, shopping. Learn dance steps from 1800. Battle reenactment each day.

Sept. 5-7, 2025 - Pioneer Days, Historic Lyme Village, 5001 SR 4, Bellevue, Ohio. Contact Roger Knight, vrknight@hotmail.com, 419-483-4949, Facebook page. Download registration form at www.lymevillage.org. Set up after noon Thursday or after 2:30 Friday. Student Day Friday. Camp fee $5 per person ages 13 and older if registered by July 1; $10 thereafter. Sutler/vendor fee $35 before July 1, but may be waived if participate in Student Day Friday. After July 1, sutler fee is $50. Saturday meal provided with reservations.

Sept. 5-7, 2025 - Jennings Creek Council Fall Rendezvous, Camp Clay, 9196 Liberty Union Road, Van Wert, Ohio 45891. Contact Sharon Curl, lscurl4645@yahoo.com. Pre-registration appreciated, but not required. Camp fee $25, which covers two adults and children. Additional adults $10 each. Setup after 2 p.m. Thursday. School day Friday. Competitions include rifle, smoothbore, archery, hawk & knife, Seneca run. Cash prizes. Junior aggregate. Camp meal Saturday evening; take along a dessert to share. Wooded and open camp sites. Showers. Flush toilets. Fishing and swimming in the pond. No pets. Open to public 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
 
Sept. 5-7, 2025 - Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial's Historic Weekend, 93 Delaware Ave., Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Contact 419-285-2184, www.nps.gov/pevi/planyourvisit/2015-historic-weekend.htm, or message Ranger Bob on the website. Commemorates the Battle of Lake Erie with ceremony, parade, historic weapons demonstrations, trade demonstrations. Reenactors portray U.S. Army, Navy (Marines), militia, Crown forces, indigenous forces, camp followers and traders, all from the War of 1812. Friday setup. Camp is open and demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday.

Sept. 12-14, 2025 - Long Run Massacre, Red Orchard Park, 704 Kentucky St. Shelbyville, Kentucky 40065. Hosted by The Painted Stone Settlers. Contact Kathy Cummings, 502-228-3746, kathy.cummings@graphicenterprises.net, https://paintedstonesettlers.org/index.html. Juried Revolutionary War event, 1770-1785, telling the story of Squire Boone’s station and an impending Indian attack. Friday school day. Saturday public day 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Scouts visit Saturday morning to see the 20 stations from Friday's school day. 2 p.m. reenactment of the 1781 event that history calls the Long Run Massacre and Floyd’s Defeat. Saturday night feast. Sunday church service.

Sept. 13-21, 2025 - NMLRA Fall National Shoot, National Muzzleloading Rifle Association, Walter Cline Range, Friendship, Indiana. Contact 812-667-5131 or 800-745-1493, www.nmlra.org/2025-nationalmatches. 

(canceled for 2025) A River Through History, Columbia Woods Forest Preserve, Willow Springs, Illinois. Contact Monique Koenigsmark, 708-955-2035, monique@ariverthruhistory.com, www.ariverthruhistory.com.
 
Sept. 19-21, 2025 - Tiffin-Seneca Heritage Festival, lower level of Hedges-Boyer Park, Tiffin, Ohio. Contact www.tiffinfestival.com, Facebook page. Advanced registration required. School day Friday. No competitions. Demonstrators encouraged.

Sept. 19-21, 2025 - Rendezvous on the Reserve, Montpelier Historical Society, Montpelier, Indiana 47359. Contact Bryon Maddox, 765-730-0400, bryon.maddox60@yahoo.com. A fur trade living history encampment on the Blackford County Reservation of Myaamia Chief Francois Godfroy. Mississinewa Confederation Native village, settlers, traders, trappers, voyageurs. Shoots, archery, hawk & knife, women's and kids' games. Advanced registration preferred. School day Friday. Public hours 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.
 
Sept. 19-21, 2025 - Hill’s Fort Rendezvous, American Farm Heritage Museum, Greenville, Illinois. Contact Kan Gaffney, 217-246-3891, kencathy22@hotmail.com, Facebook page. Located at reconstructed 1812 frontier fort off I-70 45 minutes of St Louis. War of 1812, Colonial, fur traders, buckskinners. Demonstrations, fife & drum, blanket shoot, blow shoot, candy cannon. Traders welcome. Food on site. Free admission.

Sept. 20-21, 2025 - Life in Early Ohio, Fort Meigs, 29100 W. River Road, Perrysburg, Ohio. Contact 419-874-4121, www.fortmeigs.org/events, Facebook page. Juried event: Historic skills and trades. Registration required.


Sept. 20-21, 2025 - Trail of Courage, Fulton County Historical Society, 37 E. 375 N, Rochester, Indiana 46975. Contact 574-223-4436, www.fultoncountyhistory.org, Facebook page. History-related programs on the Chippeway Village stage and Hillside Amphitheater stage, muzzleloading shoots, authenticity competitions for camps, booths and participant clothing, demonstrations of traditional crafts and skills, Indian and pioneer dancing, canoe rides. Public hours 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission $10 adults, $5 kids ages 6-11. Proceeds go to operate the museum.
 
Sept. 20-21, 2025 - Siege of Fort Boonesborough, 4375 Boonesborough Road, Richmond, Kentucky 40475. Contact 859-527-3131,
www.fortboonesboroughlivinghistory.org/html/_event_schedule.html, Facebook page. Portrays 18th-century life in Kentucky. Battle reenactments at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. No school day this year.

Sept. 20-21, 2025 - Michigan Antique Arms Collectors Inc., Madison Place Events Center, 876 Horace Brown Drive, Madison Heights, Michigan 48071. Contact Greg Zemsta, 248-556-6590, mauserman98@hotmail.com, www.michiganantiquearms.com. Guns and accoutrements, Native artifacts, knives, relics and similar items. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Members admitted at 8 a.m. Admission fee $8.

Sept. 26-28, 2025 - Luckey Fall Festival Rendezvous, between Krotzer Avenue (SR 582) and Gilbert Road on Adams Street, Luckey, Ohio. Contact Sue Brinker, thunderlodge@yahoo.com. Camp in conjunction with Luckey Fall Festival, https://luckeyfallfestival.com.

Sept. 26-Oct. 4 - 2025 - NRLHF Eastern Primitive Rendezvous, grounds of the Independent Mountain Men of PA, 420 Squaw Valley Road, Parker, Pennsylvania 16049. Contact George Fischer, 301-582-2904, 240-707-7544, www.nrlhf.org, or message Facebook page. Pre-registration fees are $60 per adult for NMLRA members; $70 for non-members. Early setup Wednesday and Thursday. Children ages 17 and younger are free. No pets.
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