March-April events

Here is my up-to-date list of March-April events. If you're event isn't listed – or you're aware of an event that isn't listed – please email information to Vicki@ReenactorChronicles.com. If you aren't in charge of the event, please include the name and contact information of the person in charge for verification. Thanks!

Please note: These events are mainly in Ohio and neighboring states. I welcome the addition of events from other states as well.

March 1-2, 2025 - Old Town Trade Fair, Assembly Hall, Greene County Fairgrounds, 120 Fairground Road, Xenia, Ohio. Contact Tim and Sharon Milligan, stitchersm@aol.com, 937-857-9745 or Facebook page. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Admission $4 per person; children 11 and younger free. Food available on site. Reenactors, dealers, collectors, educators, craftsmen and history buffs welcome. Wares must 1700-1890 originals or reproductions.

(Rescheduled from January) March 1-2, 2025 - Thunder Creek Long Rifles Wintervous, Bear Wallow Road near Martinsville, Indiana. Contact thundercreek1972@gmail.com, Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/thundercreeklongrifles. Wintervous takes place in a cabin. Shoot Sunday. Participants should provide their own water, food and beverages. Pre-1840 attire is required, but modern footwear is acceptable for weather conditions.

March 15-16, 2025 - Kalamazoo Living History Show, Kalamazoo County Expo Center, 2900 Lake St., Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sponsored by Yankee Doodle Muzzle Loaders Inc. Contact Leslie Martin Conwell, 765-563-6792, kalamazoolivinghistoryshow@gmail.com, www.KalamazooShow.com. Vendors are invited to email kalamazoolivinghistoryshow@gmail.com for an application. The largest juried show in the Midwest devoted to pre-1890 original or reproduction living history supplies, accoutrements and related crafts. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission $9 one day or $13 for weekend pass.

April 5-6, 2025 - Fort de Chartres Colonial Market Faire, Les Amis du Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois 62277. Contact Jason Duensing, lesamisdufortdechartres@gmail.com, www.fortdechartres.us. Juried event: 1750-1790. Pre-registration and jury applications required. For application, visit www.fortdechartres.us/2024-fdc-colonial-faire. Historic interpreters, shooting matches, period games, craftspeople, merchants. Public hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday.

April 10-13, 2025 - School of the Longhunter, Prickett's Fort, 88 State Park Road, Fairmont, West Virginia, 26554. Contact 304-363-3030 or register at www.prickettsfort.org/register.html. Space is limited and registration is required. Fee is $40 for members/$45 for non-members. Intense weekend of instruction, exploring the role of early frontiersmen on the American frontier. Speakers focus on frontier skills of the longhunter.

April 19-20, 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.

April 23-27, 2025 - Amarugia Spring Rendezvous, London Mills, Illinois 61544. Contact Larry Schatz, 309-370-1174, larryws@frontiernet.net, Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/172138582973120. Pre-1830 event on private property. Period dress Friday-Sunday. Bow shoot, hawk & knife.

April 25-26, 2025 - Grassy Run Heritage Rendezvous, Grassy Run Historical Arts Committee, Cook Log Cabin Heritage Center, 6707 Goshen Road, Goshen, Ohio 45122. 1760-1840 event. Contact booshway 513-520-2882, grassyrun@gmail.com, Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/GRHAC. Registration address is Grassy Run, P.O. Box 562, Williamsburg, Ohio 45176. Friday school day. Saturday public day. Blacksmiths, ropemakers, woodworkers, music, sutlers. Hands-on activities for children in the Lock, Stock and Barrel educational area.

April 25-27, 2025 - Spring Thaw Rendezvous, Ball & Arrow Primitive Weapons Club, 5190 Days Lane, New Philadelphia, Ohio. Contact Duane Winkler, 330-343-4880 or winky4@roadrunner.com, www.facebook.com/bnaprimitiveweaponsclub. Camp fee $25, which includes first trip through the woodswalk, hawk & knife and archery trail for one shooter. Re-entry is available. Additional shooters in each camp are $15 each for adults and $10 for ages 12-15. The fee for walk-in shooters is $15. Primitive dress is required. New this year will be an archers “smoker” round, which has an additional entry fee and no re-entry. Public day is 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Provide your own drinking water.

April 25-27, 2025 - Stump Bluff Militia Spring Rendezvous, 1124 Reece Hurt Road, Edmondton, Kentucky 42129. Contact Ronnie Gentry, 270-670-6104, Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/stumpbluffmilitia. 1790-1840 event. Early setup April 23-24. Camp fee $15 per person; free for ages 17 and younger. Shoot fee $15, plus $25 blanket prize. Smoothbore, rifle, hawk & knife. Saturday evening potluck; meat provided. Open to public until 7 p.m. No admission fee. Pets must be on leash.

April 25-27, 2025 - Phil Cravener Memorial Spring Campout, Old Westmoreland Rifles, 188 McCullough Road, Derry, Pennsylvania 15671. Contact Darryl Myers, 724-522-1729; John Kaminsky, 724-887-7265; or Duane King, 724-850-7305, www.oldwestmorelandrifles.com/schedules.html. Rifle and pistol shooting, archery, hawk & knife poker, fire starting, camp games. Modern and primitive camping. Take your own water. No trader fee. 

April 26-27, 2025 - Ashville Ohio Reenactment Timeline/Grove of Heroes, 165 Walnut St., Ashville, Ohio 43103. Contact Roger Bechtel, 614-214-0827, vikingfestival@gmail.com, www.facebook.com/AshvilleVikingFestival. Takes place in conjunction with the Ashville Viking Festival and includes all eras. In the Grove of Heroes visitors can learn how weapons developed and what maneuvers carry forward to today’s soldiers. Also, information on foods, medicine, clothing development and recreation. Encampment is adjacent to the Saxon Market shopping, food and entertainment.

April 26-27, 2025 - Buck Creek Muzzleloaders Spring Rendezvous, Linton, Indiana. Contact Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064856611458 .

April 26-27, 2025 - Bridgeton Rendezvous, Downtown Bridgeton, Indiana 47836. Sponsored by Bridgeton Covered Bridge Association. Contact bton1878hse@aol.com, 765-548-2093 for camping information, bridgetonindiana.com, Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/events/603037072232679/603037082232678. Early setup Wednesday or Thursday. Reenactment 1750-1840 with period camps, clothing, cooking, trading, black powder rifle shoots, primitive bow shoot, knife and hawk, woods walk, skillet throw. No camp fee.

April 26-27, 2025 - Spring Rendezvous, Patoka Valley Long Rifles, 1579 E. Logtown Road, Winslow, Indiana 47598. Contact pvlr.info@gmail.com, Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/PatokaValleyLongRifles.

April 26-27, 2025 - Redbud Trail Rendezvous, Fulton County Historical Society, 37 E. 375 N, Rochester, Indiana 46975. Contact 574-223-4436, www.fultoncountyhistory.org/redbud-trail-rendezvous, Facebook page, www.facebook.com/red.bud.trail.rendezvous.20. Blanket traders and merchants, craft demonstrations. Also Civil War camp. Public hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission $3 for ages 12 and older. Proceeds go to operate the museum. No pets.

(New location) April 29-May 4, 2025 - Lancaster County Longrifles Rendezvous And Black Powder Shoot,    Northern Lancaster County Game & Fish Protective Association, 180 Forest Road, Denver, Pennsylvania 17517. Contact Hudson Hughes II, 717-343-0548, pabackwoodsman@yahoo.com, or Mallory Bell, 717-566-9983, mallorybell16@gmail.com, www.lancastercountylongrifles.com, Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/lancastercountylongrifles?ref=embed_page.

National/Regional Events:

March 7-16, 2025 - Southwestern Regional Rendezvous, Dead Horse Creek, Aquilla, Texas 76622. Contact Chris Coffey, 817-807-0829, or Teresa Rawle, 940-210-2012. Facebook page,  www.facebook.com/southwesternrendezvous. Camp fees if postmarked by Feb. 7 are $30 ages 13 and older, $5 ages 12 and younger, $25 for mug, $15 per medallion, $75 for trader and $50 for blanket trader. Trader fees include one adult. Add $10 to adult and trader fees after that date. Early setup March 5-6. Long term and short term camp, modern camp. Public days March 8-9 and 15. Competitions include shoots, archery, hawk & knife, cooking contest, Highland games, kids' games, seminars, camp feast, drinkable pie and shrub contests.

March 27-30, 2025 - Old Virginia Primitive Rendezvous, Surry, Virginia. Contact Steve Sneed, ssneed1840@gmail.com, or Julie Garrett, ovprscribe@gmail.com, Facebook page, www.facebook.com/groups/116598488453502. Visit www.ovpr2.org for info and registration form. Camp fee for adults ages 18 and older. Early setup starts the weekend before the event with additional fee of $10 per person. Competitions include woods walk, ladies match, juniors match, pistol match, archery, scribe's match, hawk & knife, smoothbore. Social events include court, ladies social, children’s games, potluck dinner, and Friday/Saturday evenings at the Spider Web Inn.

April 10-17, 2025 - NRLHF Southeastern Primitive Rendezvous, 561 AL-165, Fort Mitchell, Alabama 36856. Contact Jim Turley, 808-377-0535, hjamesturley@gmail.com, www.nrlhf.org, Facebook page, www.facebook.com/groups/450477138929462. Early setup Wednesday and Thursday. Pre-registration fees are $60 per adult for NMLRA members; $70 for non-members. Children ages 17 and younger are free. No pets.

April 29-May 4, 2025 - Bloody Lake Rendezvous, Black Hawk Memorial Park, Woodford, Wisconsin. Contact https://www.facebook.com/events/432232396562561/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D Facebook page. Yellowstone Flint and Cap Club, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064196974297. Encampment open for unloading 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. Camp is closed to vehicles 8 p.m. Friday-1 p.m. Sunday.