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Date: April 28, 2016
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Wilderness Road State Park hosts Raid at Martin's Station
EWING, Va. – More than 450 re-enactors, merchants, artists and artisans bring history to life during the “Raid at Martin's Station” May 13-15 at Wilderness Road State Park.
Activities are scheduled for 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $10 per vehicle Friday and Saturday and $4 per vehicle on Sunday. Friday is a special school day when students from the area will be treated to more than 10 frontier demonstration stations at the fort. Admission for the school day is $1 per student.
Visitors can walk through and shop at an 18th-century market fair, visit a Cherokee Indian camp, listen to colonial music and tour Historic Martin's Station. The event features Saturday afternoon and evening frontier battles between the militia at Martin's Station and Native American re-enactors. Battles start at 1 and 8:30 p.m.
Throughout the three-day event, world-renowned frontier artists, such as Andrew Knez Jr., Dennis Muzzy and Steve White, will sell original works in the visitor center. There will also be seminars on 18th-century topics conducted by Wallace Gusler, Paul Jones, Mark Baker and Eve Otmar. The Powder Horn Gift Shop will also be open, and the 20-minute film “Wilderness Road, Spirit of a Nation” will play in the visitor center theatre.
Saturday at 10 a.m., the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution will conduct a flag-raising ceremony followed by a wreath-laying at the Wilderness Road Monument.
Historic Martin's Station is the re-creation of Capt. Joseph Martin's Fort originally built in 1775. The fort was near present-day Rose Hill and played a key role in the settlement of the American frontier and westward expansion during the Revolutionary War.
Wilderness Road State Park is in Ewing, within two hours of Knoxville, Tennessee, Bristol and Lexington, Kentucky. For more information, contact Wilderness Road at 276-445-3065 or email WildernessRoad@dcr.virginia.gov. Visit the Friends of Wilderness Road website at www.historicmartinsstation.com.
The event is sponsored by the Friends of Wilderness Road State Park.
Virginia State Parks are managed by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.
For more information about Virginia’s 36 award-winning state parks, call 800-933-PARK (7275) or visit www.virginiastateparks.gov.
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