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EVENT SCHEDULE 2019 - 2020 __________________________________

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Living History, Civil War                                           November 22*, 23, 24, 2019

School Day Field Trips Only November 22, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Must Pre-register and pre-pay (unless other arrangements have been made.)

Encampments & Re-enactments November 23 and 24, 2019 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Live entertainment throughout the day, great food, traditional craft demonstrations, museum village open with docents in period attire. Bring your lawn chairs, grab your spot for the reenactment, lunch from the Cracker Fixin's Concession Stand, enjoy music from the 7 lbs of Bacon Mess Band prior to the battle.

Saturday 10:30 a.m. - Ladies Tea in the Mabel Jordan Barn (Time Period Dress Required) Saturday the museum is making cane syrup. Make sure you visit the cane mill!

11:30 a.m. - Time Period Fashion Show on the Porch of the Oversteet Home

Sunday 10:00 a.m - Church Service in the Enterprise Methodist Church at the museum. Blacksmith demonstrations most of the day.

Historical backdrop for battle reenactment (with theatrical flair 😉)

All kinds of period demonstrations, desalination, lead bullet melting, maritime demonstrations.

Historical displays. Keith Kohl is bringing his Flags of Florida display

The museum is unveiling a Hillsborough River Raid/Ballast Point display

The Pioneer Florida Museum still currently has the lifeboat davit from the Scottish Chief (https://www.theledger.com/news/20120413/scottish-chief-the-pride-of-tampa-bay)

Authors, selling and signing History Related Books

Live entertainment and other demonstrations going on all day. All museum buildings open.

Raffle Drawing for Civil War Related Items proceeds to benefit the Pioneer Florida Museum.

You don't want to miss this.

Raid on the Salt Works 2:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday

It’s November 1864, the anaconda grip of the US Military is choking the life out of the Confederacy. Lee is bottled up in Richmond and Petersburg along with the Florida Brigade, inlcuding remnants of the 2nd, 5th and 8th Florida. Atlanta fell back in July and Sherman is now marching unchecked through Georgia, burning everything in his army’s path. The tattered remnants of the Confederacy’s Army of Tennessee, including the dwindling ranks of the 4th, 6th and 7th Florida, are on one final and fateful march north, about to be sacrificed at the breastworks outside Franklin and Nashville.

On the Gulf Coast of Florida Union raids are becoming more frequent and ferocious. Ever since the fall of Vicksburg in July of 1863, Confederate armies are now cut off from supply routes across the Mississippi. They are increasingly more dependent on the goods Florida produces like cattle, turpentine, citrus and salt. Salt was the lifeblood of any mid-19th Century army. It was one of the only ways to preserve food and was also used in curing leather. In New Orleans, at the beginning of the war, a 200-pound sack of salt cost 50 cents. By 1862, it was up to $25. A Confederate private made $11 per month. A salt works operation near Saint Joseph’s Bay, near present-day Panama City was capable of producing 150 bushels of salt per day but that operation was discovered and destroyed in 1862.

The Pioneer Florida Museum & Village’s 2019 Living History and battle reenactment follows the opening moments of various operations by the US Navy, Marines and infantry companies from many of the newly-formed United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments against salt works operations between Cedar Key and Tampa Bay.

The way most raids would transpire was Union troops would show up, chase off the salt workers and perhaps some militia or Home Guards, then proceed to wreck the operation. In the museum’s 2019 scenario, lead elements from some the aforementioned units clash with salt workers and a handful of armed guards, chasing them through a nearby rail station, a patch of corn stalks and off the field. As the Union troops are wrecking the salt works operation, a hastily assembled group of Confederate units that might have included dismounted elements of the 2nd and 5th Florida Cavalry as well as members of the 1st Florida Reserve, Home Guards and state militia, rallies to the scene. The Confederates drive off the Union vanguard and re-take the salt works but no sooner are they repairing the salt works operation than Union artillery opens up. Full companies step into line and a pitched battle ensues as each side rushes any available units to the area.

In our 2019 presentation Raid on the Salt Works, the confrontation becomes more about pride than about salt. Weary of hit-and-run tactics, the Union soldiers want to stand toe-to-toe with their Confederate counterparts and take their measure. With the walls of their new nation collapsing around them, the desperate Confederates fight ever more fanatically. Who will prevail in this test of wills?

Welcome Re-enactors and Sutlers, to register or for more information, please contact Everette Jones, 813-714-5430 or email.

Primitive camping only, no pets in the museum. Additional accomodations may be available at Town & Country RV Resort about 2 miles away from the museum. Please call for availability 352-567-7707

Address:18005 US-301, Dade City, FL 33523

Sulters Application  

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Country Christmas and Vintage Market                            December 7, 2019

December 7, 2019, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

See the museum buildings decorated for Christmas by the talented Dade City Garden Club! FREE Photos w/Santa from 1 - 3 p.m., unique and amazing vintage vendors for that perfect Christmas gift, FREE Christmas cookies and punch (while supplies last), food trucks/vendors, live entertainment, silent auction baskets, and more.

Bring a stocking stuffer or gift to donate for a senior citizen in need and your admission is $5. Items will be donated to the elderly in the local Cares program.

CARES (Community Aging and Retirement Services, Inc.) is a charitable, not for profit 501(c) (3) corporation that provides quality and caring services to meet the needs of older persons and their families in Pasco County. CARES promotes quality of life and independence for adults through health, social, and supportive services.

Now accepting vendors applications, click below:

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If you have questions, please call or text Brenda Minton, event coordinator, 352-206-8889 (daytime hours, please) or curator@pioneerfloridamuseum.org

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Raising Cane, A Sweet & Spicy Event                                        January 11, 2020

SUGAR CANE SYRUP FESTIVAL - Sugar Cane Syrup Making & a Southern Syrup Makers Association Sugar Cane Competition/Tasting/Judging, and Cane Syrup will be made on site.

An INTERNATIONAL CHILI SOCIETY COOK OFF (professionals)
A "People's Choice" Chili Competition, local competitors welcome,
Live music, Pancake breakfast w/cane syrup (other syrups as well) $3
Chili tasting, great vendors, other wonderful food, all museum buildings open, petting zoo and more.... People's Choice Tasting Cups up to 10 samples for $5. Get there in time for Kiwanis pancakes and stay all day! ACCEPTING VENDORS and CHILI COMPETITORS
If you have questions, please call or text Brenda Minton 352-206-8889 (daytime hours, please) or curator@pioneerfloridamuseum.org

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Farm Fest & Quilt Show                                                             February 1, 2020

Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 
Quilt Exhibition, Quilt Appraiser, awesome vendors, great food, live entertainment, an amazing Quilt Show in the Mabel Jordan Barn. Bring your lawn chairs, grab a great lunch from the concession stand and get your spot for the horse pull, starts at noon! All museum buildings open, docents in period dress, traditional craft demonstrations and more.

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Living History, Civil War                    February 28*, 29 and March 1, 2020

School Day Field Trips Only Feb. 28, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Must Pre-register and pre-pay (unless other arrangements have been made.)

Re-enactments February 29 and March 1, 2020, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Jelly Bean Fling                                                                                    April 4, 2020

Please join us for a wonderful Spring Festival at the Pioneer Florida Museum & Village in Dade City! Now accepting vendors applications, click below:

VENDOR APPLICATIONS

If you have questions, please call or text Brenda Minton, event coordinator, 352-206-8889 (daytime hours, please) or curator@pioneerfloridamuseum.org

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Scarecrow Festival                                                                           October 10, 2020  Scarecrow Festival 2019 Video

 

 

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MEETINGS

2019 Pasco County Historical Society Meetings

Every other month, starting in January, 6:00 p.m., usually the 3rd Friday. At the Pioneer Florida Museum,. Different speakers and presentations each meeting. Guests are welcome. A carry-in dinner precedes the program, so bring a dish to share as well as cutlery for your personal use, plate(s), (disposable is fine) and your beverage of choice. Usually held in the Mabel Jordan Barn, enter through Gate 4 (past the main entrance).

For more information, please contact: Glen Thompson,(352) 567-7449 or E-Mail: bookbollard @ iCloud.com . Historical society meetings are FREE and open to the public.

LOCATION: The museum is located 1.3 miles north of downtown Dade City, at the corner of US 301 and Pioneer Museum Road, turn east onto Pioneer Museum Road and cross the railroad tracks. 

NOVEMBER ONLY

Saturday, November 16, 2019, 12:00 P.M. - Noon

at Melton’s Machinery Museum at 34226 Harris Hill Road, Dade City, Florida, 33523.

The museum is a collection of antique agricultural machinery from the turn of the 20^th century. Each piece is restored to working order. The speaker for the meeting will be Steve Melton. He will lead a tour of the museum adding his own interesting facts and personal stories.

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION: Start time for meeting is 12:00 P.M. - Noon

Guests are welcome. A carry-in dinner precedes the program, so bring a dish to share as well as cutlery for your personal use, plate(s), (disposable is fine) and your beverage of choice. 

LOCATION: 34226 Harris Hill Road, Dade City, FL 33523

Directions to site - Point of Beginning – Pasco County Historic Courthouse - U.S. Highway 301 & State Road 52 in the middle of downtown Dade City.

West on Meridian Avenue (State Road 52) past traffic light at 14^th Street to Traffic light at 21^st Street – turn north (right)

Continue north over the hill past Withlacoochee REA to traffic light at Blanton Road and Lock Street.

North (left) onto Blanton Road, County Road 41 – continue north past Pasco Hernando State College.

Northeast (right) on to County Road 575 – Trilby Road.

Continue north past two sweeping curves, past Pasco Honey to Harris Hill Road.

West (turn left) on to Harris Hill Road – CR 575 Trilby Road is a sweeping curve to the east (right) at this intersection.

Continue west on Harris Hill Road about one mile to address on south (left) side, 34226 Harris Hill Road.

Turn south (left) continue south on long driveway to destination.

For additional information, contact Glen M. Thompson, Secretary at bookbollard@icloud.com or telephone (352) 567-7449