I am a huge history buff, and one of my very favorite periods is the Revolutionary War.  As New Englanders, I think too many of us forget the rich historical events that appear in history books around the world played out on the very grounds we walk on each day.

Tin Smith
Fairhaven's Fort Phoenix To Hold Revolutionary War Encampment
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Picture the Fort Phoenix that we know and love.  Those same beaches were stormed by over 4,000 British troops back in September of 1778.  They sailed 36 ships on the Acushnet River to raid New Bedford, Acushnet, and Fairhaven...burning homes and business to the ground.   Fort Phoenix was destroyed by British troops.  It took the waterfront years to recover from the devastation.

A rare treat will happen Saturday night, September 26th.  The five Fort Phoenix cannons will be fired at sundown as part of a two day encampment.  A two day Colonial Era encampment will be set up at Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven.    Members of the Fairhaven Village Militia and the Fairhaven Office of Tourism will live in an authentic period camp the same way it was done more than 230 years ago. Men, women and children dressed in period clothing will reenact life in 1778 and talk about the history of our Fort Phoenix.  They will demonstrate campfire cooking, fire starting with flint and steel, musket ball casting, military drilling, loading and firing flintlock muskets and rifles, 18th-century dentistry and medicine, cannon firing and more. Visitors will be welcome to try tomahawk throwing and children’s games of the era.

Activities are weather permitting.

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Fairhaven's Fort Phoenix To Hold Revolutionary War Encampment
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