2013 TRAIL OF COURAGE
| Fulton County Historical Society |
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Located in North Central Indiana
| Sept. 21-22, 2013 Saturday - open 10 a.m to 6 p.m. Sunday - open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: Adults - $7, Ages 6-11 - $3, Bus students - $2, Ages 5 and under - free No dogs or animals allowed, except to assist handicapped. |
Kenny Lone Eagle and Chief White
Eagle. We are sorry to report that
Chief White Eagle "Basil Heath"
passed away on Jan. 24, 2011 at the
age of 93. He will be greatly missed by
all.
Eagle. We are sorry to report that
Chief White Eagle "Basil Heath"
passed away on Jan. 24, 2011 at the
age of 93. He will be greatly missed by
all.
| 13,000 Attended Trail of Courage in 2010 By Shirley Willard There's history in the wind here. Red-tailed hawks circle over head, nuts fall on the tin-roofed booths and cabins, Indian flute music floats on the breeze. Over 13,000 walked through history at the 35th annual Trail of Courage Living History Festival Sept. 18-19 at Rochester, Indiana. The Potawatomi Indians were marched single file down Rochester's Main Street September 5, 1838, on the forced removal known as the Trail of Death. Since 1976 this festival has honored the American Indians and shown life before the removal when this was still Potawatomi Territory. This event combines genealogy of the Potawatomi Indians and the settlers who lived in Fulton County and northern Indiana in the early 1800s with the rendezvous events, music and dance on two stages, historic canoe landing, and fur trade skit on the Tippecanoe River. The Trail of Courage is held the third weekend of September at the Fulton County Historical Society grounds four miles north of Rochester on US 31. Frontier Indiana comes alive with foods cooked over wood fires, period music and dance, traditional crafts, historic camps and trading, canoe rides on the river, and much more. Each year a different Potawatomi family with ancestors on the Trail of Death or who signed treaties in Indiana is honored. The honored family is given a Key to the County or a Key to the City by local officials during Saturday’s Opening Ceremonies at 10 a.m. the public is invited to join in the Indian dances from 2: 00 to 3:00 p.m., which are held in an arena semi- circled by teepees. George Godfrey, Athens, Illinois, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, acts as emcee. He is president of the Potawatomi Trail of Death Association, and has been dancing at the Trail of Courage since 1988. Godfrey had an ancestor on the 1838 Trail of Death. The Trail of Courage includes historic encampments representing the French & Indian War, Voyageurs, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Western Fur Trade, Plains Indians teepees, and Woodland Indian wigwam village. A special re-creation of a Miami Village is set up by members of the Miami Indian Nation of Indiana, and includes wigwams and life ways demonstrations, such as making cattail mats. Another re-creation is of Chippeway, the first trading post, post office and village in Fulton County in 1832. Food purveyors and traditional craftsmen set up in wooden booths. Craftsmen also sell pre-1840 trade goods from blankets and in historic merchant tents, offering a variety of items from clothing and jewelry to knives and candles, everything needed to live in frontier days. Canoe rides, muzzle loading shooting and tomahawk throwing contests, and mountain man tug of war add to the frontier activities. Two stages with frontier music and dance present programs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Since the early 1980s FCHS has received grants from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts to help pay for musicians and dancers: 42nd Royal Highlanders, River Valley Colonials Fife & Drum Corp, Aztec dancers, Shakin' Hammers String Band, Mark and Liza Woolever, Steve McPhail - Johnny Appleseed, Chuck Molenda - Ben Franklin, Chief White Eagle - Indian lore, Indian dancers and drum. Many volunteers provide programs such as Frontier Frolic dance called by Shirley Willard, Nan Edwards and Margo Moore's dogs pulling travois, Marsha Glassburn - Indian storytelling, and Riddle School 4th grade dancers, Shirley Kern Needham - red-tailed hawk; Mark Gropp - bagpipes and other instruments. Both Catholic and Protestant worship services are held at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday. Pioneer foods are cooked over wood fires. Visitors can feast on buffalo burgers, chicken and noodles, barbecue, ham and beans, fish and chips cooked in big iron kettles, Indian tacos, apple dumplings, corn on the cob, apple sausage, and more, including ice cream, one of George Washington's favorite treats. Local clubs cook and serve these historic foods to fund their projects: Rotary, Kappa Delta Phi, Knights of Columbus, Lions Club, and Fulton County Historical Society. Beverly Jackson and family, Rochester, do the barbecue and sweet potato pie, and also exhibit a frontier African-American house. Many people come to the festival just for the delicious food! The grounds are handicapped accessible. Free tram rides are available to bring people from the museum, round barn and Living History Village, which are open, at the north end of the grounds. Free parking is provided on FCHS grounds. Plenty of free benches are available to sit and rest. Volunteers can earn free admission to the Trail of Courage by working half a day. To volunteer or for more information, call the museum at 574-223-4436. Visit our website at www.fultoncountyhistory.org or www.potawatomi-tda.org. The Trail of Courage will be September 17-18, 2011. The day before is School Trail Day when buses of kids come for a sample of the activities to be seen on the weekend. |
Experience the excitement of Frontier Indiana
at the Trail of Courage Sept. 15-16, 2012
Experience the excitement and adventure of Frontier Indiana at the 37th annual Trail of Courage Living History
Festival Sept. 15-16 at Rochester, Indiana. It’s a place where history comes alive, where you can trace the very
footsteps of history, and have a good time doing it.
Frontier Indiana comes alive with foods cooked over wood fires, period music and dance, traditional crafts,
historic camps and trading, canoe rides on the river, and much more. It is produced by the Fulton County
Historical Society. This event combines genealogy of the Potawatomi Indians and the settlers who lived in
Fulton County and northern Indiana in the early 1800s with rendezvous events, music and dance on two stages,
historic canoe landing and fur trade skit on the Tippecanoe River.
The Trail of Courage will be held at the FCHS grounds four miles north of Rochester on US 31 and Tippecanoe
River. Admission is $6 for adults, $2 for children (6 through 11), and free ages 5 and under. Hours are Sat. 10 a.
m. to 6 p.m. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This year the honored Potawatomi will be Edna Carpenter, Kewanna, Ind., has participated in the Trail of
Courage ever since 1976. Edna will be celebrating her 100th birthday in November. Edna and her family cook
venison chili, Indian tacos and fry bread at their American Cherokee Confederacy booth in Chippeway Village.
Carpenter’s late husband was of Cherokee descent and their daughter Joan (Pale Moon) McClellan is Chief of
the Cherokee Paint Band.
The public is invited to join in the Indian dances 2 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., which are held in an arena encircled by
teepees. The drum will be Winter Hawk Drum led by Fred Flury, Walkerton. Head dancers will be Carol Miiller,
Logansport, and Jeremy Flook, Rochester. Flook is the great-great-grandson of Edna Carpenter. George
Godfrey, Athens, Illinois, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, will act as emcee. He has been dancing at
the Trail of Courage since 1988.
Godfrey will help with the dedication of the memorial for Chief White Eagle on Sat. Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. in front
of the Fulton County Museum at the north end of the festival grounds. The memorial is an iron teepee and metal
plaque that also memorializes Tom Griffin, William Wamego, Tom Hamilton, and Leon Stewart. The 42nd
Royal Highlanders will play bagpipes for Tom Griffin, who founded their group in 1975. The public is invited to
this dedication.
The Trail of Courage includes historic encampments representing the French & Indian War, Voyageurs,
Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Western Fur Trade, Plains Indians teepees, and Woodland Indian wigwams. A
re-created Miami Village includes wigwams and lifeways demonstrations, such as making cattail mats.
Another re-creation is of Chippeway Village, which had the first trading post, post office and village in Fulton
County in 1832. Food purveyors and traditional craftsmen set up in wooden booths. Craftsmen also sell pre-
1840 trade goods from blankets and in historic merchant tents, offering a variety of items from clothing and
jewelry to knives and candles, everything needed to live in frontier days. Canoe rides, muzzle loading shooting
and tomahawk throwing contests, and a Mountain Man Tug of War add to the frontier activities.
Two stages with frontier music and dance present programs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.
m. Sunday. Since the early 1980s FCHS has received grants from the Indiana Arts Commission/ National
Endowment for the Arts to help pay for musicians and dancers. This year they include River Valley Colonials
Fife & Drum Corp, Aztec dancers, Shakin' Hammers String Band, Mark and Liza Woolever, Steve McPhail –
Johnny Appleseed, Chuck Molenda – Ben Franklin, Pam Gordon and burro as Huck and Biscuit, Indian dancers
and drum. This year’s grant was for $2,337 which is less than a third of the $6,985 cost of the performers.
Donations to match the grant are required by the Indiana Arts Commission and can be mailed to FCHS, 37 E
375 N, Rochester, IN 46975.
Many volunteers provide programs such as Frontier Frolic dance called by Shirley Willard, 78th Frasier Pipe &
Drum Corps of Culver Academy, Nan Edwards and Margo Moore’s dogs pulling travois, Marsha Glassburn -
Indian storytelling, Shirley Needham – red-tailed and red shoulder hawks; Frontier Fashion Show, and Riddle
School dancers, Mark Gropp – bagpipes. Both Catholic and Protestant worship services are held at 9:00 a.m.
on Sunday. Father Denny Kinderman, Chicago, has been coming to do Mass for over 10 years.
Pioneer foods are cooked over wood fires. Visitors can feast on buffalo burgers, apple dumplings, chicken and
noodles, barbecue, ham and beans, vegetable stew, chips cooked in big iron kettles, turkey legs, Indian tacos
and fry bread, corn on the cob, apple sausage, and more, including ice cream, one of George Washington's
favorite treats. Local clubs cook and serve these historic foods to fund their projects: Rotary, Kappa Delta Phi,
American Cherokee Confederacy, Knights of Columbus, and Fulton County Historical Society. Beverly Jackson
and family, Rochester, do the barbecue and sweet potato pie, and also exhibit a frontier African-American
house. Mark Gropp family brings homemade fudge. Many people come to the festival just for the delicious food!
The grounds are handicapped accessible. Free tram rides are available to bring people from the museum and
Living History Village at the north end of the grounds. The museum and village are open with hosts and free
admission.
Volunteers can earn free admission to the Trail of Courage by working half a day. To volunteer or for more
information, call the museum at 574-223-4436. Free parking is provided on FCHS grounds. Plenty of free
benches are available to sit and rest. For further details: www.fultoncountyhistory.org and also the Potawatomi
Trail of Death website at www.potawatomi-tda.org.
The primary purpose of the Trail of Courage is to educate the public, to preserve and promote an accurate
picture of life in frontier Indiana, as well as other areas and time periods of North American history. The festival
is based on local history, before the Potawatomi Indians were marched west on the forced removal known as
the Trail of Death. The Potawatomi were marched down Rochester’s Main Street Sept. 5, 1838, on their way to
Kansas, a journey of 660 miles that took them 10 weeks and cost them 42 lives. Since 1976 this festival has
honored the American Indians and shown life before the removal when this was still Potawatomi Territory.
at the Trail of Courage Sept. 15-16, 2012
Experience the excitement and adventure of Frontier Indiana at the 37th annual Trail of Courage Living History
Festival Sept. 15-16 at Rochester, Indiana. It’s a place where history comes alive, where you can trace the very
footsteps of history, and have a good time doing it.
Frontier Indiana comes alive with foods cooked over wood fires, period music and dance, traditional crafts,
historic camps and trading, canoe rides on the river, and much more. It is produced by the Fulton County
Historical Society. This event combines genealogy of the Potawatomi Indians and the settlers who lived in
Fulton County and northern Indiana in the early 1800s with rendezvous events, music and dance on two stages,
historic canoe landing and fur trade skit on the Tippecanoe River.
The Trail of Courage will be held at the FCHS grounds four miles north of Rochester on US 31 and Tippecanoe
River. Admission is $6 for adults, $2 for children (6 through 11), and free ages 5 and under. Hours are Sat. 10 a.
m. to 6 p.m. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This year the honored Potawatomi will be Edna Carpenter, Kewanna, Ind., has participated in the Trail of
Courage ever since 1976. Edna will be celebrating her 100th birthday in November. Edna and her family cook
venison chili, Indian tacos and fry bread at their American Cherokee Confederacy booth in Chippeway Village.
Carpenter’s late husband was of Cherokee descent and their daughter Joan (Pale Moon) McClellan is Chief of
the Cherokee Paint Band.
The public is invited to join in the Indian dances 2 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., which are held in an arena encircled by
teepees. The drum will be Winter Hawk Drum led by Fred Flury, Walkerton. Head dancers will be Carol Miiller,
Logansport, and Jeremy Flook, Rochester. Flook is the great-great-grandson of Edna Carpenter. George
Godfrey, Athens, Illinois, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, will act as emcee. He has been dancing at
the Trail of Courage since 1988.
Godfrey will help with the dedication of the memorial for Chief White Eagle on Sat. Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. in front
of the Fulton County Museum at the north end of the festival grounds. The memorial is an iron teepee and metal
plaque that also memorializes Tom Griffin, William Wamego, Tom Hamilton, and Leon Stewart. The 42nd
Royal Highlanders will play bagpipes for Tom Griffin, who founded their group in 1975. The public is invited to
this dedication.
The Trail of Courage includes historic encampments representing the French & Indian War, Voyageurs,
Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Western Fur Trade, Plains Indians teepees, and Woodland Indian wigwams. A
re-created Miami Village includes wigwams and lifeways demonstrations, such as making cattail mats.
Another re-creation is of Chippeway Village, which had the first trading post, post office and village in Fulton
County in 1832. Food purveyors and traditional craftsmen set up in wooden booths. Craftsmen also sell pre-
1840 trade goods from blankets and in historic merchant tents, offering a variety of items from clothing and
jewelry to knives and candles, everything needed to live in frontier days. Canoe rides, muzzle loading shooting
and tomahawk throwing contests, and a Mountain Man Tug of War add to the frontier activities.
Two stages with frontier music and dance present programs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.
m. Sunday. Since the early 1980s FCHS has received grants from the Indiana Arts Commission/ National
Endowment for the Arts to help pay for musicians and dancers. This year they include River Valley Colonials
Fife & Drum Corp, Aztec dancers, Shakin' Hammers String Band, Mark and Liza Woolever, Steve McPhail –
Johnny Appleseed, Chuck Molenda – Ben Franklin, Pam Gordon and burro as Huck and Biscuit, Indian dancers
and drum. This year’s grant was for $2,337 which is less than a third of the $6,985 cost of the performers.
Donations to match the grant are required by the Indiana Arts Commission and can be mailed to FCHS, 37 E
375 N, Rochester, IN 46975.
Many volunteers provide programs such as Frontier Frolic dance called by Shirley Willard, 78th Frasier Pipe &
Drum Corps of Culver Academy, Nan Edwards and Margo Moore’s dogs pulling travois, Marsha Glassburn -
Indian storytelling, Shirley Needham – red-tailed and red shoulder hawks; Frontier Fashion Show, and Riddle
School dancers, Mark Gropp – bagpipes. Both Catholic and Protestant worship services are held at 9:00 a.m.
on Sunday. Father Denny Kinderman, Chicago, has been coming to do Mass for over 10 years.
Pioneer foods are cooked over wood fires. Visitors can feast on buffalo burgers, apple dumplings, chicken and
noodles, barbecue, ham and beans, vegetable stew, chips cooked in big iron kettles, turkey legs, Indian tacos
and fry bread, corn on the cob, apple sausage, and more, including ice cream, one of George Washington's
favorite treats. Local clubs cook and serve these historic foods to fund their projects: Rotary, Kappa Delta Phi,
American Cherokee Confederacy, Knights of Columbus, and Fulton County Historical Society. Beverly Jackson
and family, Rochester, do the barbecue and sweet potato pie, and also exhibit a frontier African-American
house. Mark Gropp family brings homemade fudge. Many people come to the festival just for the delicious food!
The grounds are handicapped accessible. Free tram rides are available to bring people from the museum and
Living History Village at the north end of the grounds. The museum and village are open with hosts and free
admission.
Volunteers can earn free admission to the Trail of Courage by working half a day. To volunteer or for more
information, call the museum at 574-223-4436. Free parking is provided on FCHS grounds. Plenty of free
benches are available to sit and rest. For further details: www.fultoncountyhistory.org and also the Potawatomi
Trail of Death website at www.potawatomi-tda.org.
The primary purpose of the Trail of Courage is to educate the public, to preserve and promote an accurate
picture of life in frontier Indiana, as well as other areas and time periods of North American history. The festival
is based on local history, before the Potawatomi Indians were marched west on the forced removal known as
the Trail of Death. The Potawatomi were marched down Rochester’s Main Street Sept. 5, 1838, on their way to
Kansas, a journey of 660 miles that took them 10 weeks and cost them 42 lives. Since 1976 this festival has
honored the American Indians and shown life before the removal when this was still Potawatomi Territory.
