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Start Date
Saturday, November 04, 2023
End Date
Sunday, November 05, 2023
Time
Saturday: 10:00am - 5:00pm, Sunday: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Title
2023 Fort de Chartres Winter Rendezvous
Description
This event features 18th and early 19th century camp life and reenactors who participate in a muzzleloader woods walk shooting competition.
Fort de Chartres State Historic Site presents a weekend of colorful clothing, hand-made crafts, period music and delicious food when the annual Winter Rendezvous returns November 4 & 5. Saturday: 10:00am - 5:00pm, Sunday: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Soldiers, trappers, traders and Native Americans (as portrayed by historic re-enactors) will gather at the rendezvous. They’ll trade goods, buy supplies, and some will take part in a shooting contest that requires them to walk through the woods and fire flintlocks at pop-up targets.
The rendezvous is fun both for the participants demonstrating frontier life from 1700 to1820 and for visitors spending an autumn day wandering among the tents, campfires and historic French colonial fort. The event is open and free to the general public. This event is hosted by Les Coureurs des Bois de Fort de Chartres and sponsored by Les Amis du Fort de Chartres. Please check the Winter Rendezvous page of this website for an event flyer, participant and/or event rules information, and for any relevant event updates.
For More Information
http://www.fortdechartres.us/fort-de-chartres-winter-rendezvous/ or visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/1780657395485299.
For special event information: lcdbdfdc1976@gmail.com.
Hosted by: Les Coureurs des Bois de Fort de Chartres
Sponsored by: Les Amis du Fort de Chartres
For general site information, call 618.284.7230.
Event Type
Crafts, Cultural Resources, Family Event, Festival, Historic Site, History, Outdoor Event, Reenactment
DNR Region
West Central IL
Location
Fort de Chartres
DNR Park
Fort de Chartres State Historic Site
Address
1350 State Route 155
City
Prairie du Rocher
State
IL
Zip
62277
Directions
Located on Illinois Route 155, four miles west of Prairie du Rocher.
- lcdbdfdc1976@gmail.com
Phone
618.284.7230
Map