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NOTE: A Post-Event Page has now been set up for the Rich Mountain Reenactment and Tour of 2011 and already has many good links about the big tour and reenactment weekend. You can see that HERE.
(What follows below is the original pre-event information: now also history!)
Commemorate the start of the Civil War in the mountains of
West Virginia.
1. SCHEDULE FOR FREE TOUR EVENTS
2. REENACTMENT SCHEDULE
3. BEVERLY HERITAGE CENTER & BATTLEFIELD SCHEDULES
4. MAP AND DIRECTIONS
5. EVENT INFORMATION FOR VISITORS AND REENACTORS
6. PRESS MATERIALS - TEXT RELEASES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
*July 6,
6 pm Reception with
hearty hors doevres, music, Civil War Art Exhibit.
8 pm Speaker Hunter
Lesser “The First Campaign”
Randolph County Community Arts Center, Elkins
*July 7
– 8 pm Speaker A. Wilson Greene,
Harper-McNeely Auditorium, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins
*July 8 –
8 pm Blue and Gray Choir concert,
*FREE to the public through sponsorship by the West Virginia
Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission
REENACTMENT SCHEDULE
150th
Scheduled events at
Reenactment activities take place at or near Field of Fire Park
and Camp Garnett, at the western side of Rich Mountain. Signs
will direct visitors to the site from Beverly OR from Route 33
west of Elkins at Norton exit. Plan ahead to allow at least ½
hour from Elkins to get to the site, plus time to park and walk
to activities.
Saturday July 9
11 – 3 Guided tours of site at the BattlefieldSunday July 10
11 – 1 Guided tours of site at the Battlefield
Monday, July 11
6:00 pm
Commemoration
Ceremony at Rich Mountain Battlefield:
Rich Mountain 150 Years ago today.
Beverly
Corner of Main St. & Files Creek Rd., Beverly
Tuesday July 5 through Monday July 11
10 am to 4 pm each day, until 6 pm on Friday
Museum, Visitor Services, and Gift Shop
Living History at Beverly Heritage Center or in Beverly
Rich Mountain Battlefield Civil War Site
Five miles west of Beverly on Rich Mountain Road
Open to the Public Dawn to Dusk Daily
Self Guided Tours: follow interpretive signs
During Reenactment
Guided tours at Battlefield:
11 – 3 on Saturday (9 July) and from 11
– 1 on Sunday
Contents copyright 2011 Rich Mountain Battlefield Foundation