Battle at Camp Monroe - Living History Encampment

Name: Battle at Camp Monroe - Living History Encampment
Start: 2025-02-07T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-08T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Sanford Museum

Schedule

Fri, 07 Feb, 2025 at 09:00 am to Sat, 08 Feb, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Sanford Museum | Sanford, FL

Our encampment returns in 2025! This year we are pleased to announce a partnership with the City of Sanford and the Sanford Museum: our camp will be located at the Sanford Museum in Fort Mellon Park, on the site of the original battle! This encampment is free and open to the public.
On Friday, February 7th we will have reenactors demonstrating daily life and the overarching social and political pressures which drove the Indian Removal Acts here in Florida, resulting in the longest and most expensive “Indian War” in US history. Demonstrations take place in rotating stations, and each interactive presentation lasts about 15 minutes. At the end of a full rotation we bring everyone in for the musket-firing demonstration. We cover the following topics and more:
- Reasons for the war and the battles on Lake Monroe
- Seminole culture, kit, and tactics
- Camp cooking, rations, and food preservation
- Laundresses and women in the war
- Medical and surgical “science” in the 1830s
- The US Navy in 1837 and their role in Florida
- Physics of early firearms
On Friday, February 7th we will be hosting rotating tours at 9am, 11am, and 1pm.
Friday, 9am Tour Slot: 180 spots left
Friday, 11am Tour Slot: 180 spots left
Friday, 1pm Tour Slot: 180 spots left
Please respond with your name, contact information, a total headcount (students and chaperones) and your preferred time. You can reach us over email by replying directly, or you can reserve your time over the phone at 407-665-2489.
On Saturday, February 8th the encampment is open from 9am-4pm, free to the general public! Check out our historic demonstrations and interact with our living historians!