Join us at the Homestead for our Harvest Festival, October 7 from 10-4!
Fall harvesting marks the beginning of the big push to get ready for winter here in Maine and the Camden-Rockport Historical Society invites you to celebrate the season with us on Saturday, October 7 from 10-4. Multiple historical harvest activities, demonstrations and treats will take place alongside the demonstrations. The historical interpreters of Early Camden […]
Interested in signing up for our history camp this year? Your children will live a week in the life of a homesteading family from the late 1700s, including making their own books and ink, carding and spinning wool, and cooking over an open hearth. Returning campers will build on skills learned last year for a […]
Join us at the Homestead for our annual celebration of Maine Maple Sunday on March 26 from 12-3PM! The sugar shack will be open for tours, and living history interpreters will be demonstrating life as early settlers of midcoast Maine in the 1770s. Visitors can participate in sap boiling, hearth cooking, wood splitting with a […]
All encampments will be from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and will be held at the Camden-Rockport Historical Society’s Thorndike House. The Troops at Camden is a volunteer group working exclusively with the CRHS as historical interpreters. At this time the Troops/CRHS are not inviting outside groups to our events. Participants in the encampments must […]
All encampments will be from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and will be held at the Camden-Rockport Historical Society’s Thorndike House. The Troops at Camden is a volunteer group working exclusively with the CRHS as historical interpreters. At this time the Troops/CRHS are not inviting outside groups to our events. Participants in the encampments must […]
This summer at the Homestead, we will be introducing young learners to what life was like as a Colonial settler with our Homestead History Program. This pilot program will be a “trip back in time” immersion in hands-on exploration and learning about life in the 18th century. This immersive program is one week long, from […]
All encampments will be from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and will be held at the Camden-Rockport Historical Society’s Thorndike House. The Troops at Camden is a volunteer group working exclusively with the CRHS as historical interpreters. At this time the Troops/CRHS are not inviting outside groups to our events. Participants in the encampments must […]
This summer at the Homestead, we will be introducing young learners to what life was like as a Colonial settler with our Homestead History Program. This pilot program will be a “trip back in time” immersion in hands-on exploration and learning about life in the 18th century. This immersive program is one week long, from […]
This summer at the Homestead, we will be introducing young learners to what life was like as a Colonial settler with our Homestead History Program. This pilot program will be a “trip back in time” immersion in hands-on exploration and learning about life in the 18th century. This immersive program is one week long, from […]
Come learn about Camden and Rockport early settlers at the time of the American Revolution. There will be tours of the 1770s Homestead, history talks, discussion of weapons and equipment of the soldiers (including musket loading and firing demonstrations), childrens’ games, open-hearth cooking and more!