Event Details

Viva Florida 500 Celebration by Amelia Island Museum of History

Time: 10:00 am til 4:00 pm

Location: Old Town Plaza

Description: Join us at the Old Town Plaza where the day’s activities will include:
•Reenactors depicting Fernandina’s Spanish Colonial period, along with a series of vignettes which tell the story of Amelia Island
•A recreation of a typical lot (or Peonia) as mandated by the Spanish Law of the Indies – complete with live animals!through the eyes of historical figures like Mary Mattair, Gregor MacGregor, and Luis Aury.
•Representation of Fort San Carlos (the Spanish wooden fort built in 1816), complete with a cannon discovered right here on Amelia Island by the National Park Service.
• Vendors selling Spanish Food
• Spanish Flamenco dance performance
• Middle Passage Ceremony honoring the many slaves who died on the journey from Africa to the New World.

Presentation on Spanish Colonial Foodways by Cathy Parker - Spanish Colonial Foodways Food is more than the stuff of life; it is an important part of our heritage and culture that defines us as a people. Discover how information from the written historical record, together with evidence from the archaeological record, has answered this question time after time—giving us a more complete picture, for example, of early

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Occupation of Palatka

Time: 10:00 am til 4:00 pm

Location: Bronson-Mulholland House

Description: Activities include: Firing & Canon Demonstrations; Military Drills; Civil War Era Kids Games; and Camp Life with Soldiers. The Florida Public Archaeology Network will be washing and displaying artifacts from the March excavation at the site. Free and open to the public.

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Bike Tour during National Estuaries Day

Time: 10:00 am til 12:00 pm

Location: GTM Research Reserve

Description: As part of the GTM Research Reserve's National Estuaries Day celebration, the Florida Public Archaeology Network will offer a guided bike tour of the Guana Penninsula. Learn about the more than 5,000 years of human history and visit a prehistoric mound and shell middens as well as a historic coquina well.

This event is free but registration is requested through the link below.

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Flagler Heritage Festival

Time: 10:00 am til 6:00 pm

Location: Thunder Gulch Campground, Bunnell

Description: Antique cars, food, motorcycle displays, children's games, Henry Flagler look-alike contest, vendors, re-enactors, exhibits, entertainment, pioneer luncheon, quilts and more.

$2.00 motorcycle parking
$5.00 car parking

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