Save the dates! The 2018 calendar of events at Henricus Historical Park includes renowned events such as Publick Days, School of the Musketeer, Hops in the Park & more! www.henricus.org/calendar
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The Virginia Thanksgiving Festival 2017
The Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation in Virginia. Click here to view more
Photo courtesy of Charles Wissinger
New Season begins at Henricus Historical Park
Its time to clean your muskets and sharpen your swords
as anew season begins at Henricus Historical Park!
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Colonial Militia & U.S. Military Appreciation Weekend Event
May 16, 2015 was Colonial Militia & U.S. Military Appreciation Weekend Event at Henricus Historical Park in Chester, Virginia.
The event consisted of 17th century military training, including musket and cannon firing. With plenty of historical interpretation demonstrating how military tactics evolved through the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
This year the Henricus Militia kicked off the event with a fantastic 17th century timeline display of weapons and armor from the Columbus to the Napoleonic era. The exhibit even featured armor even dating back 400 years as well as featuring 17th century armored fashions from the utilitarian to the leisurely to the ridiculous!
Saturday’s event at Henricus Park was a great success with the Militia’s Arms and Armor demonstration drawing a sizable crowd on an hourly basis. 
Visitors were able to view original weapons and armor up close, pieces usually only seen in museums.
Original pieces were displayed alongside modern replicas to illustrate the constant struggle during the period between the desire for better weapons, and in turn better armor to protect the soldiers of the day. We plan on expanding this presentation for future events. Thanks to all the Henricus Militia members who shared their weapons and armor for the event.
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The hand painted portrait of Bloody Mary
Inspired by the story and images Dennis Strawderman has taken for his upcoming book, Bloody Mary and the Pirates of the Coast, artist J. Wallace Jones painted a portrait based on a photograph which was taken at the exquisite Virginia House at Agecroft Hall in Richmond, Virginia. Jones forever captures the fiery soul who is only known as Bloody Mary.
Under the pseudonym Frances Morgan, Dennis starts the first book in the trilogy covering the early years of the legendary pirate Bloody Mary and her reign of terror in Bloody Mary and the Pirates of the Coast.
In his second volume, Bloody Mary and the Brethren of the Coast, we follow the infamous female pirate into an even more dark and adventurous path. At the dawning of the Golden Age of Piracy, Bloody Mary blazed a path of death and destruction from the colony of Virginia down the Atlantic coast straight into the Caribbean.
We have yet to hear about volume 3 which is still in the works. All of the books will soon be available in Kindle and soft cover formats on amazon.com.
Henricus celebrates 400th anniversary of war between the Appamatuck Tribe and English colonists
The Henricus Militia was mentioned in an article recapping the 400th anniversary of war between the Appamatuck Tribe & English colonists event on November 2, 2013. The event, which proved successful, showed many visitors what life was like in the 1600s.
“During the re-enactment of an Appamatuck war council, visitors gained an understanding of the impact of the conflict on the tribe. The Appamatuck used English iron tools and other trade goods, but the settlers took valuable tribal lands and used women and children for work in the tobacco fields. The tribe didn’t have the advantage of leaving the area because it was surrounded by enemies: the Monacan to the west, and the Iroquois to the north and south. ”