Visitors Center and Fort area
Education Day
Education day for area schools will be held on Friday, October 7, 2016. If you are a teacher, home school parent, or school administrator wishing to have your students attend our 2016 program, please contact Eric Abercrombie by email or phone, 325.762.3592.
Living History
The past will come to life at Fort Griffin State Historic Site on October 7-8, 2016, as living historians from all over gather to portray life at the fort and nearby Wild West town as it was in the 1870s. You're invited to join us from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days for exciting demonstrations, education, and authentic frontier history.
Activities and interpretations will include: military interpretations from various time periods with artillery, infantry, and cavalry demonstration, blacksmithing, gun fights, Drummer Boy ice cream, 1800s children’s games, period music by Time Was..., Native American culture and dancing, Texas longhorns, the Texas Camel Corps, and frontier living.
We also hope to have back this year volunteers from Abilene's 12th Armored Division to portray World War II history with lots of period weaponry and demonstrations.
