BRIMFIELD – Jubilee State Park will come alive with the sights and sounds of a colonial settlement organized by the Colonial Event Committee, an organization of dozens of amateur historians and re-enactors. Anyone who has watched the History Channel or seen the movie “Patriot” will love being part of history come alive.

Scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, September 25-26,

 the event will feature colonial, civilian and military life from 1750 to 1790. Visitors will be able to visit a Native American village, interact with colonists in their everyday life and participate in soldier’s drills and military tactics with British Red Coats. The guest-friendly event will strive to educate the public and will be situated on the 3,300 acres of forest and prairie wilderness that comprise Jubilee State Park. Event time are Saturday, 9:00 AM -5:00 PM and, Sunday- 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Admission fee is $10 per car.
Food and drink will be available for purchase from the Brimfield Men’s Club, and the air will be filled with live music by accomplished musicians of period music.
With years of re-enacting experience and a love of living history the re-enactor’s group found Jubilee College State Park to be the perfect wilderness setting for a Colonial settlement. The event will include characters from Colonial History, such as French Fur traders, Native Americans, British Soldiers and Colonists. Public participation is the goal at this event. Reenactors from at least eight states will take part.
“We want families to have a good time”, said event organizer Jim Winter, Captain of American Provincial Forces. “The public will be able to take part in and do things and not just watch.”
Special features of the weekend will include: British Redcoat military drills, Minutemen, Woodland Indian village, musicians, hunters, trades and crafts people, settlers building a cabin, battle reenactment, and much more.    
Come see Colonial daily life first hand by taking part in activities and experience what it would have been like to live 250 years ago in early Colonial America.
Jubilee College State Park can be reached from I-74. For more information, contact Jim Winter at 708-269-1965 or visit  www.peoria.org/events.