We are so excited to be part of this NEW event in 2023!

Visit the event website here to find all the information about the weekend’s festivities. Note to the public: While the Website is, at this time, intended for living historian recruitment, it provides excellent details on what story the organizers will tell. Additional information: Bill Watson,   wjwatson1967@gmail.com

The American Civil War comes to Pike County this August when the PIke County Historical Society and the 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry present "Defending the C&O Canal" at Lockhouse 16 on the Lackawaxen River. Located: 495 Towpath RoadHawley, PA 18428

The event will feature tours of Union and Confederate encampments, interpreters in period garb detailing the lives of both soldiers and civilians during the war, plus the life and work of a typical lockhouse family on the Delaware and Hudson canal in the 1800s. The similarity between the Lackawaxen Valley -- a  river, railroad and canal route for commerce -- and the Potomac River valley -- a major river, the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and a railroad --  will be used to demonstrate late-war military tactics and maneuvers. The C&O was a chronic target for Confederate raiders and a major supply route between the eastern and western theatres of the war for the Union armies.

Save the Date:  Aug. 12-13, 2023. Camps open 10 a.m. Military demonstrations, 2 p.m.  each day. Camps close 4 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Entry fee to the civil war event is $10/adult - Pay at the door

On-site food and beverages will be available from 11am-2pm at the Cannonball Cafe.

PARKING: Event signs will be posted along Towpath road to direct you to Engvaldsen Road, where parking will be. Please follow the signs.