Staff reports
The Friends of Fort Fremont will host the 2nd annual Fort Fremont Harvest Festival from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, at the Fort Fremont Preserve at 1124 Land’s End Road, St. Helena Island, S.C.
Visitors are invited to step back in time to 1910 with period games for children and adults, music, food, crafts, and people dressed in era-appropriate costumes welcoming visitors to Edwardian Fort Fremont.
There is no admission fee. Food and crafts will be available for purchase. Free shuttle service will be provided from Land’s End Woodlands Road, just one mile from the Preserve.
This year’s event is bigger and better than last year. There will be more favorite local food vendors, more history displays from area nonprofits, including a demonstration on the Carolina rice culture, and more hands-on activities such as decorating your own hat and making corn husk dolls.
There may even be an appearance by the famous Fort Fremont baseball team.
Fort Fremont was constructed in 1898 during the Spanish-American War for coastal defense of the Port Royal Sound and the Naval Station at Parris Island. Beaufort County purchased 18 acres of the original fort for use as a passive park. The site encompasses mixed hardwood forest with walking trails, a picnic pavilion, remains of historic batteries, and a History Center with a diorama and period artifacts.
The Preserve is open to the public free of charge, Monday through Sunday from dawn to dusk. The History Center exhibit hall is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and staffed by Friends of Fort Fremont volunteers.
The Friends of Fort Fremont work with Beaufort County to preserve and promote Fort Fremont’s educational, historical, natural, and cultural resources and to interpret Fort Fremont’s history for visitors. For more information visit www.fortfremont.org.
