Friends of Fort Harrod Guardians of the Fort

Please welcome our newest member, Harrodsburg First Main Street Program! Thank you to the Harrodsburg First Program for supporting our mission at the Old Fort Harrod State Park! And, thank you for the $50.00 donation!

The Friends of Fort Harrod are going back to school!

Friends have been invited to do a historical presentation at the Burgin Independent School on May 27, 2015 from 1:30 -3:00 pm.

Friends will do a presentation about the history of "Fort Harrod" and "Life on the Frontier" for Carrie Mays' 4th and 5th Grade Social Studies Classes, totaling about 84 youngsters.

The presentation will be done in the Library by Larry, Archie, Tommy, Jeanette, Alex, Jill and Lisa. At the end, they will move outdoors where Archie will do a frontier fire making demonstration and the guys will load and fire their flintlocks.

Here is our next repair mission at the Park, re-painting the Lincoln Temple!

Work on the Museum shutters and windows is underway. Friends of Fort Harrod donated $2,500.00 for the project. Here is a photo showing that the shutters have been removed for repairs. The overgrown vegetation has been removed. The shutters will be painted in Frankfort and then Park Staff will re-install the shutters and scrape and paint around the windows.

Friends of Fort Harrod will have its next regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 7:00 pm in the James Harrod Conference Center. The meeting was moved from Monday because it is Memorial Day.

We will be making preparations for the Fort Harrod Beef Festival, Harrodsburg's 241st Birthday Party and the Old Fort Harrod Settlement and Raid in June.

All are welcome!