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Annual Events

Heritage Fair

This event is held each year on first Saturday in May.  It celebrates history by inviting various living history groups to participate in conveying various time periods in history. Groups will represent time periods as diverse as the Viking era to the birth of American baseball.  

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Goodnight Trail Chuckwagon Dinner

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This event is a new annual event for the South Platte Valley Historical Society.  It is our fall fundraiser and it is limited to 100 guests.  Fort Lancaster (a.k.a Historic Fort Lupton) along with the other three trade forts built on the banks of the South Platte River set the stage for the development of the Northeast part of Colorado.  After the Indian trade period, came the period of ranching and cattle drives.  This event celebrates that period of time and the famous trail that passed to the east of Fort Lupton on its way to Cheyenne Wyoming.
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Rendezvous

There are several Rendezvous held each year conducted by the re-enactment group of the society, which is the TALLOW RIVER TRAPPERS (TRT).  The rendezvous events conducted by the TRT are:


Frozen Toes Rendezvous held in late February


Lancaster Rendezvous held over Memorial Day Weekend


Trapper Days Rendezvous held the weekend after Labor Day


Hunter Widow's Rendezvous (Ladies Only) held in mid-September


Colonial Encampment held in early October




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