Oak Creek Historical Society Fall Festival

This year’s theme is “A Tribute to Oak Creek Pioneer Farming.” Visitors are invited to the old Town Hall to check the 1876 plat map to see whose farm they live on now, along with who owned the sites of businesses where they shop. Research about some of the original farms will be available, and descendants of pioneer families are asked to provide information and photos. And equipment from the Pioneer Farm Machinery Club will be on display, in addition to an operating antique water pump. 

Re-enactors at the festival will include some from the Civil War, plus the descendant of an 1864 Medal of Honor recipient, and the 3rd Recon Troop and 3rd Infantry Division from World War II. Others will discuss the history of the Blair Mountain Miners Revolt in West Virginia in 1921 and the revolt in Ireland in 1919.

The festival also will feature a working blacksmith, a fur trader, weaver and spinner. Authentic Native American crafts will be for sale, along with luncheon items, baked goods, honey, books and other publications – including three dealing with Oak Creek history – along with many other products.

A handmade quilt is the grand prize in the Historical Society’s fund-raising raffle, for which tickets cost $1. The many other prizes include an autographed football from the 2012 Green Bay Packers.