Les Amis du Fort de Chartres sponsors Fort de Chartres Colonial Market Faire

Prairie du Rocher, IL (January 15, 2025) - This annual event features 18th century market and camp life (1750- 1790). The event is open and free to the general public.

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site presents Village du Fort de Chartres, in ‘Le Pays du Illinois’ (The Illinois Country) 1750 – 1790, a bustling community of shops and craftspeople. Visitors can visit and shop with merchants and blanket traders or buy something from one of the strolling peddlers hawking wares. This event features everything from camp life demonstrations by juried reenactors, a period stickball game, children playing 18th century-style games, or a demonstration at the Fort’s stone oven.

The Fort de Chartres Winter Rendezvous is hosted by Les Coureurs des Bois de Fort de Chartres and sponsored by Les Amis du Fort de Chartres. Both organizations welcome visitors, participants, and volunteers to this first special event at held at Fort de Chartres in 2025. Please check out the Fort de Chartres website, www.fortdechartres.us, for additional information and the list of the Fort’s special events and dates. For additional event information, please email lesamisdufortdechartres@gmail.com.

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site, which includes its historic Powder Magazine structure, widely considered the oldest building in Illinois, is located only an hour from downtown St. Louis, at 1350 IL Route 155, 4 miles west of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois.

The site is operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Natural Resources. IDNR protects the state’s historic resources, which contribute to education, culture and the economy. IDNR sites include ancient burial mounds, forts and buildings erected by settlers, and homes connected to famous Illinoisans. For more site information, call Fort de Chartres State Historic Site at 618-284-7230 or visit www.fortdechartres.us.

Les Amis du Fort de Chartres, “Friends of Fort de Chartres,” is a not-for-profit organization made up of volunteers striving to preserve, protect, and interpret the physical structural and cultural heritage of Fort de Chartres in the 1700s. More information about Les Amis du Fort de Chartres and its efforts sponsoring special events at Fort de Chartres, can be found at http://www.fortdechartres.us/les-amis-du-fort-de-chartres/ and at https://www.facebook.com/LesAmisduFortdeChartres/.

CONTACT

Jennifer Duensing, President of Les Amis du Fort de Chartres

 (618) 612-9098

lesamisdufortdechartres@gmail.com

 http://www.fortdechartres.us/

https://www.facebook.com/LesAmisduFortdeChartres/

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