Somerset County’s Weekend Journey through the Past, a collaborative heritage tourism program, will showcase 27 significant historic sites countywide that will be open to the public free of charge on Saturday, Oct. 13, from 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 14, from noon to 4 p.m.
This annual event will feature many special activities, including a contest for prizes; interpreted tours led by costumed docents; special collections and exhibitions; period military drills and encampment with living-history re-enactors; open-hearth cooking; colonial tavern life; traditional blacksmithing; 19th-century firefighting wagons and apparatus, and much more.
The Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission hosts the annual event. For details and a list of sites, visit www.SCHistoryWeekend.com
