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Summer Day Camps 2010

History In Your Backyard
Location: Regional History Museum
Date: June 14-18, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Students learn how archaeologists uncover artifacts and use the information they gather to discover who lived there and what they did. It's not all about Indiana Jones, but the cool fragments we dig up can tell us things about the history that happened in our own backyard.

Junior Historian Camp
Location: Regional History Museum
Date: July 12-16, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Students learn how to research their ancestors and uncover their family history using techniques that real historians would use.

Spartanburg's Military History
Location: Regional History Museum
Date: July 26-30, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Spartanburg County has a rich history connected to our country's military. From the battles of the American Revolution to the training camps located here during World Wars I and II, students will learn about the impact that local people and places have had on our nation's military history.

Day camps at the Regional History Museum are open to children ages 8 to 13 and each camp cost $100 per child. Contact Nannie Jefferies at 596-3501 or njefferies@spartanburghistory.org for more information or to register.

Camp Colonial: A Living History Camp at Walnut Grove Plantation
Location: Walnut Grove Plantation
Date: June 15-17, 2010;  9 a.m. to Noon
During this fun and intense 3-day morning camp, students work and play the colonial way through activities such as cooking, gardening, basket making, fence building, and more while learning about the life and times of the Moore Family of Walnut Grove Plantation.

Camp Colonial is open to children entering the 4th or 5th grades in the 2010-2011 school year and costs $60 per child. Contact Zac Cunningham at 576-6546 or walnutgrove@spartanburghistory.org for information or to register.

Colonial Gardening on the Plantation

Walnut Grove Plantation's vegetable and herb gardens served as crucial food sources for the Moore family.  Meet Gardener Tim Foster and his assistant gardeners as they share plants, techniques, and tastes of the colonial- and revolutionary-era garden.  The plantation's gardens and fields probably fed others besides the Moore family.  Patriot and Loyalist militia alike frequently foraged food from farms and plantations like Walnut Grove.  Throughout the day, local reenactors from the South Carolina Rangers will demonstrate camp cooking techniques as well as fire making skills and other military survival techniques. Militia drills and weapons demonstrations will occur as well.  Blacksmith Bruce Mills will be forging tools for the garden and plantation at Walnut Grove's forge.  Tours of the historic buildings will be available throughout the day.  Bring a picnic and make a day of it!

Admission: $6.00 ages 18+, $3 ages 6-17, Free ages 5 and under. Contact Zac Cunningham at 864-576-6546 or walnutgrove@spartanburghistory.org for more information.

Downtown Spartanburg Walking Tour

Begins at Regional History Museum, 200 E. St. John St., Spartanburg
June 19, 2009 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Admission: $10 adults, $5 students
Limited to 30

Downtown walking tours begin at the Regional History Museum and proceed to East Main Street, through Morgan Square, down Magnolia Street and back along St. John Street.  Participants will have a chance to see historic photographs that depict historical views of downtown Spartanburg from where they were taken.  Additionally, we'll hear fascinating and often humorous stories about downtown and its occupants.  Downtown has changed a lot since 1787, and there is no better way to see it than by standing in the places where history happened!  Tours will be canceled in the case of inclement weather.  Custom tours for school and civic groups also available.

To make reservations or for more information, contact Brad Steinecke at 596-3501 or by emailing bsteinecke@spartanburghistory.org.

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