If
you are interested in local history you might want to make a trip to
Chattahoochee this weekend.
The
third annual Scott 1817 Seminole War Battle Reenactment will be held
December 6th through the 8th at River Landing Park in Chattahoochee.
The
event commemorates the Scott Battle of 1817, the first Native
American victory of the Seminole Wars.
This
year’s event features battle reenactments on Saturday and Sunday
where Seminole, Red Stick
Creek,
and Black Seminole warriors will stage an amphibious attack on a
keelboat as it
comes
up the Apalachicola River, recreating the deadly 1817 engagement.
In
addition to the battle reenactments, visitors will experience living
history encampments of Native
Americans,
frontier settlers, and U.S. Soldiers and the keelboat Aux Arc will be
on display
Saturday
night will feature a massive luminary service honoring those who died
during the First Seminole War years.
Re-enactors
and special guests will light 400 luminaries along the banks of the
Apalachicola
River.
Each
candle remembers a U.S. soldier or civilian, Native American or Black
Seminole warrior or family member, and the 270 men, women, and
children killed when a U.S. Cannonball blew up the “Negro Fort”
on the lower Apalachicola River.
There
will also be music, exhibits, food, vendors.
The
gates open each day at 9 a.m. Eastern and close at 3 p.m..
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