{"id":38271,"date":"2023-02-21T13:19:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=38271"},"modified":"2023-02-21T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T18:19:31","slug":"fort-frederick-state-park-bringing-the-winter-of-1757-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/02\/21\/fort-frederick-state-park-bringing-the-winter-of-1757-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Frederick State Park Bringing the Winter of 1757 to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Living History Event Takes Place February 25\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/530\/19127504473_afd7ce3ca8.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of soldiers in colonial costume firing muskets\" width=\"349\" height=\"232\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryland DNR photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/western\/fortfrederick.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fort Frederick State Park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> invites visitors to experience what life was like at the fort in the winter during the French and Indian War as it presents the program, \u201cFreezing on the Frontier,\u201d on Saturday, February 25.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visitors will get a firsthand look at what life was like for soldiers of the Maryland Companies of Foot at Fort Frederick during the winter of 1757. Living historians and Fort Frederick staff will demonstrate musket firing, hearth cooking, military drills, and programming on how the soldiers survived the winter.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fort was built by the colonial government of Maryland in 1756, during the French and Indian War, to defend British colonists against raids by enemy forces. Although no military action occurred at Fort Frederick during that war, it did serve as an important staging area and supply base for British operations further west. The troops garrisoned there endured some harsh conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe \u2018Freezing on the Frontier\u2019 program allows our visitors to travel back in time and participate in the daily activities performed by the soldiers at the fort during the bleak winter of 1757,\u201d said Park Ranger Rob Ambrose, one of the park\u2019s historic interpreters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The events take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.\u00a0 Events begin with a flag raising ceremony,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A service charge of $3 per vehicle for Maryland residents and $5 for nonresidents will be charged at the gate. Visitors should also be advised that disabled access is available, although most of the activities are on grassy areas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living History Event Takes Place February 25\u00a0 Fort Frederick State Park invites visitors to experience what life was like at the fort in the winter during the French and Indian War as it presents the program, \u201cFreezing on the Frontier,\u201d on Saturday, February 25. Visitors will get a firsthand look at what life was like<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/02\/21\/fort-frederick-state-park-bringing-the-winter-of-1757-to-life\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[3007,3649,5028],"class_list":["post-38271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-fort-frederick-state-park","tag-french-and-indian-war","tag-historical-reenactments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38275,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38271\/revisions\/38275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}