Demo Day: Fire Making
For this demo day, watch as San Jacinto Battleground educators demonstrate how to use a flint and steel to prepare a fire, and learn how to make your own char-cloth. We’ll even show you how to create your own Texian fire making kit!
Special Program- Butchering & Curing *Weather Dependent* (Saturday)
Join us for our annual butchering and curing weekend, where we will be butchering a hog on Saturday and beginning the curing process on Sunday. This program will be ongoing, so if you wish to see every step, you must attend the entire event. Program is dependent on cool weather.
Special Program- Butchering & Curing *Weather Dependent* (Sunday)
Join us for our annual butchering and curing weekend, where we will be butchering a hog on Saturday and beginning the curing process on Sunday. This program will be ongoing, so if you wish to see every step, you must attend the entire event. Program is dependent on cool weather.
Huddled 'round the Hearth (Saturday)
Practice your stitches while making a pincushion in the parlor of the main house, and head to the Quarter to try your hand sewing leather at the stitching horse!
Huddled 'round the Hearth (Sunday)
Practice your stitches while making a pincushion in the parlor of the main house, and head to the Quarter to try your hand sewing leather at the stitching horse!
Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter (Saturday)
Start your experience behind the Jones Home in the bustle of a busy plantation kitchen and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of a hearth cooked meal being prepared.
Cooking in the Kitchen & Quarter (Sunday)
Start your experience behind the Jones Home in the bustle of a busy plantation kitchen and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of a hearth cooked meal being prepared.
Special Program- Beasts of Burden (Saturday)
Join Barrington Plantation and the Texas Draft Horse and Mule Association in a unique opportunity to experience draft animals at work! Activities are dependent on weather and soil conditions.
Special Program- Beasts of Burden
Join Barrington Plantation and the Texas Draft Horse and Mule Association in a unique opportunity to experience draft animals at work! Activities are dependent on weather and soil conditions.
Special Program- Beasts of Burden (Sunday)
Join Barrington Plantation and the Texas Draft Horse and Mule Association in a unique opportunity to experience draft animals at work! Activities are dependent on weather and soil conditions.