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Living historian Rod Miner speaks to visitors at a previous Fort Cooper Days.
Seminole reenactor Matthew Griffin at a previous Fort Cooper Days.
The Friends of Fort Cooper State Park, in partnership with park staff and rangers, invite the public to Fort Cooper Days where volunteers will reenact the battles and skirmishes at the historic site of the original Fort.
The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 18 and 19, with the reenactments at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. both days.
The Fort Cooper Days event commemorates the conflicts between the local Seminole tribes residing in the Cove of the Withlacoochee with the invading First Georgia Battalion Volunteers as part of the ongoing Second Seminole War.
During the event, living historians will depict the culture, life and occupations of the 1800s. Visitors can interact with trappers, a “crack” cattleman, sutlers, weavers, a trading post, and militia and Seminole reenactors.
Admission to Fort Cooper Days is $8 per person, 13 years and older. Refreshments will be available for purchase prepared by members of the Boy Scout Troop 302, Greater Tampa Council.
Additionally, a new Fort wall palisade has been erected and a ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 18, at the fort site. The ceremony will celebrate the reconstruction of the fort’s palisade wall, funded by grants received from the Florida State Parks Foundation and the Arthur B. Fairman Trust, John H. Eden IV, trustee. This new fort wall serves as a replica of one of the original Fort walls.
Fort Cooper State Park is at 3100 S. Old Floral City Road, Inverness. For more information, call 352-726-0315 or go online to thefriendsoffortcooper.com.
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