Missouri Town 1855’s Fall Festival and 50th Anniversary

Missouri Town 1855 will be having their annual Fall Festival of Arts, Crafts and Music on October 4th and 5th. You can enjoy 1850’s music and dance, horse-drawn buggy rides, hot-spiced cider, children’s games, period arts and crafts and fun-filled hay rides at the Fall Festival. This year Missouri Town will also be honoring the 50th Anniversary of the village.

Missouri Town 1855 was never a real village in which real people lived and worked. Instead, it is a reconstruction of what a person may have found at a Missouri crossroads during the mid-19th Century. The buildings in the village were moved to Missouri Town 1855 from other locations in seven different western Missouri counties. These are actual buildings from the mid-19th Century. The year 1855 was chosen to interpret because it was the last year before the Kansas-Missouri border fighting began to disrupt the area. By 1856, shootings, lynchings and other violence had polarized pro-slavery and anti-slavery adherents into open conflict.

The festival will be open on Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Admission for the festival is $10.00 per car/van or $20.00 per school/commercial bus. For more information on Missouri Town 1855 please visit their website at www.jacksongov.org/missouritown or you can call them at (816) 524-8770.