Indian scout looking at tracks at the edge of Lake Loretta in Alley Park during a performance of Frontier Spirit 1799 presented by the Frontier Players Associaton, Lancaster, Ohio Indian scout looking at tracks at the edge of Lake Loretta in Alley Park during a performance of Frontier Spirit 1799 presented by the Frontier Players Associaton, Lancaster, Ohio Frontier Spirit celebrates it's 25 anniversary performance during Ohio's bi-centennial during 2003 at Alley Park, Lancaster, Ohio
Frontier Players Association presents Frontier Spirit 1799, Alley Park, Lancaster, Ohio last Sat. and Sun in September. Frontier Players Association presents Frontier Spirit 1799, Alley Park, Lancaster, Ohio last Sat. and Sun in September.


 

September 27 & 28, 2008
"Frontier Spirit 1799"
31st Anniversary Performance

Join us as the Frontier Players Association marks their 31st year of telling the history of the settling of Lancaster and Fairfield County. This year's village will show some of the hardships and tensions encountered on the Ohio frontier when natives were still a potential threat and merely surviving was a full time activity. Also featured this year will be an enlarged village more demonstrations of cooking, crafts, speeches by local politicians, the sounds of period musicians, 18th century craftsmen plying their trades and games of the times for both adults and children. The marquis tent will host the entertainment. You will even get to taste authentic period foods. The village is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m Bring your whole family for an enjoyable day.

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Frontier Spirit 1799 presented each year in Alley Park, Lancaster Ohio in September by the Frontier Players Association


In April of 1798, Captain Joseph Hunter, a bold and enterprising man, emigrated to Ohio from Kentucky to settle on the Zane's Trace in an area later known as "Hunter's Settlement" (now part of Lancaster, Ohio). Starting slowly, soon other settlers began emigrating into this untamed region. By the fall of 1800, the town of "New Lancaster" was established and in December of that year, Fairfield County was organized by proclamation of Territorial Governor St. Clair.

This drama focuses on the new settlers and their associations with the hardy pioneers who had come before and challenged this exciting land of opportunity called the Ohio Territory.

Early settler in the Ohio Frontier at the Frontier Spirit 1799 living history production

The Frontier Players Association, is dedicated to presenting Fairfield County and Central Ohio early history as a wholesome family oriented experience. We make early, real historic persons come alive and invite the public to interact with them and become a part of "Living History".

If you have limited mobility and are unable to make the hike on our history trail, enjoy the many activities in our historical village. Special performances will take place through the day.

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