FRIENDS & FAMILY
YOU’RE INVITED TO ATTEND
THE 194TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE
BATTLE OF THE RIVER RAISIN
AT THE RIVER RAISIN BATTLEFIELD VISITOR CENTER
STARTING AT 11:30am, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2007
PLEASE COME
CEREMONY & LECTURE ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND IN PERIOD ATTIRE
DETAILS
LOCATIONS:
Ceremonies will be held at the River Raisin Battlefield Visitor Center, 1403 East Elm Avenue, Monroe, Michigan 48162 , ¼ mile west of I-75 exit 14.
Lecture will be held at the 1st Presbyterian Church, 108 Washington Street, downtown Monroe.
SCHEDULE: Visitor center opens at 10:00 a.m., re-enactors arrive by 11:00 a.m. Commemoration ceremonies start at 11:30 a.m. Lunch for re-enactors only starts at 12:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church hall. Free parking off second Street behind church or at Monroe Museum.
Two p.m. PROGRAM: At The First Presbyterian Church -- John Trowbridge, Command Historian for the Kentucky National Guard, will be the speaker. His topic will be on “Kentuckians in the Old Northwest Territory.”
INFORMATION: 1812 Era Re-enactors for ceremony welcome; for questions, call the main Museum at 734-240-7780 or e-mail: lynn_reaume@monroemi.org
Picture credit: detail from “The Ice Bridge at Longueuil,” c.1847, by Cornelius Krieghoff,; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa In Krieghoff, by J. Russell Harper, p35
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