Cook Forest State Park will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French & Indian War.

Download 2010 Encampment Flyer Event Schedule   Artists, Sutlers and Units   Photos from the 2009 Encampment   Many thanks to all the donors!

Highlights of this full two-day encampment sponsored by the Sawmill Center for the Arts include woodland natives, cannon and musket firing, cooking, primitive skills, 18th century surgical techniques, clothing demonstrations, flintknapping, blacksmithing, pottery, woodworking, sheep
shearing, sutler camp, live tactical engagements, renown living historians and French & Indian War Era artists.

Take a walk back in time along the Black Bear Trail by the Sawmill Center for the Arts during open camp hours, to view over 125 British, Colonial, French, and Native American re-enactors as they portray lifestyles of the 18th century.