2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

Civil War Reenactment at OWW

Old World Wisconsin, the Midwest's largest outdoor living history museum, showcases the life of immigrants to the State of Wisconsin in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is owned and operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society and occupies nearly 600 acres in the rolling hills of the Kettle Moraine area of Southeast Wisconsin near the small village of Eagle. It includes nine ethnic farms plus a village with a blacksmith, cobbler, general store, church, inn, shoe shop, and several residences. Interpreters dress in period clothing and go about their daily chores of farming, cooking, laundry, shoe making, blacksmithing, etc. The 40 some odd historic builldings on the site were moved to Old World from various locations in the early 1970s. The museum was opened to the public as the bicentennial project of the State of Wisconsin in 1976.

For many years Old World hosted a Civil War reenactment during Labor Day weekend. The last one was held in 2008.
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Civil War reenactors at their morning muster in Crossroads Village.
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Civil War reenactors at their morning muster in Crossroads Village.

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  • Civil War reenactors at their morning muster in Crossroads Village.
  • A travelling reenactor blacksmith who follows the Union Army discusses his equipment with a visitor in Crossroads Village.
  • An artillery reenactor commander covers his ears before a cannon is fired in Loomer Field in Crossroads Village.
  • Civil War reenactor artillery men cover their ears while firing a cannon.
  • A Union sympathizer gets pressed into duty as a lookout for possible Rebel reenactors who might be in the area.
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  • Union soldiers cart away food and household items they have "liberated" from the Schulz farm. Women from the area, abhorred by this action, follow closely behind.
  • Union Army Civil War reenactors at their morning muster in Crossroads Village.
  • A woman reenactor at the Rankinen farm in the Finnish area holds a hoe in her hand that she grabbed as a weapon and yells to Rebel soldiers who are ransacking her farm.
  • A Union soldier reenactor mourns the loss of one of his comrades.
  • A Civil War reenactors band gives an evening concert in their tent encamptment.
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