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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A Union soldier reenactor inspects his comrade's arms.
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A Union soldier reenactor inspects his comrade's arms.

Civil WarOWWSpecial Events

  • A Civil War funeral procession in Crossroads Village headed to St. Peters church where a graveside service and burial took place.
  • Civil War reenactors at a graveside funeral service lower a coffin into a grave in the St. Peter's churchyard.
  • Civil War reenactors at a graveside funeral service in the St. Peter's churchyard.
  • Civil War reenactors give a gun salute at a graveside funeral service in the St. Peter's churchyard.
  • Women at the graveside funeral service of a fallen Civil War soldier.
  • A Civil War reenactors band marches through Crossroads Village to the site of the morning flag raising ceremony at Harmony Town Hall.
  • A Civil War reenactors band marches through Crossroads Village to the site of the morning flag raising ceremony at Harmony Town Hall.
  • Morning flag raising at Harmony Hall during the Civil War reenactment.,
  • Cavalry engage in a skirmish at the Civil War reenactment at Old World in September, 2003.
  • A Union soldier watches over a wounded Rebel following a skirmish.
  • A captured Civil War reenactor Rebel soldier, guarded by Union soldiers, is removed from the battlefied in a haywagon.
  • Union soliders guard Rebel soldiers after they were captured in a skirmish.
  • A Rebel soldier relaxes and reads his bible.
  • Two young visitors talk to Union soldier reenactors.
  • A Rebel soldier relaxes and reads his bible.
  • A travelling reenactor blacksmith who follows the Union Army.
  • Union soldier reenactors capture a deserter in Crossroads Village.
  • Cavalry train at the Civil War reenactment in 2004.
  • Cavalry train at the Civil War reenactment in 2004.
  • A Union soldier reenactor inspects his comrade's arms.
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