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5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769
301-464-5291; TTY 301-699-2544; Fax 301-464-5654


Marching Thru Time

MARCHING THROUGH TIME

(EVERY EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO HOLD THIS EVENT RAIN OR SHINE)

April 14 & 15, 11 am -5 pm
Spend the day at our annual multi-period living history encampment including re-enactors from 1st c. Romans through 20th c. World War II and more. Demonstrations include camp and domestic life, cooking, crafts, weaponry, and military drills. Also featuring period merchants and food. No pets please. Free parking at Glenn Dale Community Center with continuous shuttle service to event. Fee: $8/adults, $3/ages 4-18, free/ages 3 & under


Marching Through Time Demonstrations

On the Upper Field Unless Indicated Otherwise
(ALL TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE)

11:00 am
1st c. Roman Artillery

11:20 am
13th c. Knights of Hospitaller/Crusades

11:35 am
14th c. Swords of Chivalry

11:50 am
16th c. Das Teufels Alpdrucken Fahnlein

12:00 noon
Thrir Venstri Foetr Dancing Demo - Pole Barn

12:00 noon
House Tours Available

12:10 pm
15th c. War of the Roses / Lord Grey's Retinue

12:30 pm
16th c. Lord Scropes Retinue

12:30 pm
20th c. 3rd Marines at Pole barn

12:45 pm
16th c. Archery Demonstration

1:00 pm
20th c. 51st Engineers WWII at Pole Barn

1:30 pm
14th c. La Belle Compagnie at Pole Barn

1:05 pm
17th c. Army of Charles II

1:25 pm
1st c. Roman Legion Drills

1:40 pm
18th c. Privateers

2:00 pm
Thrir Venstri Foetr Dancing Demo - Pole Barn

2:00 pm
House Tours Available

2:00 pm
18th c. Appins/Scots

2:15 pm
18th c. French & Indian War

2:30 pm
17th c. Eightly First Orta/Ottoman Empire at Pole Barn

2:35 pm
18thc. Revolutionary War

3:00 pm
ROMAN LEGION XXIV AT POLE BARN

3:00 pm
19th c. American Civil War

3:20 pm
19th c. Battery M/American Civil War

3:30 pm
House Tours Available

3:40 pm
20th c. World War II

4:00 pm
20th c. Vietnam War

4:20 pm
17th c. Thrir Venstri Foetr Dancers Upper Field

4:35 pm
All units parade

5:00 pm
Camps and Site close to visitors





Reenactment Groups Scheduled to Appear

BC Tuath Corr/Bronze/Iron Age Celts

1st -11th C.

  • XX Legion/Roman
  • XXIV Legion/Roman
  • Longship Company

12th-17th C.

  • Crusades / Knights of Hospitaller
  • Swords of Chivalry
  • 100 Years War/La Belle Compagnie
  • War of the Roses/Lord Grey's Retinue/Lancaster
  • War of the Roses/Squire's Camp/York
  • Tudor England/Lord Scrope's Retinue
  • Das Teufels Alpdrucken Fahnlein/H R Empire
  • Southcoast Historical/New England Fur Trading
  • Army of Charles II
  • Eighty First Orta/Ottoman Empire

18th C.

  • Sea Rats Atlantic
  • Merrick's Privateers
  • Appin Historical Society/Scots Jacobite Rebellion
  • F & I War/ Dagworthy's Co of MD Forces
  • F & I War/Royal Regiment of Foot
  • Long Hunters
  • American Revolutionary War
    • Maryland Loyalist Bn | 84th Highlanders
    • Rgt. von Knyphausen/Hessian Guard
    • Rgt. von Huyn /Hessian Regiment
    • Brooke's Company

19th C.

  • Co. H. US Infantry/Ft. Saginaw, MI 1823
  • American Civil War
    • 7th Maryland US
    • Battery M US o
    • 15th NJ US
    • 1st MD Bn Co A & B CSA
    • 46th VA Infantry, Co. F CSA
    • 3rd South Carolina Volunteers Co. B CSA
  • Old West Shootist Society/Indian Wars 1880
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • 24th Regiment of Foot/Victorian British Soldiers

20th C.

  • Irish Volunteers in the 1916 Easter Rebellion
  • World War I
    • 110 MG BN AEF
    • 2nd Rgt. Grenadiers
  • World War II
    • 15th Scottish Div.
    • 4th Inf. MP Platoon USo 2nd Mountain Div.137/Austria.
    • 51st Engineer Combat Bn. US
    • Historic Impressions/ US GI Italy
    • Long Range Desert Group/Brit. Army/N. Africa
    • 82nd Airbourne/508th PIR
    • 3rd Marines at Bougainville
  • Vietnam War/Delta Troop 1/4th Cavalry, 1st I.D.
  • Mot-Schutzenregiment 16/East German Infantry
  • Recce PLN 10 Para

Performance & Special Demonstrations

  • Thrir Venstri Foetr Dancers
  • Archery Bow Making by Jim Frank







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