Join us at Fort Kearny State Historical Park for an Independence Day Weekend celebration!

Visitors to the park will be able to explore exhibits and the reconstructed buildings, including the stockade, grounds, powder magazine and blacksmith/carpenter shop.

Take a step back in time and experience what it was like to be stationed on the western frontier during the 1860s, and while you are here be sure to watch them fire off one of their cannons!

There will be living history demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., as well as Monday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Reenactors will be at the park to discuss life as a soldier during the fort’s early days.

Visitors to the park will be able to explore exhibits and the reconstructed buildings, including the stockade, grounds, powder magazine and blacksmith/carpenter shop.

Music  –  1:45 pm

There will be a cannon firing at 2 p.m. all 3 days.

Nebraska park permit required.

Fort Kearny was a historic outpost of the United States Army founded in 1848 in the Western United States during the middle and late 19th century. The fort was named after Colonel and later General Stephen Watts Kearny. The outpost was located along the Oregon Trail near Kearney, Nebraska.