River Raisin International Fife & Drum Muster

June 20 & 21, 2008

Monroe, Michigan

Featuring Corps from the Midwest and Canada

This year's featured Corps will be the

Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum
From
Williamsburg Virginia

The Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps will perform in

Loranger Square Downtown Monroe at 7pm on Friday June 20, 2008.

Joining them will be the 1st Michigan Colonial Fife and Drum Corps.

This will be a site to behold in Historic Downtown Monroe!

 On Saturday, 10 Fife and Drum Corps units will be present at the Muster
 on the corner of East Elm and North Dixie Hwy, the Battlefield site.

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Fur Trade Day

Navarre-Anderson Trading Post

April 26, 2008
10:00am - 4:00pm

Experience the 1790's fur trade in person;

Listen in as preparations are made for a fur trade expedition

Visit with Native Americans as they come to trade

Help scrape deerskins

Find out if you have what it takes to be a voyageur

Enjoy the aroma of food cooked over a open woodfire

Watch a musket firing demonstration

Navarre-Anderson Trading Post
3775 North Custer Rd
Monroe MI 48162

At the North East Corner
of Raisinville Road

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Battlefield Commemoration 2008

January 26th, 2008

Held at the River Raisin Battlefield
Monroe Michigan
1403 East Elm Ave
Monroe Mi, 48162

Join the many participants from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Canada, along with Native Americans and residents of Monroe Michigan as we remember this bloody battle and massacre that took place on January 22nd and 23rd, 1813.

The commemoration is held on the very ground along the River Raisin where hundreds of lives were lost protecting our freedom in the early years of the United States.