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 Union County Historical Society - Marketplace Festival

7th Annual
Mountain Marketplace Heritage Festival
 sponsored by the Union County Historical Society

Free and open to the public, this community event will be held Saturday - Sunday, August 30 & 31, Labor Day weekend, 2008 10 a.m. to 5 p.m , at the Mountain Life Museum just one block south of the Historic Court House on the square. The Labor Day weekend event is kindly underwritten by United Community Bank to honor its home county.

Mountain handcrafts, music, food, and other traditions of the north Georgia mountains are in store for Saturday - Sunday of Labor Day weekend in downtown Blairsville, Georgia. Free and open to the public, this heritage event celebrates the rich Appalachian history and culture of our mountain community.


A community outreach event of the Union County Historical Society, the event is kindly underwritten by United Community Bank. The Labor Day weekend "Mountain Marketplace Heritage Festival" celebrates the cultural heritage of the north Georgia mountains.


This open-air market will feature locally produced handcrafts, traditional foods, and garden products along with music, craft demonstrations, "old ways" and live animals. Members of pioneer families will be on hand to share their colorful memories of Union County's history.


Festival vendors

Festival Vendors at the Society's Heritage Center

Cabin

1861 Payne Cabin
Basketweaving, cooking, farm animals, shingle splitting,
gold panning and much more!

See Photo Slideshow of Marketplace and Heritage Festival - 2005

See Photo Slideshow of Marketplace and Heritage Festival - 2006

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Mountain music, arts and crafts, and living history activities are featured at the Marketplace, to keep the area’s rich mountain heritage alive. It’s a fun-filled family event, with something for all ages. Some of the highlights of the Labor Day weekend event are:
1. all-day musical performances coordinated by Sam Ensley;
2. high quality Appalachian crafts, from basketry to pottery to woodcrafts;
3. traditional foods such as homemade preserves;
4. living history around the Civil War-era log cabin, including soldiers in period costume;
5. old-time cast-iron cooking over an open fire;
6. family activities from farm animals to gold-panning; and
7. descendants of pioneer families on hand to answer your questions about local history.

Everyone is invited and encouraged to join in these heritage festivities Labor Day weekend. Mountain Marketplace at the Union County Heritage Center, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Blairsville. Music, spinning, quilting, campfire cooking, gold-panning, mountain crafts.


Every Labor Day weekend, the Mountain Marketplace Heritage Festival celebrates the history and mountain culture of Union County in downtown Blairsville, Georgia.


Union County Historical Society of Georgia, Copyright 2006