8th Annual Historic Silver Falls Days at Silver Falls State Park

When:
July 8, 2017 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
2017-07-08T10:00:00-07:00
2017-07-08T16:00:00-07:00
Where:
Silver Falls State Park
20024 Silver Falls Hwy SE, Sublimity, OR 97385
USA

aturday, July 8
There will be Model T and Model A antique cars; demonstrations of antique logging tools; flint knapping; spinning wheel demonstrations; families participating in old-fashioned games; story telling of historic days in the area; and a farrier will demonstrate making horse shoes and other iron work.

Area historical societies will have displays in the historic Silver Falls Lodge. The Forest History Center will have a display of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) artifacts and a list of thousands of names of the 80,000 men who served in the CCC in Oregon.

A miniature canoe race Saturday will celebrate Al Faussett’s 1928 canoe trip over the South Falls. First, second and third place finishes will receive prizes.

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