RED-WHITE-AND-BLUE FESTIVITIES: Thursday, July 4

Experience star-spangled history festivities at Pioneer Farms on Thursday, July 4, featuring cannon firings, live music, 19th century games and red-white-and-blue festivities in the town square including a lemonade-making activity for visitors and old-fashioned ice cream churning.

Admission $10 a person, free for Members.

The special event will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., to beat the Texas summer heat!

Noted Cowboy Crooner Jesse White will be featured in a special Independence Day performance that will continue throughout the event in our Sprinkle Corner Village, along with lemonade-squeezing and ice cream-making demonstrations — just like in 1800s Texas. Our new Telegraph Station and Post Office exhibit will also be open for viewing.

There will also be artisans and pioneering demonstrations at our 1800s history sites — including sneak previews of our ongoing reconstruction of the 1890s Dodson Farm House, home to one of Texas’ Freedom Colony leaders after the Civil War, and the just-restored 1850s Stone Blockhouse, once used to repel attacks from frontier marauders.

The day will be Austin’s version of a midsummer festival, a popular activity in the late 1800s.

The event is sponsored by our friends at Big Red Soda and 7Up.

Click on the photo below to buy advance tickets for this exclusive event, up until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3. After that, tickets can be purchased in the General Store at our entrance gate. Please note: No refunds on advance ticket sales. All tickets sales are final. No exceptions. No dogs or other pets are allowed, unless they are legal service dogs.