Dover, Tennessee – Visitors young and old will have the opportunity to work with period interpreters to learn and experience the role and importance of 19th century gardening – as food and medicine.
The program, entitled “Gardening and Home Chores of the Nineteenth Century,” will be offered on Saturday, June 16, at the historic Dover Hotel (Park Tour Stop #10) of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield. The hotel is located at 101 Petty Street in Dover.
Offered between 10 am – 2 pm, presentations will tell about work in the household and gardens of the nineteenth century; specific tasks, and what undertakings were traditionally regarded as the role for women in the management of a household.
Youth will have the opportunity to work with park volunteers during interactive demonstrations and challenges relating to traditional activities of the period. Junior Ranger badges and patches will be offered to youth that complete the activities.
Historically, both farm families and city-dwellers of nineteenth-century America typically kept small kitchen gardens near their home. Often, it was the responsibility of women and youngsters to help with the gardening and in the cultivating of flowers, herbs, and vegetables for not only fragrance, bouquets or cooking – but also for health purposes, and homeopathic “remedies.”
For more information, please visit the Fort Donelson Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/fortdonelsonnps, or by calling Ranger staff at 931-305-1001
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