FREE FUN FOR ALL AGES
Activities throughout the Park!
Attend this FREE, family-friendly event to immerse yourself in local history!
Event Details:
- When: Saturday, March 1, 2025 from 10 AM – 1 PM
- Where: 515 10th Ave W, Palmetto, FL, 34221
- Who: All ages welcome
- No reservations required!
- Food will be available for purchase from Word of Mouth BBQ.
Activities Available:
- Send mail from our 1880 Heritage Station Post Office!
- This historic post office will be operational with a ONE-DAY-ONLY cancellation stamp designed by a local student artist. Bring your stamped mail to send or write a letter and buy a stamp on-site.
- Tour all 7 on-site buildings in a historic open house.
- Buildings include a historic Carnegie library, post office, schoolhouse, cottage, church, military museum, and agricultural museum.
- Take a guided tour! Guided tours will be available at 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 12:30 PM.
- Palmetto Historical Park’s regular 2 PM tour will not be available.
- Complete heritage crafts and activities that are fun for visitors of all ages.
- Experience how early pioneers washed laundry, made butter, and how they dressed.
- Take home your handmade crafts.
- Talk with local outreach organizations who will be positioned throughout the park with information and activities.
This event is sponsored by Angelina “Angel” Colonneso – Manatee County Clerk of the Circuit Court, Friends of Manatee County Agricultural Museum, Palmetto Historical Commission, and City of Palmetto.
