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Fort Toulouse
On this trip, students were engaged by period performers acting parts of nobility and laymen in Alabama and the southeast between 1700 and 1812. Students moved from station to station in small groups learning about different aspects of life for various people. At the Indian camps students learned about tribe life, rituals, bow and arrow hunting, blow guns, cooking, storing food, and trading with the French and British. They also learned how Indian societies formed and functioned daily.
In the French encampment area, students witnessed first hand as a teacher was taken captive by the French Army and attempted to be traded to the Indians. They saw how muskets were loaded and fired, how canons worked, how officers lived, what laymen might have held jobs as, and how troops survived daily. Students were able to walk up and ask questions of different participants and touch and feel clothing, felts, furs, and artifacts from that period.
In the 1812 section students saw how children might have looked and played at the turn of the century. Some student took a horse and cart ride while others pet Shetland ponies, pigs, rabbits, and sheep. A washer woman explained how clothes were handmade and darned while a seamstress showed us how wool was dyed and spun. A mere two feet in front of the students a man created fire from flint and steel then showed us how to melt metal for shot. A third man displayed tools used to create bullets with shot and gunpowder and then students held their ears as more men demonstrated rifles of the time. A doctor then used his tools and a dummy to show how amputations would have been done at that time if someone were hit with a bullet.
Finally, musicians and actors strolled through the park and students asked questions and listened to them intently. They witnessed a bagpipe player, glass players, and a lute player. Over on Trader’s Row students could make purchases of real or replica artifacts and items from this time. Groups enjoyed home brewed root beer, rock candy, and Indian stew and they stood alongside the performance stage and interacted with puppet masters, magicians, and sword sallower. Finally, students concluded their day by viewing artifacts actually excavated from the fort that were over 300 years old.
The vocabulary words that were tied to this trip:
Link to Fort Toulouse site: Fort Toulouse, Wetumpka, Alabama
In the French encampment area, students witnessed first hand as a teacher was taken captive by the French Army and attempted to be traded to the Indians. They saw how muskets were loaded and fired, how canons worked, how officers lived, what laymen might have held jobs as, and how troops survived daily. Students were able to walk up and ask questions of different participants and touch and feel clothing, felts, furs, and artifacts from that period.
In the 1812 section students saw how children might have looked and played at the turn of the century. Some student took a horse and cart ride while others pet Shetland ponies, pigs, rabbits, and sheep. A washer woman explained how clothes were handmade and darned while a seamstress showed us how wool was dyed and spun. A mere two feet in front of the students a man created fire from flint and steel then showed us how to melt metal for shot. A third man displayed tools used to create bullets with shot and gunpowder and then students held their ears as more men demonstrated rifles of the time. A doctor then used his tools and a dummy to show how amputations would have been done at that time if someone were hit with a bullet.
Finally, musicians and actors strolled through the park and students asked questions and listened to them intently. They witnessed a bagpipe player, glass players, and a lute player. Over on Trader’s Row students could make purchases of real or replica artifacts and items from this time. Groups enjoyed home brewed root beer, rock candy, and Indian stew and they stood alongside the performance stage and interacted with puppet masters, magicians, and sword sallower. Finally, students concluded their day by viewing artifacts actually excavated from the fort that were over 300 years old.
The vocabulary words that were tied to this trip:
- blacksmith – a metal worker who creates items with iron
- hide – the skin of an animal
- artifact - an object remaining from a particular period
- amputation – to remove by cutting / to remove from the body
- trade - an exchange of property usually without use of money
- fort – a permanent army post
- encampment – the place where a group or body of troops is stationed
- wool – the thick undercoat of sheep used to make yarn and fabric
- Creek Indians – Groups of Indian tribes that were united in Alabama and across the Southeast United States
- frontier – an area that is the boundary of developed land; unknown or unexplored area.
Link to Fort Toulouse site: Fort Toulouse, Wetumpka, Alabama
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