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May Faire
Come celebrate the end of Winter at Historic Smithville Park in Eastampton, NJ.
On Sunday, May 15, we will be "Bringing in the May" and celebrating the storied history of Hezekiah & Agnes Smith and the Smithville Mansion with a free event for the whole family.
Built in 1840, the mansion is the former home of Hezekiah B. Smith, an inventor, entrepreneur and politician who founded the company town of Smithville in the late 1800s, an international center for the production of woodworking machinery and the Star Bicycle.
There will be live music and fun for everyone, with a historic twist:
- Live Music
- Theatrical Melodramas
- Storytelling and Face Painting in our Boxwood Garden Maze & Fairy Glen
- Meet Hezekiah & Agnes
- Historic Arts & Crafts Demonstrations; Blacksmith, Tintype Photography, Basket Weaving
- Tours of the Historic Smithville Mansion ($5 additional benefitting the Friends of the Mansion at Smithville) and tours of the grounds (free)
- The New Jersey Wheelmen will be displaying their vintage bicycles
- Horse & Carriage rides
- Vintage Exhibition Baseball Game between the Athletic Baseball Club of Philadelphia and the new reassembled Smithville Baseball Team
- Carnival games and prizes and kids craft activities
- Arts & Crafts Marketplace
- History groups from all over Burlington County
- Foodies bring your appetites; we’ll have Food Trucks!
