{"id":23152,"date":"2016-09-09T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=23152"},"modified":"2016-09-09T02:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:23:07","slug":"clarksvilles-fort-defiance-to-host-pre-civil-war-event-sevier-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/09\/clarksvilles-fort-defiance-to-host-pre-civil-war-event-sevier-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville\u2019s Fort Defiance to host pre-Civil War event, \u201cSevier Days\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-299103\" title=\"Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Clarksville-Parks-and-Recreation-Department.jpg\" alt=\"Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department\" width=\"240\" height=\"96\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> \u2013 The City of Clarksville\u2019s Fort Defiance Interpretive Center, located at 120 Duncan Street, is excited to present \u201cSevier Days,\u201d an 18th century, pre-Civil War event from 9:00am to 1:00pm on Friday, September 16th and 10:00am to 3:00pm on Saturday, September 17th, 2016.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_357404\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Flintlock-musket-firing-demonstration-at-Clarksvilles-Fort-Defiance.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357404\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-357404\" title=\"Flintlock musket firing demonstrations to be held at Fort Defiance on September 16th.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Flintlock-musket-firing-demonstration-at-Clarksvilles-Fort-Defiance-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Flintlock musket firing demonstrations to be held at Fort Defiance on September 16th.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-357404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flintlock musket firing demonstrations to be held at Fort Defiance on September 16th.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This two-day event will focus on the historical frontier and colonial period of Clarksville and will feature reenactors, flintlock musket firing demonstrations, a flint knapper making Indian arrowheads, an authentic blacksmith operation and a frontier camp.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss the reenactment of the conflict between frontiersmen Valentine Sevier and Chickamauga Chief, Doublehead.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<h3>About Fort Defiance<\/h3>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Fort-Defiance-Civil-War-Park.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-104620\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-104620\" title=\"Fort Defiance Civil War Park &amp; Interpretive Center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Fort-Defiance-Civil-War-Park-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Defiance Civil War Park &amp; Interpretive Center\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Fort Defiance, which overlooks the confluence of the Red and Cumberland Rivers, was a cornerstone of the Confederate defense of the area and an important part of the eventual Union occupation of Clarksville. In 1982, Judge and Mrs. Sam Boaz, donated the property to the City of Clarksville.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, the City secured a $2.2 million federal grant that was combined with local funding and the process of construction of the interpretive center and walking trails began. The more than 1,500-square-foot Center features exhibits about the local area and the fort during the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Defiance Interpretive Center is open Monday-Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm and Sunday, 1:00pm to 4:00pm during the Fall &amp; Winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN \u2013 The City of Clarksville\u2019s Fort Defiance Interpretive Center, located at 120 Duncan Street, is excited to present \u201cSevier Days,\u201d an 18th century, pre-Civil War event from 9:00am to 1:00pm on Friday, September 16th and 10:00am to 3:00pm on Saturday, September 17th, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[20574,13255,250,1485,878,881,19413,29087,7178,1482,5533,27417,20509,24330],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-61q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23153,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152\/revisions\/23153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}