House in the Horseshoe 2013 Re-enactment
This is a video of high-lights of a re-enactment of the July 1781 skirmish between Whig and Tory troops at the House in the Horseshoe. The House in the Horseshoe is located in present day Moore County, North Carolina, and it was the site of a Revolutionary War era frontier plantation.
The re-enactment took place in 2013. It includes footage of troops re-enacting aspects of the skirmish, including the effort of Fanning's troops to launch a burning haywagon into the Alston home and the moment when Temperance Alston, wife of Philip Alston, emerged from the home to negotiate a surrender in order to protect her children. The video includes scenes from daily life, with re-enactors engaged in everyday activities such as cooking. The video also includes the reactions and perspectives of the visitors as they experienced the living history demonstrations.
The video was created by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The House in the Horseshoe is a North Carolina state historic site, part of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. "House in the Horseshoe 2013 Annual Re-enactment." 2013. YouTube video, 6:49. Posted 2014. https://youtu.be/WfadSdEMipQ
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here we're at the Houston a horseshoe
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which was a militia battle involving
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Philip halston
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and the loyalist David Fanning we're
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recreating a 1781 skirmish between
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pro-independence and pro crown militia
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at house and horseshoe which the only
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Revolutionary War battlefield property
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that the state of North Carolina owns
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the unique aspects of the house and the
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horseshoe is simply this it is an
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original building from that period and
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this is a unique facility simply because
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it's still here and that's a it's a gem
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in our historical realm that we have
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here in North Carolina today we hosted
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our 34th annual Revolutionary War battle
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reenactment and it was a very good
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success
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small-arms musket demonstration first
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thing in the morning and we had periodic
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eighteenth-century
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cannon firings and drill through the
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afternoon so tell me about the camp
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every time you use the cannon you have
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to like put like different things in it
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so you could to make sure that it's safe
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it's awfully loud I think my favorite
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part is probably just seeing the
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reenactors and how they're in character
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the history aspect of it being able to
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interact with the volunteers
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it gave us a real big taste of what life
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was like for people at that time just
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I've learned so much between the British
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and camp men's the house the bullets in
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the house yeah I like learning history
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this way versus sitting in a classroom
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reading it learning it out of a book I
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get more out of this you learn more you
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think we just go to the grocery store
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and buy yarn or material and stuff and
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here would take them you know multiple
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days just prepare the thread before they
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can either use it to make the clothing
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the crowd is a little bit different
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there's they're more hands-on for the
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crowd here than they are at some of the
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other place
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and I think just the whole battle itself
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is a big draw his daddy and I met here
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and started dating here and two years
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ago we got married here so he thought it
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was right for Quinn to do his first
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reenactment he had to stay the night
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last night he'll stay the night again
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tonight and so far he's done really good
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I've been here before and I love always
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seeing how they used to camp back then I
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love camping and so it's it's really
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quite primitive and I look forward to
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seeing the barrel
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the party was exhausting he's outside
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waiting to light a profession to get
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famous attention he admired her bravery
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and degrees we do it because history is
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important
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not enough of the younger folks get to
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actually participate and our learns I
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believe it's important to keep America's
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history alive
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I've been re-enacting since I was 11 or
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so I think it's just a wonderful way to
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kind of capture not like the facts of
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history but the spirit of it like how
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things look how things felt just the
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general atmosphere which I think is an
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important part of understanding what
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went on we have a number of schools that
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participate in their history especially
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when it comes to North Carolina history
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and there's a consistent program set up
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here there was several campsites open
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loyalists and Patriots deaf people are
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able to wander through and engage with
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re-enactors and learn about what camp
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life was like what the militia life was
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like and there were also several sutlers
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here on the site that were selling their
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wares there are children clothing the
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herbs and colonial cooking even jewelry
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and the children you can look at a book
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you can look at a picture but to capture
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the essence of the historical aspect of
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this place you're here and it's an
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impacted they always remain re-enactors
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definitely come from as far away parts
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in Virginia they come from South
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Carolina a lot of them also from here in
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the state it's it's a long haul for some
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of them and they come and they camp for
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the weekend I believe one of the
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southeastern tourist entities made an
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evaluation and this is one of the top
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ten sites in North Carolina to visit
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this was the best attended event that I
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can remember in five years we also had a
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good showing of supporters who have been
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here throughout the possible closure of
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the site we've been able to sustain the
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operation of house in the horseshoe we
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will continue to operate it on a regular
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schedule to the public it's an extremely
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valuable
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colonial revolutionary and backcountry
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resource that the public have a right to
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see and experience
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