Sauder Village
22611 St. Rt. 2
Archbold, Ohio 43502
In Northwest Ohio

1-800-590-9755


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As a destination of choice, Sauder Village offers guests experiences rich in history, hospitality, creativity & fun.
 

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  2011  


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June | July | August
September | October | November | December
   

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Every year, in addition to the usual excitement here, the Village plays host to a number of exhibitions and festivals showcasing artists' crafts, music and other entertainment. Keep an eye on this page to make sure you don't miss out on anything. Admission to the living-history Village includes all the special events below. Come often by becoming a member!

Be sure to check this page often for more details!
 

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Winter Family Picnics at Sauder Village
Dates: To Be Announced

The public is invited to gather with others from the community to enjoy a meal in the comfort of Founder’s Hall. A hearty meal will be available for a free will donation. Carry-out meals will also be available. Proceeds from the “Winter Family Picnics” will help support the special projects of community partners as well as non-profit Historic Sauder Village.

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Toledo Symphony
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Toledo Symphony will present a spectacular performance in Founder’s Hall with Jeffrey Pollock as conductor. The Black Swamp Arts Council is joining Sauder Village to co-host this year’s performance. All seats are reserved and tickets will go on sale in late January 2011.

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Sauder Village Bridal Show
Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011
Time: 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. in Founder's Hall
Admission Cost:
$7.00 at the door or Register Online and receive a money-saving coupon!Sauder Village Bridal Show
Parking: Free

Experience an afternoon of elegance and romance as you visit with wedding professionals showcasing every resource a bride will need to plan the wedding of her dreams! From the wedding dress and flowers to decorations, food and photos – attending the Sauder Village Bridal Show will provide an afternoon of information and inspiration.

Visit our Bridal Show page for more information, to enter our Grand Prize drawing, or for exhibitor information!

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35th Annual Quilt Show & Workshops
Date: Tuesday, April 26 – Sunday, May 1, 2011
Time: Tuesday – Friday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Each year the Sauder Village Quilt Show pays tribute to the fine craftsmanship of quilters from across the Midwest. During this 6-day show more than 400 breath-taking quilts will be on full-length display, creating a kaleidoscope of color and pattern in Founder’s Hall. Guests will also enjoy special music, quilting demonstrations and shopping and will have an opportunity to meet and learn from special guest artist Nancy Prince from Orlando, FL. Workshops available – watch here for information.


Members' Only Night at Quilt
Show
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Can't make it to the Quilt Show during the day? Join us for an exclusive viewing of this breathtaking show. This special evening is only open to Sauder Village Members.

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Spring on the Farm 
Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to welcome spring on a farm 100 years ago? Enjoy a day of fun together with your children or grandchildren seeing baby animals, playing old-fashioned games, watching sheep shearing or planting a sunflower the garden. During this hands-on day of fun you can also experience horseradish grating, window washing, rope making, wigwam building and more!

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Antique Car Gathering
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

What better setting for an antique car display than Ohio’s largest living-history Village. Cars on display will be older than 1942 with some dating back to the early 1900s. Antique car enthusiasts from the tri-state area will be gathering to share their love of antique automobiles and offer unique demonstrations for guests of all ages to enjoy.

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"Tee it Up for Education" Golf Tournament
Date:
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Time & Admission Cost: Call 419.446.2541 or 800.590.9755 for details

Join us for a fun morning of golf at Riverside Greens in Stryker or serve as a sponsor of this event. Proceeds help fund many educational programs at Sauder Village.

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Gospel Music Concert
Date: Saturday, June 11, 2011
Time: Concert at 1:00 pm, Historic Village Open 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

The sounds of beautiful gospel music will fill the air as talented groups take the stage in Founder's Hall for the annual Gospel Music Concert.

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Dairy Days
Date: Tuesday - Saturday, June 14 - 18, 2011
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

June is National Dairy Month – a time to celebrate America’s great bounty of dairy products, the important role these products play in our diet and the dairy farmers who help bring them to our table. Through special demonstrations and hands-on activities, guests will have an opportunity to better understand the role dairy plays in their lives today and in the lives of the early pioneers.

Activities will vary from day-to-day. Some of the special dairy demonstrations planned for the week-long celebration include making buttermilk biscuits, buttermilk pie, bread pudding and schmearcase, which is like cottage cheese. Costumed guides will be making buttermilk salad, cheese pie, ice cream and homemade cheese. Guests will be able to try their hand at making butter, rolling out homemade biscuits, and hand-cranking the ice cream. There will also be historic recipes for guests to pick up and try at home.

And a visit to the Village would not be complete without a dairy treat from the old-time Ice Cream Parlor in the Historic Village. Be sure to stop by for a single or double dip cone or a tasty sundae all featuring Homestead Ice Cream – made locally in Archbold, Ohio!
 

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Tractors, Tractors, Tractors
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

This unique event will focus on the machines past and present that make farming possible. We will have modern machines as well as antique models on display. Guests will have a chance to actually get into them and also see antique models ride next to their modern cousins. Also this day, lots of hands on activities such as butter churning and cream separating plus special cooking demonstrations to focus on the importance of dairy farming in our early settlement.

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Focus on Fiber Arts
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Have you ever wondered how a sheep’s wool was transformed into your favorite sweater or warm wooly mittens? Join us as artisans gather to demonstrate and share their love of fiber arts. Many fiber arts groups will join Sauder Village spinners and weavers in demonstrations on spinning and different types of weaving, natural dyeing of fibers and other similar activities. Guests will be able to watch spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting and tatting demonstrations. There will be fiber exhibits, looms and spinning wheels on display, hands-on activities and wool felting and dying demonstrations. Join us for an in-depth look at the world of fiber arts at Sauder Village.

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Old-Fashioned 4th of July
Date: Saturday, July 2 - Monday, July 4, 2011
Time: Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm; Sunday 12:00 – 4:00 pm; Monday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

What better place to celebrate Independence Day than at Ohio's largest living-history village! Join us for a weekend filled with special activities from hand-cranked ice cream and old-fashioned games, to a reading of the Declaration of Independence and patriotic songs being played on the reed organ. On Monday, July 4, Sauder Village will host a U.S. District Court Naturalization Ceremony, the last step in the process to become a new United States citizen, on the Village Green (weather permitting). Bring the whole family for this fun-filled and memorable event!

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Fiddle Contest
Date: Saturday, July 9, 2011

Join us in Founder’s Hall, as seats will be filling by 12:30 as a guest performer takes the stage followed by the toe-tapping youth fiddle competition and finally some of the best adult fiddlers in the tri-state region.

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Summer on the Farm
Date: Saturday, July 9, 2011
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm


Children today are often generations removed from life on the farm. This fun-filled day allows guests to experience life on a farm more than 100 year ago! Favorite activities include everything from making ice cream, butter and rope to participating in a spelling bee, washing clothes on a scrub board and watch picking feathers from a goose.

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Preserving Our Memories
Date: Friday & Saturday, July 15 & 16, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Join us for Preserving Our Memories and learn lots of fun, easy and exciting ways to preserve and tell your family stories. Guests will learn how memories are preserved at Historic Sauder Village as well as how they can preserve their own family memories at home! Different demonstrations will be offered each day. From scrapbooking to photo quilts and digital photo books, come learn how to preserve your memories during this unique event.

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Explore the Crafts
Date: Friday & Saturday, July 22 & 23, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Everyday at Sauder Village guests watch in amazement as our potter skillfully turns a lump of clay into a beautiful vase, the cooper creates a wooden bucket or the blacksmith hammers hot iron to make a candlestick. During this event guests are encouraged to take that experience one step further as they try weaving, woodworking, pottery, basket making, spinning, sewing, tinsmithing and more!

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Vintage Base Ball Day
Date:
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

New this year... Join us for our first Sauder Village Vintage Base Ball Invitational! Watch as the Great Black Swamp Frogs from Toledo and the Ohio Village Muffins of Columbus, along with the Spiegel Grove Squires from Fremont take the field for a vintage base ball game tournament using rules from the late 19th century and wearing period uniforms. After the games, youngsters from the audience will be encouraged to try hitting the ball and running bases!
 

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28th Annual Doll & Teddy Bear Show & Sale 
Date: Saturday & Sunday, August 6 & 7, 2011
Time: Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm and Sunday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Doll lovers and collectors will enjoy browsing in Founder’s Hall as exhibitors share their antique dolls, original dolls, teddy bears, and modern collectibles as well as accessories, supplies, artist reproductions, clothing, doll furniture, books and patterns. A special guest artist will be at the Village for the weekend to sign dolls and talk with collectors. There will be workshops, lectures and other doll-themed activities throughout the weekend.

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Rug Hooking Retreat
& Workshops
Date: Monday – Friday, August 15 – 19, 2011
Parking: Free 

15th Annual Rug Hooking Exhibition
Date: Wednesday, August 17 – Saturday, August 20, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Recognized as one of the best exhibits of traditional hooked rugs in the country, the 2010 Sauder Village Rug Hooking event promises to be the best ever! Highlights include hundreds of additional rugs on display, a featured guest teacher, rug hooking demonstrations, workshops and vendor booths. Workshop and Retreat details available November 2010.

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Barbershop Sing
Date:
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Time: Historic Village: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm; Concert: 1:00 pm

Barbershop Music and baseball are two American originals that are fun for all ages to enjoy! A special barbershop group will delight crowds with the sweet sounds of their barbershop harmony. One performance will be held in Founder's Hall at 1:00 pm.
 

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Home School Appreciation Days
Date: Tuesdays - Fridays, September 6 - 9 & 13 - 16, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Admission Cost: Reservations Required - Call for details and special admission costs
Parking: Free

Connect your children to local history! We invite all Home School families to join us for our Home School Appreciation Days at Sauder Village. Pre-register for your day which includes a special program, admission to the Historic Village and special offers. While you’re here, visit the Historic Village including Pioneer Settlement and much more!


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Celebrate Our Artisans
Date: Tuesday, September 13 – Saturday, September 17, 2011
Time: Tues. - Fri. 10:00 am – 3:30 pm,  Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

From traditional trades like spinning and weaving, to our continuing trades like pottery, glass blowing and blacksmithing... come celebrate the craftspeople and artisans that make Sauder Village such a great place! There will be special demonstrations in the shops, drawings held to win hand-crafted items and lots of fun! 

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35th Annual Apple Butter Making
Date:
Wednseday, September 21 – Saturday, September 24, 2011
Time: Tues. - Fri. 10:00 am – 3:30 pm,  Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

The aroma of apples and spices mixed with wood fires and falling leaves signals a change of season ad apple butter making at Sauder Village. For the 34th consecutive year, guests can watch as we boil the cider down, add the thinly sliced apples and then cook the homemade apple butter in copper kettles over an open fire. There will be cider pressing and other apple-themed activities as well as homemade apple dumplings, pies and other treats to enjoy!

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“All Aboard” Train Event
Date:
Saturday & Sunday, October 1 & 2, 2011
Time: Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm and Sunday 12:00 - 4:00 pm

Model trains seem to bring out the kid in all of us. As we watch the trains go ‘round the tracks, through the tunnels, over a bridge and past the tiny little homes, barns and landscapes... we can’t help but smile. Again this fall, the Swanton Area Railroad and Model Club will have a variety of model trains set-up in the Festival Barn and there will be a garden-scale train display in the Museum Building.
 

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Fall on the Farm & Scout Day
Date:
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Family fun awaits visitors young and old as Sauder Village celebrates Fall on the Farm! Guests will have the opportunity to take a step back in time and help prepare the farm for the winter ahead. From making noodles, butter and cornhusk dolls to decorating pumpkins, pressing apples for cider, exploring a straw tunnel and harvesting sunflower seeds and vegetables from the garden... there are special activities for all ages to enjoy. Based on century old liturgy, a Harvest Home Service will be recreated in St. Mark’s Church with short services throughout the day.

Scout Day
In honor of our local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts with the the purchase of an adult admission, Girl or Boy Scouts get in free this special day. (Scout must be in uniform or present their Scout card. Group rates are also available).

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Community Health Day
Date:
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Join us for our third annual Community Health Day at Sauder Village. Many regional health care providers and service organizations will be on hand to share information to help you and your family get fit and stay healthy! Partners include: Fulton County Health Department, The Fulton County Police Departments and Sheriff's Office, the Fulton County Fire Departments, The American Red Cross, The Ohio Farm Bureau, The Fulton County Health Center, the Community Health Professionals, Fulton County EMA and EMS and more! From simple first aid, bike safety, farm safety and emergency preparedness, you'll get all your questions answered! PLUS the Fulton County Fire Departments and Rescue squads will have our parking lot full of fire and rescue vehicles.

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25th Annual Woodcarvers’ Show & Sale and Butchering Day
Date:
Saturday, October 29 & Sunday, October 30, 2011
Time: Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm  and  Sunday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

The annual Woodcarvers’ Show & Sale is a special weekend filled with unique artistry and family fun. Founder’s Hall will feature skilled carvers showcasing handcrafted wildlife, fish, caricatures, Santas, pins and pens. A special guest carver will be demonstrating and teaching a workshop. There will be vendor tables with carving supplies and woodcarving demonstrations. Watch here for workshop information!

On Saturday only in the Historic Village we will be demonstrating how the early settlers prepared for winter with hog butchering and other food preservation demonstrations. In the afternoon guests of all ages can participate in our popular corn husking contest.

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Holiday Lantern Tours... at Sauder Village (By Reservation Only)
Date: Saturday, November 26; Saturday, December 3; Friday , December 9; Saturday, December 10, 2011
Time: Tours last roughly 90 minutes and will be repeated every half hour from 4:00 – 8:30 pm
This is a by-reservation-only event... watch here for details!


Come join us for this special holiday experience... an opportunity to experience a turn-of-the-century Christmas at Sauder Village! The flicker of a candle-lit lantern will light the way as our costumed interpreter, through a personalized, guided lantern tour, takes small groups on a journey to meet historical characters in the 1910 Homestead, the District 16 Schoolhouse, Villages' St. Mark's Church and the Train Depot. Guests will be invited to experience the holiday customs and celebrations of the 1900s in Northwest Ohio as along the way, your guide will share stories about Christmas' past and the history of Northwest Ohio. Participants will also "meet" people from the past as part of the program. Because this is a personalized guided tour, guests will be encouraged to ask questions and interact with their guide. At the church, all will join in a hymn sing and receive a special gift appropriate to the late 1800s. We hope you will join us for this new holiday experience at Sauder Village. Pre-registration and pre-payment is required. Call 800.590.9755 for more details.

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