New Netherland Marketplace: A Living History Event 2025

Saturday June 28th, 2025 10:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sunday June 29th, 2025 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Historic Huguenot Street is excited to announce the 4th annual New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event. Throughout this event, visitors will discover Lenape Delaware, Black, and European demonstrators sharing their craftsmanship and culture, and portraying life in mid-17th century New Netherland. This year’s weekend-long event will be taking place on Saturday, June 28th, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, and on Sunday, June 29th, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.  

Members of the federally recognized Lenape Delaware communities, which currently reside in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario, will be returning to their sacred homelands to portray the life of their ancestors and their economic relationship with the European settlers. Their camp will have ongoing open fire cooking, cordage making, bow shooting, flintknapping, arrow making, and hide tanning demonstrations throughout the weekend. Each day, representatives will offer a cultural stomp dance demonstration, in which visitor participation is encouraged. North American Dingos, also known as the Carolina dog, will be present and used to discuss Eastern Woodland hunting traditions and more.

Living historians portraying European merchants, performers, and craftspeople will offer demonstrations on wood working, hearth cooking, tailoring, wampum making, spinning wool, and more. This year’s marketplace will include displays of camp gear and furs, clothing, wooden bowls, children’s toys, and other items for sale. Musicians will regularly perform to crowds and, just like years past, children and adults alike will line up to enjoy a classic Dutch folktale via a raree show, an exhibition of pictures and objects viewed through a small hole in a box. Scheduled programming will include demonstrations on 17th century martial arts and cutlass fighting, a quack show, and a portrayal of Adriaen van der Donck, alongside an American Indian companion.

Members of the group Inalienable Rights, the Living History arm of The Slave Dwelling Project, will present the lives and histories of some of the colony’s first enslaved people. Presenters will offer African storytelling, artisan demonstrations, open fire cooking, and more as they convey the significant contributions that the enslaved brought to the early colony, amidst the brutal conditions and horrors they faced, daily.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is highly encouraged and appreciated.

Guided Historic House Tours

Register for a Guided Historic House Tour during the New Netherland Marketplace event.

Historic House Tours are available at 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM, and 2:30 PM on Saturday, June 28th and Sunday, June 29th. Tours last approximately one hour and guide attendees through the Esopus Munsee replica wigwam, the European community's original burying ground, the reconstructed 1717 French Church, and the 1721 Jean Hasbrouck House. 

General Admission: $15

Discounted Admission (for HHS members, seniors, students and children under 13): $12

Free Admission for veterans, active military members and their families, SUNY New Paltz Students and Children 6 and under.

Note: This link is for all guided tours throughout the week of June 25th-June 29th. To take a tour during this event, choose a tour time on either June 28th or June 29th.

Schedule of Events

Coming Soon!

Meet the Reenactors

Click on the image below to read each reenactor’s biography.

event Information and Visitor Policies

This event will portray and interpret historical topics such as colonialism, slavery, racial discrimination, weaponry, and martial arts in the 17th century. Parental supervision is required for children under 13. 

Please note that live sheep will be present, fenced, and supervised by handlers. Appropriate vaccination records have been submitted to HHS.

Additionally, canine companions will be used as a part of the interpretation of Indigenous culture throughout this event. Two North American Dingos, also known as the Carolina dog, will be present and used to talk about Eastern Woodland hunting traditions and more. These dogs will be leashed at all times and proof of appropriate vaccinations have been submitted to HHS.

If you intend on bringing your own dog to this event, they must also remained leashed at all times. Any person who owns or controls a dog, must remove any feces left by that dog on HHS property and dispose of it in a legal manner. The person must remove the feces and carry them away with him/her for disposal. Inability to abide by these policies could result in a fine.

Photography is allowed on the grounds and in the historic structures. However, no flash photography is allowed in the historic structures. Food and beverage are not allowed on tours of the historic houses. Visitors may not consume food prepared by the event’s demonstrators. Please do not touch, sit, or lean on anything in the historic houses, unless you are explicitly told you may do so. Please do not touch, sit, or lean on any of the reenactors’ props or personal items unless you are explicitly told you may do so.

Historic Huguenot Street grounds are open from dawn to dusk.

If you have any questions about the event, the historic house tours, or the site's accessibility, please feel free to email info@huguenotstreet.org

HHS Site Map and Parking

Public parking is available in the lots labeled with a "P" on the map above.

IT IS WITH GRATITUDE AND HUMILITY THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE LEARNING, SPEAKING, AND GATHERING ON THE ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS OF THE MUNSEE LENAPE PEOPLE, WHO ARE INDIGENOUS TO THIS LAND. WE PAY HONOR AND RESPECT TO THEIR ANCESTORS PAST AND PRESENT, AS WE AT HISTORIC HUGUENOT STREET ARE COMMITTED TO BUILDING A MORE INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE SPACE FOR ALL.

THE LENAPE PEOPLE ARE PROUD OF THEIR HERITAGE. HISTORIC HUGUENOT STREET CONTINUALLY INCREASES ITS EFFORTS TO CONSULT WITH THESE AFFILIATED NATIVE NATIONS AND ACHIEVE COMMON GOALS OF CULTURAL PRESERVATION THROUGH THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS, RESEARCH, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND THE PRESERVATION WORK IN THEIR SACRED HOMELANDS, PLEASE VISIT THESE ONLINE RESOURCES:

Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians

Munsee-Delaware Nation

Delaware Tribe of Indians

Delaware Nation

Delaware Nation at Moraviantown

“New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event” has been developed in partnership with Caesar’s Ford Theatre and Wild Hudson Valley.

This event is sponsored by Arts Mid-Hudson and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

Thank you to the Department of Environmental Conservation Region 3 Forest Rangers for guidance in our events’ fire-safety management.