The Tumwater Historical Association (THA) offers the community the opportunity to partake in a variety of fun, historical, and educational activities. Below is part of a growing list of the types of activities you can expect.

Pioneer Fair - Saturday, June 4, 2011 - Click Pioneer Fair to print flyer/directions.

  Tumwater Middle School Homesteader students demonstrate their pioneer skills by presenting a hands-on children's fair filled with activities like candle and rope making, blacksmithing, laundering, butter churning, and quilt making. This fun-filled three-day fair is shared with all Tumwater 4th grade students. The public is invited to attend the Pioneer Fair the first Saturday after Memorial Day.  

Cider Sunday - Sunday, October 2, 2011

  Community members bring apples and pears for the Homesteader students to press into cider. The students, in period clothes, wash, cut up and press the fruit. They also demonstrate pioneer games and toys, and provide pies and other apple treats for sale to the public.

History Events

  This involves entertaining and informative historical speakers, re-enactments, and other presentations on heritage living. The many past presentations include: "The Territorial Express Stagecoach Run", "Fiddling down The Oregon Trail", "The Intrepid Victorian Traveler", and the "We Vote Celebration for 100 Years of Women Suffrage".