Great Lakes Seaway
Trail, NY and PA; August 21, 2012 – Saturday, September 29 is New York State’s day to commemorate
the War of 1812, much of which took place along the waters of St. Lawrence
River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River, and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania.
Nine communities along those waters and on the 518-mile Great Lakes Seaway
Trail National Scenic Byway offer 1812-theme self-guided walking tours daily
dawn-to-dusk.
The 3.1 and 6.2-mile
walks in Ogdensburg, Sackets Harbor, Oswego, Pultneyville, Youngstown,
Lewiston, Williamsville, and Buffalo, NY; and Erie, PA, are sanctioned by the American
Volkssport Association (AVA).
There is no charge
to complete the walks. Walkers must register in the Walkbox at each starting
point business. Anyone carrying a Volkssport logbook can purchase the official
credit for $3.00. Those completing the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Walks in any of
the nine communities can purchase commemorative pins ($5 each) featuring
different symbols of the war, including a sailing ship, cannon, soldier, Fort
Ontario and Fort La Presentation, crossed rifles, the burning of Buffalo, a
young America’s flag and the battle flag of the USS Brig Niagara.
The 2nd
annual War of 1812 Walk will take place in Sackets Harbor, NY, on Saturday,
September 29, starting with registration at 8:30am at the Seaway Trail
Discovery Center, 401 Main Street. $3.00 to walk and earn AVA/IVV (American
Volkssport Association/International Volkssport Federation) credit. Sackets
Harbor 1812 pin award is $4.00 for those earning credit; $5.00 for non-credit
walkers. Walker packets will be available for $5 ($19 value, includes logbooks
for earning credits walking all around the world). Walkers completing the
Sackets Harbor 1812 Walk for the $3 AVA credit will also receive free admission
to the Discovery Center and the weekend Great Lakes Seaway Trail 1812 1/2 Quilt
Show.
Members of the Great
Lakes Seaway Trail Volkssport Association will be available 10am-5pm during the
September 29-30 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show at the Discovery Center to
answer questions about the sport of Volkswalking.
For more information
on the 1812 Walks, contact Great Lakes Seaway Trail Volkssport Association
President Daryl Giles at 315-646-1000 x200, daryl@seawaytrail.com, www.seawaytrail.com/volkssport. #
...Visit 1812 Theme Destinations on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
· Erie, PA: Home to the restored brig Niagara,
the ship with which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British in the
strategic Battle of Lake Erie
· Dunkirk, NY: Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse
and Veterans Park Museum, near where some of the first shots of the war were
fired
· Buffalo, NY: 1812 exhibits and artifacts at
Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, Buffalo History Museum, and
Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village
· Youngstown, NY: Old Fort Niagara,
instrumental in the Americans’ capture of Fort George across the Niagara River
· Waterport, NY: Brown’s Berry Patch, a modern farm market today, is where
Grandma Brown reportedly stood her ground against the British and routed them
back to Lake Ontario
· Rochester, NY: Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Bicentennial Peace Garden, site
of several British raids
· Pultneyville and
Sodus Point, NY: Sites of several British raids and battles, visit
Williamson-Pultneyville Historical Society, Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum and
Bicentennial Peace Garden and 1812 mural
· Sterling, NY: named for Revolutionary War
General Lord William Stirling, was formed in 1812. Sterling Historical Society
records include the 1812 Sterling Militia, known as Divine’s Company
· Oswego, NY: Fort Ontario State Historic Site,
focal point of the Battle of Oswego, in which the British captured and largely
destroyed the fort; H. Lee White Marine Museum includes a display on the USS
Oneida, built in Oswego and instrumental in the naval war
· Sackets Harbor, NY: a shipbuilding center
during the war, visit Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site and the
1812 exhibit at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center
· St. Lawrence County: Site of the future replica of Fort La
Presentation; an active group is preserving the local War of 1812 with an
annual reenactment of the February Battle of Ogdensburg and other events
· Trailwide: 1812 theme Great Lakes Seaway
Trail “Outdoor Storyteller” interpretive signs are found across the 518-mile
byway.
Share:
.jpg)
0 Comments to "Walk on War of 1812 Day on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail"