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Waterford Fair

81st American Crafts & Historic Homes Tour

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2026 Exhibits, Demonstrations & Tent Talks

Exhibits & Demonstrations

Art at the Red Barn

Artist exhibition day & time coming soon!


Old School Area

John & Chandra DeWald, Powder horn making, colonial needlework, and garland making

Chesapeake Region Lace Guild

Jacob Grotheer and Tim Simpson, Georgia Colony Smiths

Rebecca Suerdick, Historian & Perfumer – porch

Jeff Ball, Earthly Host – Cemetery (behind the Old School)

Bond Street Barn Area

African American Experience of Waterford Display – Liggett Street stone wall

Daughters of the American Revolution

Sons of the American Revolution

John Wesley Church Area

Hessian Regiment Von Huyn – Churchyard

Village Center

Eugene Scheel, Mapmaker – Map Shop

Glenn McIntyre, Gunsmith – Celebrating 75 Years at the Waterford Fair!
Read the story behind one of the Waterford Fair’s longest-running demonstrations.

Second Street School

Explore an 1880’s Classroom (15611 2nd St.)


Tent Talks

click here to reserve your free Tent Talk ticket (Scroll down)

Friday

12:30 pm: Ken Bancroft, Historian
Loudoun’s Revolutionary War Diary

2:00 pm: Rebecca Suerdieck, Williamsburg Historian, Researcher and Perfumer
Secrets from an 1824 Kitchen: Mary Randolph’s International Recipes

Saturday

11:00 am: John DeWald, Master Horner, The Horn & Needle
Accouterments from the 18th Century

12:30 pm: Margarete Miller, Podcaster, Author, and Collage Artist
The Maranda Project: Discovering an 1860 Friendship Album

2:00 pm: Larry Roeder, CEO of the Edwin Washington Society
Black Education During Segregation in Loudoun County

Sunday

12:30 pm: Carl Scheider, President, Waterford Foundation
A Brief History of Waterford

2:00 pm: Tim Simpson, Historical Blacksmith, Georgia Colony Smith
Toys and Games in the Revolution


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Waterford Old School
40222 Fairfax Street
Waterford, Virginia 20197


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