If the Raccoon River Valley Trail has you in Redfield on this weekend of June 25-27, be sure to take time to enjoy an amazing line-up of music, food and fun. It’s the annual “Old Settlers Celebration,” and this is Redfield’s Sesquicentennial — 150 years as a community! You can get the details and a list of activities in this story.
REDFIELD, Iowa, June 25, 2010 – If you are coming through this town on the Raccoon River Valley Trail this weekend, June 25-27, you’re going to see a whole lot of activity, as one of Iowa’s oldest community celebrations is being held again. It is the Redfield Old Settlers Celebration, and it is happening in the community’s 150th year.
There will be special food and entertainment throughout the weekend. You can get the full schedule of activities in a special bulletin from the Redfield Review newsletter, by clicking here.
The town was founded in 1860, and the celebration began as early as 1887.
Redfield has always been a brick-making town. You can see the huge active brickyard along the RRVT on the east side of town now, and as you go northwest on the trail from the town, in the trees on the east side of the trail you see the ruins of a much earlier brickyard, complete with fascinating-looking big kilns, themselves made of bricks.
Trail users for 20 years have enjoyed stops at the Redfield Depot, where each weekend from late spring into the fall, members of the Redfield Development Group serve up pie, cookies, cold drinks and more.
So if you’re cruising into town on this coming weekend, take time to stop, enjoy the Old Settlers celebration and congratulate Redfield folks on their town’s 150 years.
