2025 Bucks-Mont Area History Fair
3rd Annual Crooked Billet History Fair | Saturday, April 26, 2025, 10am - 4pm | Horsham, PA
Founders Sponsor
📆 Saturday, April 26, 2025
⌚ 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
📍 227 Meetinghouse Rd, Horsham PA
💲 Free for members (suggested $2 donation for non-members)
→ Scroll down or click here for the list of exhibitors & activities
Join us for The 2025 Crooked Billet History Fair, the area's premier FREE annual history event! Experience exhibitors, games, presentations, activities, costumed characters, demonstrations, speakers, free swag, community, and more —showcasing shared local history and those that keep the light on to preserve it, with a full program of 40 exhibitors from Hatboro, Philadelphia, and across Bucks and Montgomery Counties.
This year’s fair will be bigger and better than ever, with more attendees, presentations, exhibitors, and giveaways, including a free fair tote bag (first 250 guests) — all presented by local sponsors for the first time.
This popular annual fair — organized by The Millbrook Society — draws history enthusiasts, families, educators, and students from across Bux-Mont and Philly to engage with historical societies, museums, municipalities, community organizations, and more (see exhibitors below) showcasing artifacts, maps, photos, documents, models, apparel, accessories, and other items.
Come learn about our area, share stories of our history, hear what historical societies do to preserve and promote our heritage, and discover resources to assist in your own historical research. And enjoy historical presentations, reenactors, lectures, kids’ games, photo ops, concessions, and more (see activities below).
The 2025 fair is so big, it had to be moved to the Keith Valley Middle School campus. If you're a former KVMS student, parent, alum, or teacher, come take a tour for one last look before demolition!
Auditorium Exhibitors (full program, subject to change)
• 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Company C, Gettysburg
• African American Museum of Bucks County, Langhorne
• Amy B. Yerkes Museum of Hatboro History, Hatboro
• American War of Independence Privateer Museum, Quakertown
• Bucks County Covered Bridge Society, Perkasie
• Bucks County Recorder of Deeds Dan McPhillips, Doylestown
• Cairnwood Estate & Bryn Athyn Historic District, Bryn Athyn
• Camp William Penn Association, Cheltenham Twp
• Citizens for the Restoration of Historical La Mott, Cheltenham Twp.
• Colonial Brewer Regimental Brewmeister Michael Carver, Lansdale
• Del-Val Gamers, Holmes
• Edward Morgan Log House, Lansdale
• Enterprise Fire Company of Hatboro, Hatboro (tentative)
• Friends of Bolton Mansion, Levittown
• Friends of Hope Lodge and Mather Mill, Fort Washington
• Friends of Northeast Philadelphia History, Philadelphia
• Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum & Archive, Philadelphia
• Harold F. Pitcairn Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum, Horsham
• Historic Morrisville Society at Summerseat, Morrisville
• Historic RittenhouseTown, Philadelphia
• Historical Society of Ft. Washington & Clifton House, Ft. Washington
• Iron Mountain Orthopaedic Institute, Huntingdon Valley
• Johnsville Centrifuge and Science Museum, Warminster
• The Millbrook Society, Hatboro
• Montgomery County Recorder of Deeds Jeanne Sorg, Norristown
• National Giving Alliance, Warminster
• Newtown Historic Association, Newtown
• Northeast Fudge Bar, Churchville
• Northampton Township Historical Commission & Archives, Richboro
• Old York Road Historical Society, Jenkintown
• Pennypack Questers, Philadelphia
• Richard Wall House & Cheltenham Twp Historical Comm, Cheltenham
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Hatboro
• The Stoogeum, Ambler
• The TileWorks of Bucks County, Doylestown
• Union Library of Hatborough, Hatboro
• Upper Moreland Historical Association, Willow Grove
• William Penn Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Glenside
• William Tennent House Association, Warminster
Presentations & Activities (subject to change)
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• Lost Covered Bridges of Bucks & Montgomery Counties
• A Brief History of the Original Willow Grove Park
• Threads of Time: Morgan Log House From Farm to Fashion
• The History of the Grand Army of the Republic
• The History of Fudge, America's Confection or The Local Philly History of the Three Stooges
• Pop-Up Paper Making Studio Demonstration
• Colonial Surveyor David Rittenhouse Reenactor
• What Did Kids Do Before The Internet? - Hands-on Revolutionary-era games
• Simulation of The Battle of Crooked Billet in Miniature
• Keith Valley Middle School Pre-Demolition Tours
• Ask The Doc with Dr. Mark of Iron Mountain Orthopaedic Institute
• The Battle of the Crooked Billet movie
• more TBA
Society Sponsors
Pioneer Sponsors
Preservationists Sponsors: Acme Markets, Action Karate Martial Arts Jamison, Cloud10 Smartwash, Concordance Ferments, The Greek Korner, The Mens & Boys Store, Ventresca Travel • Heritage Sponsors: Capt'n Chucky's Crab Cake Co., Crooked Eye Brewery • Curators Sponsors: Hatboro Beverages, National Giving Alliance
