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The Custom House is celebrating Essex National Heritage Area’s “Trails and Sails” on Saturday, September 25, 2021, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm with a Revolutionary War Militia Muster. This reenactment event will highlight Newburyport’s role in the American Revolution. Visit our back lawn to see Captain John Wood’s Company, Colonel Gerrish’s 25th Regiment of the Massachusetts Grand Army. The group will interpret a unit that was raised in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1775, as well as Virginia riflemen who stopped in Newburyport on their way to Arnold’s Expedition to Canada.
This event is free and open to the public. Rain date is Sunday, September 26th.