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​Fremont COUNTY LOESS HILLS & HERITAGE WEEK EVENTS

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Events

Sangria Sunday Music - Music by Jack Miller
Location: Sugar Clay Winery - 1446 240th Avenue, Thurman, IA
Date: Sunday, September 24
Time: 2–5pm

Cost: $5
Contact: Amy & Frank Faust
Email: sugarclaywinery@iowatelecom.net
Phone: 712.628.2020


Heads or Tails Flea Market/Swap Meet
Date & Time: Saturday, September 30, 8am-5pm
​Location: Hamburg


Loess Hills Music Festival & Chicken Fry
Location: Blackburn’s Green Hollow Center, 1291 Cemetery Rd., Thurman, IA
Date: Saturday, September 30
Time: 9am-8pm. Music and chicken fry at noon.
Cost: Free-will offering 

Contact: Bill Blackburn: WRB@WBlackburnConsulting.com / 847.530.4014 or Ken Forney: reforney@hotmail.com / 712.313.0315



Loess Hills Bus Tour
Date: Saturday, September 30
​Time: 1:00pm

Sites include Glenwood Museum, Chief Waubonsie site, Todd house, Hunter School, and Loess Hills Music Festival at Green Hollow Center near Thurman. Featuring Bill Blackburn and John Liu.


Hills Church Service
Location: Blackburn’s Green Hollow Center, 1291 Cemetery Rd., Thurman, IA

Date: Sunday, October 1
Time: 9:30- 10:30am
Contact: Bill Blackburn: WRB@WBlackburnConsulting.com / 847.530.4014 or Ken Forney: reforney@hotmail.com / 712.313.0315


Cemetery Walk 

Date: Sunday, October 1
Time: 4:00 p.m.

Location: Sidney Cemetery, Sidney, IA
Contact: 
Sandra Bengtson, Fremont County Historical Society
Email: fremontcountyhistorical@gmail.com​
Website: www.facebook.com/FremontCountyIowaGenealogyResearch



Sites
Todd House and Underground Railroad Museum
Location: West side of Tabor Park Square, Tabor, IA
Dates and times open: September 30 and October 1, 1-4pm
Contact: Harry Wilkins
Email: wilkinsharry10@yahoo.com,
Phone: 402.578.4928


Moonstone Lavender Garden (tour, etc.)
1449 240th Ave, Thurman, IA
Dates open: September 29, October 1
Time: Saturday 11am–5pm
Contact: Sheryl Hess:
Email: sheryl.hess@hotmail.com
Phone: 712.628.2113

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Sugar Clay Winery
Vineyard Tour in the heart of Loess Hills and Discussion on History of Grape-growing in the Loess Hills
Location: 1446 240th Avenue, Thurman, IA
Open Thursday-Sunday. 
Hours: Thurs.-Sat. 10am-6pm, Sun. 1-5pm


Event--Sangria Sunday Music with Jack Miller ($5)
Sunday, September 24, 2–5pm
Contact: Amy & Frank Faust
Email: sugarclaywinery@iowatelecom.net
Phone: 712.628.2020

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Hunter Country Schoolhouse 
Listed on National Register of Historic Places
Location: Hwy 275 and 120th Street, Tabor, IA
Open by Appointment
Contact: Bob Benton
Email: 
robertbenton2@outlook.com
Phone: 402.690.8820


Fremont County History Center & Championship Rodeo Museum, and
Sunnyside Schoolhouse Museum

609 Cass Street, Sidney, IA (east of the courthouse)
Open Saturday & Sunday, 1-4pm
Contact: Mary Howery: jandmhowery@gmail.com / 712.628.3352 or Sandra Benston: fremontcountyhistorical@gmail.com / 712.374.3248


Southern Loess Hills Interpretive and Welcome Center
Location: 2083 Crossroads Drive, Percival, Iowa (junction of I-29 and Hwy 2)
Open Monday–Saturday, 10 to 4; Sunday, 12 to 4
Phone: 712-350-1059
Email: staff@seeiowa.org


Waubonsie State Park
Park includes four-state scenic overlook.
Location: 2585 Waubonsie Park Road, Hamburg, IA
Open Daily, 4am–10:30pm
Phone: 712.382.2786
Email: Waubonsie@dnr.iowa.gov
 

Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail & Visitors Center
  • Overlook across Missouri River into Fremont County, keelboat, museum, earth lodge
Location: 100 Valmont Drive, Nebraska City, NE
Just west of the Missouri River Bridge on the south side of Highway 2 in Nebraska City, NE
Summer hours (to September 30):  Mon–Sat, 9am-6pm; Sun, 9am-5 pm
Phone: 402.874.9900

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