Welcome to the new site of the Olde Fort Mifflin Historical Society. Many thanks to our webmaster Pete Lamb for getting the site up and running. Also thanks to his wife Jane for sharing Pete's time so that he could make this happen.

A little background on OFMHS; many of us had already been volunteering at Fort Mifflin in the 1960's through the 1970's with the Shackamaxon Society. They in turn moved on to other projects. Several of us felt that we needed to stay. Although most of us were amateur historians and new to re-enacting, we re-formed and started what is now known as the Olde Fort Mifflin Historical Society, Inc.

The mission of the Olde Fort Mifflin Historical Society is to: “Provide awareness of the defenses of the Delaware River and the City of Philadelphia through education and demonstrations.” This is done in several ways. First support of the volunteers that provide living history demonstrations from all military periods that the territory known as Fort Mifflin was served by. Providing lecturers and interpreters, for Living History Events, in the Tri-State Area. The Olde Fort Mifflin Historical Society is a non-profit educational organization.

The primary purpose of this Corporation is (a) to promote American military and social history centered on the events of Olde Fort Mifflin located on the site of Mud Island, (b) to establish a living museum to portray such military and social history, (c) to perpetuate the memory of the soldiers who defended the Fort during the American Revolution, and those who served the Fort during its many years of service to the United States of America.

At first it was attempting to get everyone who could to be there every weekend rain or shine, snow or mud. On some weekends we had 20 to 30 members and others we had a small crew of 3 or 4. Yet we stood to tell the important story of Fort Mifflin and the defense of the Delaware in 1777 and how her service and the 400 plus men helped save General Washington's Army.

As I stated earlier we were 20 to 30 members strong in supporting Fort Mifflin and the History of the American Revolution. We manned the Fort and attended other "Living History" re-enactments from Vermont to Virginia which were hosted by other groups with similar interest. Today we are 100 individuals, families and groups whose interest stems from Living History of the 17th century through 20th Century. Anything from military to social, to trades are examined by our members and at times displayed for the public to see and participate in.

What we also do is provide whatever help we can to Fort Mifflin, a National Historic Monument and a National Historic Landmark. We will help paint, weed, clear trails and other tasks as they are needed or crop up. We raise funds for the several events that we assist with especially our key event, the annual Siege and Bombardment Weekend. This event is held the second weekend of November to commemorate the 250 to 300 men that were either killed or wounded during the six days of the most intense artillery fire of the entire American Revolution.