Discovery Park of America will mark David Crockett’s 238th birthday on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024 with interactive activities, live demonstrations and musical entertainment. Discovery Park’s education team will offer a variety of programs on topics such as woodworking, fur trapping, outdoor cooking and more.

Visitors will also find many other ways to experience David Crockett at Discovery Park that are at the museum and park all year long. Included is a statue dedicated to the frontiersman, a congressional exhibit in Liberty Hall at Freedom Square, a reproduction of Crockett’s portrait by John Gadsby Chapman, a replica of his first and fondest rifle, the Regional History Gallery telling the story of Northwest Tennessee, a 20,000-gallon aquarium and tanks featuring the wildlife of Reelfoot Lake, a one-of-a-kind Earthquake Simulator, the Native American Gallery, an 1800s Tennessee log cabin community, Mill Ridge featuring a working gristmill and the new forge and more.

Celebrate the lives of West Tennessee pioneers and the birthday of David Crockett, the folk hero, politician and Tennessee settler who made his home here from 1822 until he departed for the Alamo in 1835.

More details coming soon!