Fort Cooper Days

The sound of musket volleys and the smell of gunpowder greet visitors to Fort Cooper State Park when it celebrates Fort Cooper Days. Experience Florida’s history during the April 1836 skirmishes of the Second Seminole War on the shores of Lake Holathlikaha. Watch as volunteers re-enact an attack between a group of Seminoles and members of the First Georgia Battalion of Volunteers. Re-enactments. Many of the pictures below were taken by Morris Foster.

Along the shoreline of Lake Holathlikaha, there were several living history displays.