Saturday, September 20, 2025, 10AM -5PM
New Freedom Fest is an old-time “festival of small town life”. It includes 3 stages of music, dance and entertainment, arts and crafts, animals, food, games, an art tent with pumpkin painting, and much, much more – all centered around the beautiful and historic town of New Freedom, Pennsylvania.
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New Freedom Heritage is a 503c not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving the rich history and culture of New Freedom, Pennsylvania. It was founded on June 15, 2004 by several members of the New Freedom Community Gardeners whose hope was to promote a better future for the community. That is still an important part of the mission today.
Since it’s inception, New Freedom Heritage has had a significant impact on the community. Activities and projects have included:
– Annual New Freedom Fest More
– Creation of the Freedom Green Community Park More
– Creation of the Heritage Museum of New Freedom and an interactive kiosk
– Summertime free outdoor movie nights
– Town murals
– Recording local history
– Monthly speaker series
– Stream rehabilitation
– Members picnic on the Green
Freedom Green Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
See pictures of the Freedom Green ribbon cutting ceremony. Pictures here
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We love New Freedom, PA.
The museum will be open this Sunday, November 17th from 1-4 if you want to stop in and take a look around. We are also accepting any donations of candy for the Christmas parade. We also have books and mugs for sale - great Christmas gifts!!
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We wanted to remind you that we will have a speaker this Thursday, Nov. 14th at 7:00 pm at the Scout House. Rev. Sterling Fritz will be speaking on Life in 19th Century Shrewsbury Township. It will cover how the lives of Shrewsbury Township residents changed from 1800 to 1900 because of improvements in so many parts of their daily living.
These included changes in Transportation, Communication, Government, Public Education, Agricultural, Industrial, and Family life. They also were impacted by national events like the Civil War and financial turmoil.
A brief bio about Rev. Fritz can be found below.
Rev. Sterling Fritz grew up on a farm that was in the southwest corner of Codorus township off of PA Route 851. He graduated from Susquehannock High School in 1977 and York College of Pennsylvania in 1981. He graduated from Lancaster Theological Seminary in 2002 and has served two congregations as an Ordained United Church of Christ minister. Rev. Fritz has family roots in Shrewsbury Township that date back to the first settlers. He started doing genealogical research when he was in high school and since that time, he has discovered a great deal of information about many generations of his ancestors who lived in Shrewsbury Township. He has utilized civil records, church records, and old newspapers. His research expanded to cover local and community history as well. He and his wife, Rev. Susan Fritz, live in Adams County, PA.
We hope you will be able to join us for a fun and interesting evening. Please share details of the presentation to anyone you think would be interested.
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My grandson, Rylan, was also there and enjoyed all that you talked about and was thrilled to receive his own book. We need more kids getting involved in history!
