NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WJBF) – North Augusta’s Living History Park is bringing the 1700s back to life—more than a year after Hurricane Helene caused major damage to the site.

Families gathered this weekend for the park’s annual Colonial Times event, which featured historical re-enactments, demonstrations, stories, and traditional food, celebrating the Colonial era of the CSRA.

While the park hosted events last Christmas season and on the Fourth of July, much of the property remained closed after the September 2024 storm.

“A beautiful barn which was built from reconstructed materials that are hundreds of years old still has a thirty-by-twenty-foot hole in the roof,” said Bob Kaltenbach, a blacksmith at the park.

“We have not recovered. The road you’re standing on essentially was not passa

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