Photo Credit: Zane Healy, Cheadle 2022

Winter Quarters 
April 10-11, 2026

This event is for NCWC/WCWA Members Only
Details For 2026!!

Coordinator: Keith Menk 

Friday arrival for set up at Antique Powerland, begins at 4pm and the gate remains open until 9pm. If you'll be arriving later then that please contact your unit's Captain or Keith Menk for the gate code.

Parking on Friday is by your camp, however vehicles need to be moved outside the main gate to the parking area on Saturday Morning by 9am. Parking for Reenactors is on Farmers Road: it is on the north side of the truck museum and runs east/west, it is also the road that has traditionally separated our Northern and Southern camp. PLEASE NOTE: the handy-cap spaces in front of the truck museum and the gravel lot in front of and beside the Caterpillar must be kept open for the general public and volunteers coming to see Powerland's Volunteer Fair. 

Saturday arrival is 9am for those not camping Friday night. 

Civilian and sewing sessions will be held in the administration conference room. Please bring an extension cord to go with your sewing machine. One of the sewing projects may include sewing for soldiers, period sewing, and quilting. 

Military sessions will be held outside or in the truck museum and or the conference room within. 

The garage sale will be held in the truck museum starting at 2pm. We must clean up after ourselves. And we MUST pick up the table and chairs in this room when moving them- do not drag them across the floor! 

If you are camping you must leave by noon on Sunday.

No meals will be provided and no concessions are open on site.

Above ground fires only, please bring your wood.
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Period dress is encouraged, but not required. IF you aren't dressed in period and happen to have an orange T-shirt from  the Steam-Up last year- you are encouraged to wear that. Otherwise, dress comfortably. 

Being an even year- safety tests will not be given at this time in club wide fashion. 

Antique Powerland is also hosting some conferences on Saturday. So there will be people on site other than our group. Be kind, courteous, and leave a good period impression on these folks. This could be an opportunity to recruit new members. 




                                                                Event Schedule:

Friday April 10th =  Early Arrival is 4pm-9pm. 

Saturday April 11th: 
- 10am: Registration and sign in: will be located in the Conference Room. Late arrivals will sign in at the 1st MN tent - look for the recruiting sign. Capt. Wendel will have a copy of the club's roster to use in Kristi's absence. 

-10am: Additional sign up sheets will be available, first come/first serve for signing up for our following volunteering events: Cheadle Lake School Day,  Clatsop County Fair, and Antique Powerland's Steam UP! For more info- please check out our "Volunteering Volunteers!" tab under Events. 

-10:30am: Sewing Circle: gift shop for the ladies to set up to quilt and or sew at the administration conference building. 

-10:30am-11:30am: We are looking for content and will be filming "Reels" to use for advertising." Training on marketing, creation of reels, and material for social media posts. 

-10:45am: Drill!! Battalion and Company, led by commanders. 

-11am: Medical Demo Feedback and Improvement time with Doc. Keith Menk. If you participate currently as one of our regularly wounded soldiers and or would like to learn more about what we do in the Medical Demo: fall in for sick call! 

11am: Artillery Drill and possible demonstration. 

-11:30am-12:30pm: Lunch- please pack lunch or purchase from fast food across the street. 

-12:30- Leadership Class: led by Col. Leaton. (All are welcome to attend. this is not just for officers and NCO's!)

1pm- "The Value of a Mess:" an assortment of notes, details, and concepts about feeding the Armies during the Civil War: led by Capt. Ashley Wendel  

-1:30pm- Play read thru: "Our American Cousin" by Tom Taylor, led by Keith Menk. ((For those who don't know the significant history of this play, it is the play that President Abraham Lincoln was viewing when he was assassinated on April 14, 1865!)) 
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-2pm: Garage sale: set up- sale- clean up, must be out of the building by 5:30pm. Hosted by the 1st Minnesota. The sale is open to all members to set up a table and sell period equipment and clothing, it is also for all members to come and shop. Please pay the person at the individual tables as you make your rounds. 

- 6pm: Union Battalion Officers and 1st SGT call. 

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Side note on Winter Quarters next year for 2027.
It will be moved to a new location: Rossi Farms.
And the new coordinators will be: Craig Flynn and Matt Bishop.