Make plans to do your holiday shopping from the modern and period vendors offering anything from historical replications to country, southwestern and western arts and crafts. Many foods will be available as well. Old Fort Parker is kept open by the local citizens who hold this special event once a year. Most Texas school children thrill to the romance and mystery of the story of Cynthia Ann Parker who was captured from the fort in 1836 by hostile Indians, raised by the Comanches, married to the Chief, and who became the mother of Quannah Parker, the last great Comanche Chief. Old Fort Parker is located between Groesbeck and Mexia on Park Road 35, just off Texas Highway 14.
Camping is available.