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- Choose Your
Adventure Tour Information
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- You might want to
note another amazing addition.
Historic Bowens Mills also offers private
parties, family gatherings and small group tours the opportunity, to create your
own "Choose your Adventure" package. Your package can include choices
of wonderful memories like home cooked dinners, horse drawn rides or snacks by
the fire, along with some of your own ideas to make your party or event
"personalized" and of your own special choosing.
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"Choose
your Adventure" packages
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For groups of 15 - 40
people
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Horse Drawn Rides $ 5.00 ea.
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Cider & Grist
Mill Tours $3.00 ea.
- Bonfire
by the barn $ 10.00 per group
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Groups of more that 40
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Cider & Grist
Mill Tours $3.00 ea.
- Horse
Drawn Rides $3.00
- Mill
& Hay Ride Combination Tour $5.00
- Bonfire
by the barn $ 10.00 per group
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Groups that are smaller Call for
Details
- A Victorian Farm House
built by the Bowens.
- Dinner parties and memories of your own
special making
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We also do:
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• Weddings • Company Picnics •
Family Gatherings • Meetings and private parties •
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on the grounds or in any one of our
buildings.
- Choose your Adventure Packages
- Per Time Slot $300.00
- 2 Time Slots $600.00
- Afternoon Slot Noon to 5:00 pm
- Evening Slot 7:00 - Midnight
- (Cost includes building use only -
- does not include Grounds or Tables & Chairs)
- Per Time Slot $150.00
- Afternoon Slot Noon to 5:00 pm
- Evening Slot 7:00 - Midnight
- (Cost includes grounds use only -
- does not include Tables & Chairs)
- $100.00 Deposit Required to book your date to be paid the day the of
booking (non refundable)
- Each additional selection will be an individual charge to be paid in
full 1 week before the event.
- Belgian Horses (45 minutes) $100.00
- (W/party booking, basic buckboard type wagon)
- for each additional 30 minutes $50.00
- Tables:
- Banquet tables $10.00
- (Tables seat approximately 8 guests)
- Seating:
- Straw bale rental $1.00
- Folding Chairs (per chair) $1.00
- Food for Event:
- (food can be catered for an area restaurant prices may vary)
- Use of Granny’s Kitchen $100.00
- Bowen house $75.00
- (Rental of the Living room by the hr.)
- Bowen house for Bridal Party (Before Wedding 2 hrs.) $150.00
- These prices may vary depending on your wishes.
- Any arrangements covered on this page
- must be made at least 30 days
- before the date of your Event.
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- The
19 acre Historical Park now consists of :
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1864 Grist & Cider Mill
The antiquated four-story building’s main floor houses a working Water
Powered
Cider Mill and Grist Mill and a Museum
plus a Gift and Antique Shop. There is a Blacksmith Shop, a Water
Powered Machine Shop in its lower Level. The third floor has been
transformed into a quaint and cozy living quarters. The top floor has a lot
of old machinery, gears, and pulleys still in that area.
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1840’s two story Plank House,
the oldest house in Bowens Mills • 1850’s One Room School House, moved to
the mill, the oldest one room school house in Barry County
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1860’s 11 room Victorian House
built by the Bowens
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A Post & Beam Barn,
home of Belgian Draft Horses
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A Quaint Covered Bridge
crosses the Old Mill Stream
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17 foot Water Wheel
completed in 1999
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“Ye Ole Craft Shoppe”
an artisans woodworking and coopers shop
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“Bowens Mills Gathering Place”
a huge Arts & Entertainment Center for displays,
social events, meetings, conferences, & performances
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Log Cabin
“Fork River Trappers Trading Post” Completed in 2002
The Yearly
Calendar Consist of:
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The Historical Park & The Miller's Wife
Store is Open After Memorial Day
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Monday thru Friday - noon to 4pm.
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Admission Charge is $2.00 to the Park
during regular business hours
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Saturdays in April Live Baby Animals,
Horse Drawn Rides and Spring Photos Open - noon to 5
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Saturdays & Sundays Noon to 5 pm
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Gate Fee $5 adults $2 Children 5-15
