This is open once a year for two days I believe. Cost is minimal was like $5 each to get in. Booths selling about everything. Food of all sorts. Love the fresh fried pig rinds. Civil war re-enactments. Great for kids.

Went to the fall festival last year. It is in early October. Booths and exhibits everywhere! Kids love this place. It lets them pick cotton, pet coon dogs etc. Plus you ride a bus in. Not so comfortable for me but my grandchild loved it.

If you want your children to see how things used to be done the old fashioned way, as in farming, knitting, quilting, cooking, goat milking, picking cotton, soap making, tobacco making, etc., this is a must do. They also have a one room schoolhouse, where senior citizens tell old stories for the little ones. They have a generator powered home-made ice cream maker, Amish made clothing and musical instruments, an old chuck wagon that actually has a big pot full of beans and ham, corn fritters, etc. Kettle corn, handmade jewelry, antebellum dresses, bluegrass music, horseshoeing. I could go on an on. Tomorrow will be the ninth straight year my 12-year old daughter and I have attended. I'm hoping the little girl in her will last at least one more year for us to take this family tradition to ten years. Our favorite thing for sure is to get her portrait silhouette done by Ms. Sarah Rick, a talented artist who does an amazing job of cutting your profile out of a piece of black cardboard. This is a must do if you're ever in West Tennessee the first Saturday of October. It's only a one day event, so plan ahead.

The Ames Plantation is an outstanding place to visit. It only gets better if you attend the Heritage Festival in October. Visit their accurate website for date(s) and information. This is a must see for people of any age.

This is the 4th time I've been to the Heritage Festival at Ames Plantation, and it gets better every year. There were many more vendors and lots more to do. Much of it was educational--lots of history of the Civil War. There were many more people there as well. The only bad thing that happened was it started to rain, and everyone was trying to leave at the same time. this made a huge jam of people trying to get on buses which would take us back to the parking area.