Village History of Events

When the Wheatland Missouri Settler's Village first started it was called the Pioneer Village, but they changed the name to what it is today! Let's take a trip down memory lane! Unfortunately, there are a lot of gaps in the history! We will have to contact the Index to get older news articles on the years that are missing! 

All pictures, newspaper articles, and paperwork are from the 2nd Harvest Festival

There was a lot of information missing between 2002 and 2009! We hope to find more information and fill this in eventually!

Unfortunately for the community the Harvest Festival was almost cancelled this year! It would have been almost impossible to start this up again once you shut down a festival!

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There is no information available for 2021. The event/events may have been canceled due to COVID!

Below is a copy of an article in Ozarks Roots, by Julia Turner-Crawford (June 28th, 2024). "Before its Gone".

The first few pictures below are of the Central Hickory Fire Rescue putting our lights up on the cabins! They do this every year for us and then take them back down the first week of January. There are a few pictures of the parade this year also!

As of August 2024, the village was close to the end again! With the election of a new board (which was critical) and plans for the future, we are trying to bring the village back to its former glory! Normal yearly fundraisers & Informational Booths where: St. Patrick's Day - Potato Bake, Business Expo (information booth), Rendezvous (information booth), Lucas 50/50, and Harvest Festival. This year for the Halloween Trunk & Treat Event and Christmas Event, we added food service to counter act all the prize money going out! We have also added the spring and fall 100-Mile Garage Sale Events, in which we have our own garage sale, but also open to vendors to set up and sell! Also added the Annual Car Show, and Monthly Cruise-Ins to add to our fundraising capabilities! We held a Poker Run Event this year but may not do this event again! A big thank you to Turn 1 Bar & Grill for the Poker Tournament/Fundraiser they did for the village this year!

Join us in bringing the village back to Life!

St. Patrick's Day - 2025

Unfortunately, we were rained out this year!

This is the first 100-Mile Garage Sale Event we participated in for the Spring. We were rained out, but one brave vendor (Aimless Shopping) stayed with us all weekend. We put them in the Ice Cream shop to stay dry, and that's how we found out it was leaking really bad!

Poker Tournament - June 6th, 2025

Attached is the article about our Poker Tournament! It fell on the same weekend as the 100-Mile Garage Sale! The article mislabels the event as a Poker Run, when in fact it was a Tournament, and we served food at Turn 1 Bar & Grill for the other part of this fundraiser!

Wonderful turn out for the first year! 

Lucas 50/50 - June 14th, 2025

This was a long day! After working the car show all day, we had to run up to Lucas Oil Speedway for our 50/50 drawing! It just happened to be the day they drew us for our turn at the Raffle!

Wheatland Baptist Church joined our Cruise-In and started handing out water and popsicles! 

Inaugural Poker Run, not sure if we're going to try this again! A lot of work for very little return. 

The following pictures are of different vendors that set up for the fall Garage Sale!

All of the hard work started paying off for the year! The Harvest Festival really grew this year! One of our new partners is the Chickamauga Cherokee of MO & AR!