History & museums · Hesston (near La Porte), Indiana

Civil War Train Raids at Hesston

26–27 June 2027 (expected date: not yet announced)

Indoors

Locomotive No. 242 taking on coal on a running day at the Hesston Steam Museum. Photo: Franklin Campbell, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A living-history weekend at the Hesston Steam Museum, with Civil War reenactors staging train raids on the museum's railroad.

Last weekend of June.

The event’s own website › See it on the calendar 🧭 Directions

Eat and stay nearby

Heston Supper Club Eat · La Porte (Hesston) · 1.0 mi
Redamak's Eat · New Buffalo · 4.1 mi
Gordon Beach Inn Stay · Union Pier · 5.0 mi

Dates come from the event’s own website or its organisers, last checked October 2026. Check before you go: dates and times change. Something wrong? Tell us.