Turpentine Catface Festival

October 2022 (dates not updated)

Carter Turpentine Still
Portal, GA 30450

Status: Updated 1/8/2019

Portal Heritage Society, Inc. has sponsored this free event on for over 25 years, the Catface Turpentine Festival attracts several thousands of visitors each year. The turpentine processing will start where pine tar and gum is cooked down to make turpentine, having potatoes boiled in pine rosin, selling of jars of turpentine. At dark there will be a street dance.

Admission: none
Days/Hours Open: Sat 9am‑11:30pm
Address: 217 Turpentine Drive, Portal, GA 30450
Entertainment: 1 stage - Regional, Local. Music: SW TF BC TC CY ??
Other Activities: parade @ 10am sat., cake walk, auction, cooking of turpentine
Attendance: 2,000
# Food Booths: 35
# of Exhibitors: 50
Juried: no
Prize Money: na
Deadlines: Art & Craft: 09/23/2019
Music: until full
Food: 09/23/2019
Promoter: Portal Heritage Society, Inc.
Show Dir.: Festival Committee
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