The 76th annual Platteville Dairy Days will be this weekend, along with the 25th Platteville Historic Re-enactment.

The Re-enactment will be held at Mound View Park Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Re-enactment will feature voyageur camps, military demonstrations, blacksmithing, a silent auction, and hunter, trapper and miner James Beckworth. Friday will be School Day.

A scavenger hunt will award prizes by visiting each camp and completing the worksheet.

More information is available at www.mining.jamison.museum/hr.

Dairy Days will feature three days of events at Legion Park, except for the Dairy Days parade, which will be held on Main Street Saturday at 9:30 a.m., with Joe and Kathy Kopp the parade marshals (see related story, page 1).

The Tri-County Mini Rods and Fantasy Truck Pull will be held Friday at 6:30 p.m. The Dairy Days Open Tractor Pull will be held Saturday at 5:30 p.m. A kiddie tractor pull will be held Sunday at 1 p.m.

Musical entertainment includes The Real Beals Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Brooke Byam & the Daymakers Saturday at 8 p.m., and The Wundos Sunday at noon.

The Dairy-Oke contest will be held Friday at 7 p.m.

Platteville United Methodist Church will hold a service featuring the Alive Band Sunday at 10 a.m.

The Dairy Cattle Show will be held in the Livestock Tent Saturday at noon. Junior and open exhibits will be on display Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. The dairy and meat goat show will be in the Livestock Tent Sunday at noon.

New this year is the Escape Room Challenge Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. An Astonishing Hypnotist will perform Saturday at 12:45 and 6 p.m. HD Academy dancers will perform Saturday at 2 p.m. The Magic of Jim Mitchell will be Saturday at 3 p.m.

The Christman Amusements Carnival will open Friday at 5 p.m., with wristbands Friday and Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

The flea market will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 a.m.

More information is available at www.plattevilledairydays.com.

Along with Dairy Days will be the Southwest Wisconsin Auto Club’s 49th annual car show and swap meet at Platteville High School Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Judged classes will cover from pre-World War II vehicles to 2013 cars and trucks.

For more information, contact Mark Stead, 608-348-8411 or 608-778-2182.