It's the third weekend in October. That's means its time for the Apple Butter Stirrin’ Festival in Roscoe Village.

This year marks the 52nd annual edition of one of the largest festivals in Central Ohio. More than 10,000 will attend.

It offers homemade Apple Butter, live music, free crafts for kids, and more than 100 food vendors.

Roscoe Village is a charming restoration of a community that was once a thriving port on the Ohio and Erie Canal. It features 18 shops, living history tours, horse -drawn canal boat rides beautiful gardens and a bevy of restaurants.

Industrialist Edward E. Montgomery and his wife, Frances, purchased the 1840 Toll House at 120 S. Fourth Street in Roscoe in 1961, then restored the building and the town to what it looked like back then, when the Ohio and Erie Canal was bustling with barges.

Frances' Gardens of Roscoe "lovingly left (and) give visitors moment after moment to marvel at the magnificent blooms. Throughout the year, season after season, Roscoe Village boasts a bounty of beautiful gardens." There are nine in total.

Roscoe became the fourth-largest wheat port on the 350-mile canal system, stretching from the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.

Mongomery foudned Edmont Glove Company, which was acquired by Becton Dickinson and Co. n 1966. He and two business colleagues, J.S. Shaw and Seward D. Schooler, teamed up to redevelop the town.

Finally restored in 1969, the original 1800s-era buildings are the hallmark of this quaint, entertaining, and scenic village nestled in the rolling hills of beautiful Coshocton County. 

Where: 600 N Whitewoman St, Coshocton, OH, 45 min. east (36 miles) of Mount Vernon

Dates:  Friday-Sunday, October 20th-22nd, 2023.

Tickets: Purchase online for $5.00 or at the gate for $8.00. 

Children 12 and under are free.

Hours:

Friday: 10 am-6 pm

Saturday: 10 am-6 pm

Sunday: 10 am-5 pm