{"id":335413,"date":"2026-07-10T06:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335413\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:35:09","slug":"jacksonville-jubilee-kicks-off-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335413\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jubilee kicks off this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ore. \u2013 This Saturday, downtown Jacksonville will come alive with a full day of live music, historical re-enactments, free trolley rides, artisan vendors, and much more!<\/p>\n<p>Attendees can enjoy photo-ops with groups like the Belles &amp; Beaus, tours of the historic Beekman Bank and cemetery, a fire department open house, and a local scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Claus is even planning to make an appearance to celebrate Christmas in July.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Don Litchfield told NBC5 News the festival is inspired by Jacksonville\u2019s \u201cGold Rush Jubilee\u201d held back in 1932.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had donkey races, they had gold panning competitions, they had a contest for the best 1850s costumes, they did a parade\u2026 It was just, you know, a celebration of Jacksonville\u2019s gold mine heritage,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Jubilee starts Saturday at 11 am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">WHAT: The Jacksonville Jubilee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">WHERE: Downtown Jacksonville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">WHEN: Saturday, July 11th, 11:00 am \u2013 7:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9rem;font-style: italic;\">\u00a9 2026 KOBI-TV NBC5. All rights reserved unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ore. \u2013 This Saturday, downtown Jacksonville will come alive with a full day of live music, historical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9024,1099,2884,5949,116,84333,118,138152,117,106,138153],"class_list":["post-335413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-city-of-jacksonville","tag-festival","tag-fun","tag-jackson-county","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-chamber-of-commerce","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jubilee","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-victorian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}