At Fort Yargo, volunteer living historians maintain the original 1790s blockhouse and demonstrate the lifeways and skills of the late 18th and very early 19th centuries. The surrounding structures and gardens were built according to a site plan recreating a typical trading station on the western frontier of the new country, and volunteers perform work there as much as possible with the same tools and techniques used in the period. Dedicated historians in the Fort Yargo Living History Society work to represent accurately the history of the Winder area, especially the original Fort Yargo trading station, and to educate visitors through hands-on demonstrations and explanations of the lifestyle and circumstances experienced by people settling on Georgia's frontier. Most of the materials and tools used at the trading station have been donated by individuals and corporations, with support also coming from groups including the Friends of Fort Yargo, the Rotary Club of Winder, Bramlett and Associates Architecture, Montana Development, Inc., and others. Fort Yargo is owned by the people of the State of Georgia, managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and regularly open for demonstrations and visitation. Society members carefully choose late 18th-century clothing typical of the period, much of it handmade, and on activity days they may be found throwing tomahawks, planting a garden, working on new structures, cooking on an outdoor hearth, and demonstrating other late 18th-century skills; on Market Fair Days, visitors can take part in a Federal-period encampment.