While the Eaglemount Winery and Cidery is celebrating 18 years in business, it’s also celebrating 10 years in operation at its current location, at 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road in Port Townsend, and the Eaglemount extended family is inviting the community to the festivities.

Prior to the Palindrome hosting the Tony Furtado trio starting at 7:30 p.m., that space will host Eaglemount’s 10-year anniversary at Arcadia and the Palindrome from 2-5 p.m. Oct. 19, with live music by Sam Maynard and Mama Earth, as well as appetizers, wine, cider and mead.

Eaglemount co-owner and winemaker Trudy Davis has brought events and marketing director Laura Newman on board to expand its offerings, which also include the “Kommuna Lux” Ukrainian band from Odessa Oct. 26, and a Halloween costume ball with local bands Oct. 31.

Trudy Davis recalled how their family business got started. She and her husband Jim acquired the property of the original Washington state homesteaders who’d planted a cider orchard on that farm, when it was first settled in 1883, with Eaglemount Road ultimately lending the Davises’ business its namesake.

Jim found the old homestead in 1980, when he spotted its orchard in bloom from across the valley. In 2006, after years of making ciders and wines for themselves and their friends, Jim and Trudy started a small artisanal winery and cidery at the Eaglemount farm. The 130-year-old heirloom cider orchard provided the inspiration.

Trudy came to Eaglemount as a biochemist specializing in the sciences of winemaking and sanitation, with master’s degrees in environmental health and toxicology from the University of Washington. Her skills seem to have passed onto her son Ben, who serves as the head winemaker at Port Townsend Vineyards.

The Davises tout Eaglemount as the first cidery on the Olympic Peninsula, and credit its harvests with yielding so many apples that “we started making cider as a way to handle the bounty.” The first tasting room opened in 2007.

The Davises bought Eaglemount’s current property, which was then known as Arcadia, in 2014, but they’d been aware of the site for decades — since the Flying Karamazov Brothers converted the barn into a performance space.

With intervening sets of owners and periods of disuse, the facilities had lain fallow for a number of years before the Davis family refurbished them in 2015, with the assistance of Trudy Davis’ sons, Ben and Jesse Thomas.

The remodeling ranged from replacing the tasting room’s linoleum flooring with tiles to installing decking around the buildings. Jesse leant his architectural skills and now grandson Sebastian acts as caretaker to the Arcadia Inn. That is the on-site bed-and-breakfast which has served as a vacation rental space, but which Trudy would like to see accommodate more traveling artists as guests.

As Eaglemount has hosted more events in its spaces, including “epic weddings” at the Palindrome and “glamping” in its yurt, Davis is increasingly leaning on Newman’s experience and insights to further revitalize Eaglemount as a destination.

“I think we agree that we’d like to see more activities for younger visitors and guests,” said Newman, who’s angling to incorporate athletic facilities such as a bocce ball court. “We’d also love to double our concert and dance programs. We still enjoy hosting Rainshadow Recording, but it’d also be great to produce our own shows.”

In spite of Ben and Jesse’s other pursuits, they still swing by Eaglemount, even if it’s simply to crush grapes for their mom’s winery. Jesse expressed pride over Eaglemount’s role in offering events that benefit others, such as the Oct. 26 Ukrainian folk band concert, to raise money for the war-torn country.

“Our family kept its promises not to sell out to developers, and to keep this place accessible,” Jesse Thomas said. “You’ve got three generations of family here who are committed to preserving Eaglemount’s value to the community.”