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The first year of the farm's petting zoo was a difficult starting point, because it was also the year of the Beltway sniper attacks in Maryland. During this period, every school tour planned for the farm was cancelled. [11] After the Beltway sniper's capture, the average number of visitors attracted to the farm grew to 80,000 per year. [12]
Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Cove Farm is a national historic district that includes a living farm museum operated by the National Park Service, and located at Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland. It is part of National Capital Parks-East. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1]
21 Maryland. 22 Massachusetts. 23 Michigan. 24 Minnesota. 25 Mississippi. 26 Missouri. ... Smoky Mountains Deer Farm and Exotic Petting Zoo, Sevierville; Southland ...
Clagett Farm produces over 60,000 pounds of vegetables (and some fruit) each year. [4] [5] The farm strives to use sustainable techniques in farming.Clagett Farm also stresses the vegetable production plan, From the Ground Up, a joint effort by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Capital Area Food Bank to raise a variety of produce and provide food to people of all income levels.
The farm comprises three contiguous areas, separately purchased, totaling about 390 acres (160 ha). The land is a mix of open farm fields and woods. [5] Whittaker Chambers ran this "dirt farm" as a dairy farm. [4] The first tract of land, a 40-acre (16 ha) parcel, purchased by Chambers in 1941, formed the original core of the farm.
The first documented Africans were brought to Maryland in 1642, as 13 slaves at St. Mary's City, the first English settlement in the Province. [1] Slave labor made possible the export-driven plantation economy. The English observer William Strickland wrote of agriculture in Virginia and Maryland in the 1790s:
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Maryland is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Maryland [1] [2 ...
The once large Markell dairy farm, with its lane to the Ballenger Creek ford of the Monocacy River, served as the primary approach route to the battlefield by Confederate troops during the July 9, 1864 Battle of Monocacy during the American Civil War. [2] The George Markell Farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...