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  • Agricultural History Farm Park
    Agricultural History Farm Park
    Farm;  Historic Building/Landmark;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    See the past, present, and future of Montgomery County farming at the Agricultural History Farm Park. This scenic 455 acre park features rolling hills, open fields, an apple orchard, and a variety of farm animals. Get a unique perspective on the county’s rich farming heritage while visiting barns, historic buildings, a modern farming activity center, and other facilities at the park. Several groups play an integral role in the maintenance and programming of the Agricultural History Farm Park: Friends of the Agricultural History Farm Park offer programs and provide demonstrations on historical farm life and agriculture. To volunteer or join the Friends, please call 301-670-4661. MCE Master Gardeners offer a variety of plant-related programs and maintain a demonstration garden. For more information, call 301-590-9638. For Public Programs & School Field Trips contact, Lisa Berray, Manager of Interpretation and Visitor Services at 301-467-8273.
  • Black Hill Visitor Center
    Black Hill Visitor Center
    Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    Black Hill Visitor Center is located in Boyds, Maryland, overlooking Little Seneca Lake in Black Hill Regional Park. The center is home to the Black Hill Nature Programs. The Visitor Center hosts an information desk, restrooms, exhibits, children’s corner, auditorium, and naturalist staff offices. Outside surrounding the center, are natural play spaces perfect for fun exploration, native plant gardens, a pond, meadow, and a one of a kind Earth Bench. The Visitor Center is a perfect place to get more information about the park, attend a nature program, purchase boating permit, or take a break to enjoy a glorious sunset.
  • Brookside Gardens
    Brookside Gardens
    Park/Garden/Open Space
    Brookside Gardens is a fifty-acre, award-winning horticultural display garden that includes an indoor conservatory with changing seasonal displays, educational programs for children and adults,art exhibits by local artists, summer concert series, annual children's day, special events such as the Wings of Fancy live butterfly exhibit, and the Garden of Lights holiday light show display, rental opportunities are also available.
  • Brookside Nature Center
    Brookside Nature Center
    Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    For more than 50 years, Brookside Nature Center has provided hands-on educational opportunities that connect the natural and cultural assets of Montgomery County. Nestled within 536 acres of Wheaton Regional Park, our facility offers quality programs for people of all ages, interests, and abilities. Learn about the forest habitat on accessible interpretive boardwalks, gaze at a great blue heron at the ponds on the nature grounds, discover a wooded nature play area, and even step back in time atthe 1870s at the Harper Homestead. After exploring our miles of hiking trails, be sure to stop by the nature center building to visit our feathery and scaly residents. The exhibits feature live animals (reptiles, amphibians, and arthropods) and an observation beehive that is abuzz with activity. They are sure to inspire questions and will teach naturalists of all ages how to be engaged with the outside world.
  • Button Farm Living History Center
    Button Farm Living History Center
    Farm;  Historic Building/Landmark;  Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    The historic Button Farm, home to the Menare Foundation, is Maryland’s only living history center depicting 19th century slave plantation life and the heroic story of the Underground Railroad through our unique living history experiences. Situated on 40-acres inside of Seneca Creek State Park in Germantown, Maryland, we restore and maintain the historic buildings and preserve the cultural landscape as a resource for education, preservation, history and heritage.
  • City Hall Concert Pavilion
    City Hall Concert Pavilion
    Outdoor Stage/Amphitheatre;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    The City Hall Concert Pavilion is home to dozens of free outdoor performances each summer. Programs include entertainment for children, a gospel celebration, weekend family concerts featuring everything from jazz and blues to rock and roll, and occasional theatrical performances.
  • Constitution Gardens Park
    Constitution Gardens Park
    Park/Garden/Open Space
    Constitution Gardens celebrates the past, present and future of Gaithersburg with unique interactive play spaces that have been inspired by the cultural, economic and natural history of the area. The park entrance welcomes visitors with a bubbling millstone fountain, gazebo, peony garden, an herb garden spiral walk, and swinging wooden benches. The Lost Library, a story circle featuring log benches, an over-sized storyteller’s chair, and a lending library box, harkens back to when the Gaithersburg Library was located on this site into the early 1980s. Bird’s Nest Hill is home the “Bird’s Nest,” a jumble of logs posts for climbing and pretending, and the garden’s insect hotel. Sliding Hill features a stump scramble, embankment slides and stepping stones. Log Town includes natural climbing elements, a sand play area, log playhouses and tables, stump stools, log flumes, and a sensory garden. It’s also home to Bella, Penelope and Wooley, a hand carved wooden cow, pig and sheep that help remind us of Gaithersburg agricultural past. This area of the park is fenced-in and has stroller parking. The Great Seneca Creek area features picnic tables, a giant, sculptural fallen tree for climbing, and a dry creek with a hand pump. The creek bed is lined with leaves stamped into the concrete and decorative pebbles that sparkle as the water runs over them. Native plants are showcased throughout the entire park, from dedicated pollinator gardens to hilltop oaks that honor the memory of Gaithersburg’s lost Forest Oak tree, the inspiration for the City’s logo.
  • Gaithersburg City Hall Grounds
    Gaithersburg City Hall Grounds
    Outdoor Stage/Amphitheatre;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    Gaithersburg City Hall Grounds
  • Glen Echo Park
    Glen Echo Park
    Aquarium;  Ballroom;  Cultural District;  Gallery;  Historic Building/Landmark;  Museum;  Outdoor Stage/Amphitheatre;  Park/Garden/Open Space;  Performing Arts Center;  Restaurant/Cafe;  School;  Studio;  Theater
    Glen Echo Park is one of the finest cultural resources in Montgomery County. It is home to 14 resident artists and organizations, a thriving social dance program, a restored 1921 Dentzel Carousel, two award-winning children's theaters, weekend drop-in art programs for children, numerous art studios and galleries, a nature program, and hundreds of classes in visual and performing arts, including ceramics, painting, photography, glass, music, dance, and more. These activities, as well as free summer concerts, festivals, and special events bring thousands of visitors to the Park each year.
  • Glenstone
    Glenstone
    Gallery;  Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space;  Restaurant/Cafe
    Guided by the personal vision of its founders, Glenstone assembles post-World War II artworks of the highest quality that trace the greatest historical shifts in the way we experience and understand art of the 20th and 21st centuries. These works are presented in a series of refined indoor and outdoor spaces designed to facilitate meaningful encounters for our visitors.
  • Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center
    Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center
    Historic Building/Landmark;  Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    The Great Falls of the Potomac have drawn people to the river's shore for centuries. To Native Americans it was a gathering place, to George Washington it was an impediment to navigation, to thousands of visitors every year it is an awe-inspiring site. Tourists have been drawn to the Great Falls of the Potomac long before there was a canal. The Great Falls Tavern carries on a long tradition of hospitality for visitors to the C&O Canal. Soon after the canal's ground breaking in 1828 construction began on the original lockhouse. In response to travelers' requests for shelter and a meal, the locktender here at Great Falls, W.W. Fenlon, asked the Canal Company to build the three-story north wing for a hotel. Proposing himself as innkeeper but adding, "Mrs. Felon is better calculated for Land Ladie," he wrote. The hotel opened for business in 1831. The entrance door invited guests into a large, windowed room with fireplaces and a bar. As the inn's first proprietor Mr. Fenlon presided over lively entertainment like fishing parties, dances and social events in the "ballroom," in addition to good dinners and a place to sleep. A community of over 100 people grew nearby with shops and a post office. The National Park Service offers interpretive programs year round and boat rides in the spring, summer and early fall. Please call the visitor center for information at 301-767-3714.
  • Josiah Henson Park
    Josiah Henson Park
    Farm;  Historic Building/Landmark;  Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    Josiah Henson Park is the former plantation property where Reverend Josiah Henson was enslaved. This park is a historic resource of local, state, national and international significance because of its association with Reverend Henson, whose 1849 autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s landmark novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The park is currently open only during a limited number of dates each season. All events are free and open to the public. The Josiah Henson Park is part of the National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program. After extensive public outreach the master plan for the development of Josiah Henson Park was approved and adopted in December 2010. This project now moves to our Park Development Division which has begun the facility planning for this park. Visit the Montgomery Parks facility planning project web page for information on the progress of this project.
  • Locust Grove Nature Center
    Locust Grove Nature Center
    Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space;  School
    Locust Grove Nature Center provides a natural sanctuary from the surrounding urban bustle. Locust Grove offers quality public programs for all ages. These include specialty Nature Immersion school programs, programs for tots/pre-K, nature pre-school program, campfire nature walks, and special events to name a few. You’re also welcome to come and wander our trails, enjoy our observation deck, explore our exhibits indoors and out, or discover the wonder of the Center’s natural playground.
  • Meadowside Nature Center
    Meadowside Nature Center
    Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space;  Zoo
    Located in Rock Creek Regional Park, Meadowside Nature Center offers hands-on natural and cultural history programs for families, schools, and scouts. Spend time hiking eight miles of nature trails or visiting the resident owls, hawks, and American bald eagle in the Raptor Walkway. Inside, explore the diverse habitats found in Maryland as you crawl through a cave in the Legacy of the Land Exhibit. The Curiosity Corner discovery room contains books, games, puzzles, and more live animals for young naturalists to explore nature in a child-friendly environment. Experience the lives of the Maryland pioneer and Eastern Woodland Indian families in the Legacy of the People exhibit where you can try on clothes, play games, and touch animal skins.
  • Oakley Cabin African American Museum & Park
    Oakley Cabin African American Museum & Park
    Farm;  Historic Building/Landmark;  Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    An African American roadside community lived and worked on this historic site from emancipation well into the 20th century. Their culture and traditions heavily influenced those of surrounding communities, and their story is deeply woven into Montgomery County’s rich history. At the center of this site is Oakley Cabin, which was inhabited until 1976 and now serves as a living history museum. Step inside Oakley Cabin and immerse yourself in the history of those who have lived there. The main room on the ground floor wraps around an open hearth, and in a small adjoining room, 19th-century tools and artifacts are displayed. These items were excavated during archaeological digs around the park’s grounds. The two rooms are divided by a bead board partition wall, and a boxed staircase leads to the upper loft. Archaeologists are currently piecing together evidence in an attempt to date the construction of the cabin. The 1½-story oak and chestnut log cabin is a reflection of vernacular architecture. The logs are joined with dovetail joints and chinked with stones, now largely covered with cement. The dove-tailed notching and artful pegging represent superb craftsmanship. The rafters on the roof are “bird-mouthed” over the top log that serves as a plate. The floor of the first level sits on a double sill with a notch in the foundation to allow room for two supporting logs – one for the floor and one for the wall. The cabin sits on a 2-acre tract running along Reddy Branch. The mill pond for Newlin’s Mill was located in the low area behind the building. A trail, partially laid inside the old millrace, leads from the cabin to the site of the mill at the intersection of Brookeville Road and Georgia Avenue. You’ll see numerous wild plants here, many of which are edible or medicinal and were used by local people. Hawks, foxes, deer, raccoons, and other wildlife can often be seen from the cabin or trail, which also passes stone quarries used to dig local stone. Oakley Cabin was originally part of the Oakley Farm, which occupied a portion of Colonel Richard Brooke’s large land tract known as “Addition to Brooke Grove.” Brooke was a Revolutionary War hero known as “the Fighting Quaker.” He built the “big house” called Oakley in 1764, which was destroyed in the 1970s. Brooke died in 1788 and willed all of his property to his only child, Ann, who later married William Hammond Dorsey. They had five children. Like her father, Ann and William never lived on the Oakley Farm. Instead, William built their home, Dumbarton Oaks, in Georgetown. When Ann died in 1802, William sold all of his Georgetown property and moved to Oakley, where he died in 1818. The Dorseys’ son, Richard B. Dorsey, transformed Oakley into a farm, on which his 23 slaves worked. Dr. William Bowie Margruder bought Oakley farm in 1836. A local doctor to both white and black families, Margruder owned 19 slaves to help farm the land. Prior to 1879, two more cabins were built on the property, though neither remain. After Dr. Margruder died in 1873, Josiah J. Hutton purchased the farm. According to census records from 1880 to 1920, between 22 and 37 people lived in the three cabins. The residents were both black and white, and worked as farm laborers, carpenters, blacksmiths, and laundresses. They likely shared household tasks and sold produce and hand-made articles to travelers on the Brookeville Road. The cross-section of cultures found here is representative of the unique African-American folk experience.
  • Observatory Park
    Observatory Park
    Historic Building/Landmark;  Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    The park was thoughtfully constructed to reflect the science that took place there. An ellipse representing the Earth’s motion is created between the observatory and the meridian pier, denoted by benches and landscaping. The path itself, when viewed from above, represents the Earth’s wobble. The City of Gaithersburg and five other cities around the globe are linked by a unique scientific endeavor that began more than 100 years ago. They are all home to latitude observatories which tracked the wobble of the Earth on its polar axis through star readings to aid in navigation. Other observatories can be found in Cincinnati, Ohio; Ukiah, California; Mizusawa, Japan; Kitab, Uzbekistan; and Caligari, Sardinia, Italy. The Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory operated from 1899 to 1982, when satellites replaced human observers. It is still active, however, with GPS systems using survey markers installed on these grounds to make periodic course corrections. Fully restored in the 1980's, the observatory building, the meridian mark pier, and the five geodetic monuments scattered throughout the park are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • Riverworks Art Center Studios at Alden Farms
    Riverworks Art Center Studios at Alden Farms
    Cultural District;  Farm;  Gallery;  Historic Building/Landmark;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    The Riverworks Art Center Studios are located at the beautiful rural Alden Farms in the heart of the MoCo AgReserve.   The studios are located behind the main house with sculpture gardens designed by David Theriault, pavilion for outdoor events, and a gallery in the barn.  
  • Sandy Spring Museum
    Sandy Spring Museum
    Gallery;  Museum;  Park/Garden/Open Space;  Studio
    The museum hosts performances, classes, workshops, live music, lectures, exhibits and so on!  We work with creative people who need space and we help them to market their ideas.
  • Silver Spring Civic Building
    Silver Spring Civic Building
    Community Center;  Outdoor Stage/Amphitheatre;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    The Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza, located in Downtown Silver Spring, is a premier event facility that provides an elegant setting for all types of events. Just minutes from the Nation’s Capital and several local hotels, the Civic Building combines modern touches with natural design and provides space for corporate events, private parties, wedding ceremonies, receptions, and more! Right outside of the front door you can find the beautiful Veterans Plaza, which provides outdoor space for concerts, festivals, and live entertainment. The Civic Building is a genuinely unique urban venue. Known for its sophisticated Great Hall, and a variety of activity/conference rooms, your event is sure to be a memorable experience at an exceptional value! Because of its unique features, this venue can host personal celebrations and can be booked farther in advance.
  • The Activity Center at Bohrer Park
    The Activity Center at Bohrer Park
    Park/Garden/Open Space
    The Activity Center at Bohrer Park at Summit Hall Farm is home to Gaithersburg’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture. The facility houses a fitness center, gymnasium space, meeting rooms, locker rooms, and vending machines. Also on the property are expansive picnic pavilions, a fishing pond, and the City’s Outdoor Water Park, Skate Park and Miniature Golf Course.
  • Woodend Mansion and Sanctuary
    Woodend Mansion and Sanctuary
    Historic Building/Landmark;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    Historic Woodend Sanctuary & Mansion is the perfect venue for your social and corporate event, conveniently located in Chevy Chase, MD, less than 9 miles from the White House and just a few minutes from the Capital Beltway. Woodend is a historic home located in Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Maryland. This Georgian Revival house was built in 1927–1928, and owned by the Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States. It is a ​2 1⁄2-story house with Flemish bond brick walls and brick quoins. The house was designed by John Russell Pope. The Audubon Naturalist Society maintains the Woodend Nature Sanctuary on the 40 acre property, which is open to the public. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
  • Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park
    Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park
    Historic Building/Landmark;  Park/Garden/Open Space
    Home to the Woodlawn Visitor Center, the Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park focuses on the Sandy Spring area's strong historical ties to Underground Railroad activity. The federal-era manor house contains richly restored furnishings along with a quiet bucolic setting. The manor sits on several acres of land that include a unique stone barn, four original outbuildings and several champion trees. Visitors to the park can also take part in the The Underground Railroad Experience Trail that commemorates the involvement of Montgomery County residents in the Underground Railroad and celebrates the Quaker heritage and traditions of Sandy Spring.
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