6310 Georgetown Pike •  McLean, VA 22101 •  703-442-7557
	A visit to the Claude Moore Colonial Farm is a visit to another world ...the world of an 18th Century family living on a small, low-income farm just prior to the Revolutionary War. The year is 1771 ... won't you come and visit?

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18th Century Farm Wednesday - Sunday 10 am to 4:30 pm Closed July 22 & 23 due to extreme weather GateHouse Gift Shop Wednesday - Sunday 10 am to 5 pm Used Book Store Wednesdays from 3 to 8 pm Plant Sales Tuesday - Friday from 10 am to 5 pm Farm Skills Summer - Thursdays, July 7, 21, 28 Autumn Thursdays, Sept. 23, 29 Oct. 6, 20, 27 & Nov. 3, 10 18th C. Autumn Market Fair Saturday & Sunday October 15 & 16 from 11 am to 4:30 pm

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Excerpt from the journal of Anna Green Winslow, age 12: "March 9th, 1772.—After being confined a week, I rode yesterday afternoon to & from meeting in Mr Soley's chaise. I got no cold and am pretty well today. This has been a very snowy day today. Any body that sees this may see that I have wrote nonsense but Aunt says, I have been a very good girl to day about my work however—I think this day's work may be called a piece meal for in the first place I sew'd on the bosom of unkle's shirt, mended two pair of gloves, mended for the wash two handkerchiefs, (one cambrick) sewed on half a border of a lawn apron of aunts, read part of the xxist chapter of Exodous, & a story in the Mother's gift. Now, Hond Mamma, I must tell you of something that happened to me to-day, that has not happen'd before this great while, viz My Unkle & Aunt both told me, I was a very good girl. Mr Gannett gave us the favour of his company a little while this morning (our head). I have been writing all the above gibberish while aunt has been looking after her family—now she is out of the room—now she is in—& takes up my pen in my absence to observe, I am a little simpleton for informing my mamma, that it is a great while since I was prais'd because she will conclude that it is a great while since I deserv'd to be prais'd. I will henceforth try to observe their praise & yours too. I mean deserve. It's now tea time—as soon as that is over, I shall spend the rest of the evening in reading to my aunt. It is near candle lighting." See the full text at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20765/20765-h/20765-h.htm

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