Two Centuries of Farm Buildings

Sixteen buildings on the main part of this property reflect the lives of the people who lived here over the past two centuries, including who they were, the crops they grew, and the animals they raised. The three oldest buildings at Oxon Cove Park date from the early 1800s, when Dr. Samuel DeButts, Mary Welby DeButts, and their children lived on the farm and called their home Mount Welby in honor of Mary's family. Five buildings survive from the 1890s-1960s, when St. Elizabeths Hospital owned and ran the farm: the hexagonal outbuilding, horse and pony barn, hay barn, feed building, and dairy barn and silo. The remaining buildings in the main part of the park were constructed after the National Park Service began operating a children's farm here in 1967: the grain exhibit building, chicken coop, farm museum, rabbit shed, windmill, tool shed, sorghum syrup shed, and Visitor Barn.

Forest Heights, Maryland · United States