Established in 1852 in Westminster, Maryland, the Carroll County Almshouse and Farm preserves a mid-19th-century institutional farm centered on a 30-room brick almshouse, with additional buildings including a kitchen and workers’ quarters, dairy, bank barn, blacksmith’s shop, spring house, smokehouse, and ice house. In 1965 it became a museum devoted to rural life and agricultural history and opened to the public on August 13, 1966. Its exhibits, collections, and horse-powered farm machinery interpret how local farm families lived and worked. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, it was Maryland’s first museum of its kind to preserve an entire historic farm landscape.