Join us for a day filled with history at Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park.
Woodlawn Manor was a farm estate owned, in the 1800’s, by Dr. William Palmer, a Quaker country physician and farmer. After his first wife’s death, his second wife, who was not a Quaker, brought twelve slaves with her to the Palmer estate. Dr. Palmer also hired free blacks to farm the estate, but since Quakers didn’t believe in owning slaves, Dr. Palmer was eventually disavowed by the Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting.
We will learn about life at that time by first visiting Woodlawn Manor, a federal style house, occupied by the Palmer family for nearly 100 years. Our tour will include the home’s first floor and outhouses, consisting of a 19th century stone barn, a stone springhouse/meat house, a board-and-batten tenant house, and a log building that may have served as slave living quarters.
We will then move on to the museum, located in the stone barn, to view self-guided exhibits about Woodlawn’s residents, enslaved and free black communities, and the Underground Railroad, as well as the Quaker experience and local agricultural history.
The Manor House tour is $5, and Museum admission is $5 for those 55 and under and $4 for those over 55. Please arrive no later than 10:45 AM, so we can meet and buy tickets at the Visitors Center for both the 11:00 AM Manor tour and the Museum.
After our visit, we will drive to Scratch Kitchen at 18062 Georgia Ave. for lunch in Olney. You can check out their menu at www.scratcholney.com.