USNPS may re-open shuttered living history farm

After months in limbo, the Claude Moore Colonial Farm could eventually reemerge into the public eye once the National Park Service envisions how the 69-acre operation could be brought back to life.

The farm located not far from Washington, D.C., went quiet in mid-December when the Park Service closed it after failing to come to terms with Friends of Claude Moore Colonial Farm on how to operate the window into the past.

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2019/03/national-park-service-hoping-reopen-claude-moore-farm

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