Claude Moore Colonial Farm (former living history museum)

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Claude Moore Colonial Farm was a living history museum in Virginia that recreated the daily life of a small 18th-century tenant farm through costumed interpreters, period buildings, and historic agricultural practices.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic farm
living history museum
open-air museum
category Farms in Virginia
Former museums in Virginia
Living history museums in Virginia
Museums in Fairfax County, Virginia
Open-air museums in Virginia
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolvedOrClosed 2018
focusesOn daily life of a small tenant farm
formerName Turkey Run Farm
hasFeature bookstore
heritage livestock
kitchen garden
picnic areas
reconstructed farmhouse
tobacco field
visitor center
hasTheme 18th-century tenant farm life
inception 1973
locatedIn Fairfax County, Virginia
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Langley, Virginia
McLean
surface form: McLean, Virginia

Turkey Run Park area
Virginia
locatedOn federal land
namedAfter Claude Moore
offers 18th-century market fairs
educational programs
living history demonstrations
school tours
seasonal events
openedToPublic 1973
operatedBy Claude Moore Colonial Farm (former living history museum) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Friends of Claude Moore Colonial Farm
operationalStatus closed
ownedBy National Park Service
subjectOf local preservation efforts
timePeriodRecreated circa 1771
uses costumed interpreters
historic agricultural practices
period buildings
yearClosed 2018

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McLean hasLandmark Claude Moore Colonial Farm (former living history museum)
Claude Moore Colonial Farm (former living history museum) operatedBy Claude Moore Colonial Farm (former living history museum) self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Claude Moore Colonial Farm
this entity surface form: Friends of Claude Moore Colonial Farm
George Washington Memorial Parkway park system hasPart Claude Moore Colonial Farm (former living history museum)
subject surface form: George Washington Memorial Parkway
this entity surface form: Claude Moore Colonial Farm area (historic site, formerly managed)