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The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
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Button Farm Living History Museum Tour

Tour Guide: Tony Cohen, founder and president, The Menare Foundation

Visit Maryland’s only hands-on history center depicting 19th century slave plantation life and the inspirational story of the Underground Railroad. Explore the daily operations of farm life in the 1850s through a variety of sensory experiences. Unearth the period when enslaved labor shaped the landscape and modern agricultural technology had not yet been developed.