The “Fire House” at the Carroll County Farm Museum

The "Fire House" at the Carroll County Farm Museum, Westminster, Md. http://carrollcountyfarmmuseum.org #july4th2017

Oxen driving demo on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster Tuesday, August 18, 2015.

Oxen driving demo on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster Tuesday, August 18, 2015.

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/09/oxen-driving-demo-on-grounds-of-carroll.html

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/multimedia/photogalleries/ph-cc-oxen-driving-premiumvideo.html

By Michel Elben Carroll County Times contact the reporter

With firm commands, Don Hoff and Karen Butler guided the Carroll County Farm Museum's team of oxen around the yard Tuesday as the two beasts of burden pulled a large tire behind them.

Jack and Jim, a pair of 3-year-old Devon oxen, were donated by the museum's Hoff Barn Committee. The team, with the guidance of drivers, will demonstrate what farm life was like in the 1790s, according to Bob Shirley, education chair for the Hoff Barn Committee.

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/local/ph-cc-oxen-driver-demo-20150818-story.html

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Carroll County Farm Museum Fall Harvest Days October 19 & 20, 2013

Fall Harvest Days

http://ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/releases/10.7.13%20-%20Fall%20Harv.pdf

Westminster, Maryland, October 7, 2013 – The Carroll County Farm Museum will be presenting its 48th year of the Fall Harvest Days on October 19 & 20, 2013. 

Come and bring the family to listen to the bluegrass, country music entertainment, traditional autumn activities which may include apple butter making, farm machinery demonstrations, tractor and mule pulled wagon rides. Children and adults roll up your sleeves to make a scarecrow to take home, $10.00 ea. or $8.00 if you bring your own clothes.

A children’s costume parade and contest will be held on Sunday only at 1:45 p.m., and children’s games will be on-going throughout both days.

Entertainment is as follows:

Saturday, The Footnotes, Aspen Run, Hep Cats, and The Jock-ular Juggler

Sunday, Charles James Magician, Bootleg, Appalachian Countdown, Carroll County Cloggers

General Admission:  Adults $5.00; Age 7-18 and 60+ $4.00; 6 & under FREE with paying adult

Country food and crafts for sale, Farmhouse tours; Living History Center, exhibit buildings, and Museum Gift Shop open.  Museum season passes are honored.

The Board of County Commissioners sponsors these and other activities at the Carroll County Farm Museum through Recreation and Parks. The Farm Museum is located at 500 South Center Street, Westminster, MD.  For more information, visit http://ccgovernment.carr.org/recreation.

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Potters Field 1850s to 1960s. The cemetery for the Carroll County Almshouse

The Community Reporter, April 19, 1974: Carroll County Plans Its Own Special Festival

Carroll County Plans Its Own Special Festival

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The Community Reporter, April 19, 1974.

Annual Festival To Be Held For One Day Only This Year, On May 11th—Plans are now being made for "Carroll County Celebrate" 1974, the third annual special festival sponsored by the Carroll County Arts Council and the Farm Museum.

In previous years the festival has been held for an entire weekend in June. This year the committee has decided to hold the event for one day only — Saturday, May 11, from 10: a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

Admission for this event will be at a special carload rate of only $3.00.

The Community Reporter, April 19, 1974.

19740419 Carroll County Plans Its Own Special Festival

Carroll County Farm Museum Cookbook

[The first ten years: Carroll County Farm Museum

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A Tomato Convocation in Westminster By Bob Allen

A Tomato Convocation in Westminster By Bob Allen

I’m a big fan of old varieties of plants and I’m Patuxent writer Bob Allen’s biggest fan – although I remain jealous over the huge novella word limits he is given by our editor, but that is the stuff of another column. On second thought, maybe not.

A Tomato Convocation in Westminster

http://explorecarroll.com/community/710/tomato-convocation/

Heirlooms are ripe for celebration By Bob Allen ballen@patuxent.com

Posted 8/24/08

The mouthwatering magic and savory mystique of heirloom tomatoes was celebrated in Carroll County last week at a lively, tomato-inspired confabulation of food, fun and horticultural education and tomato lore.

If there had been a gaudy neon marquee advertising the Carroll County Master Gardeners' annual Heirloom Tomato Festival, it might have flashed:

"TOMATOES! TOMATOES!
NOTHING BUT...
HEIRLOOM! HEIRLOOM!
ALL THE TIME!"

Held at the Saturday, Aug. 16, Carroll County Farmers Market, the sixth annual festival was a spirited gathering of tomatoes and the people who love them, grow them, cook with them, talk about them and celebrate their merits.
But these were not just any tomatoes on parade.

In fact, the mere mention of store-bought hybrids (often distinguished by bland taste, pallid complexion and cardboard-like pulpiness) was met by good-natured disdain.

To most master gardeners, the only kind of tomato worthy of salt, vinegar, garlic, basil, olive oil and salad dressing is a genuine, home-grown heirloom.

Indeed, heirlooms are the true hall of famers of the tomato world.

[…]

An heirloom is a pure-bred tomato that has been established and kept true to its specific variety, with its gene pool unsullied by hybridization for least 50 years.

The master gardeners on hand at the Heirloom Tomato Festival provided fresh, juicy samples of the colorful-looking and even more colorfully named array of heirlooms from their back yard and side lot tomato patches -- Goliaths, Bullhearts, Hillbillies, Blackrims, Siberians, German Greens, German Johnsons, Aunt Rubies, Belgian Pinks, Brandywines, Polish Linguisas and a host of others.

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All proceeds went to a special agriculture education scholarship fund set up by Carroll County Master Gardeners.

Maryanne Turner, president of Carroll County Master Gardeners, the local chapter of the state-wide volunteer training program coordinated by the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension, was doling out bite-sized samples of her green tomato pie, which were gobbled nearly as quickly as she could scoop them into little paper cups and put them on the counter.

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For more on the Master Gardeners program, or to learn how to get a copy of the tomato recipe booklet, call Steve Allgeier at the Carroll County Extension Office at 410-386-2760.

You can read the rest of Mr. Allen’s mouthwatering novella, complete with recipes, here: A Tomato Convocation in Westminster

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20080824 A Tomato Convocation in Westminster By Bob Allen

20080709 Excavation for historic Hoff Memorial Log Barn will begin next week

Excavation for the relocated historic Marlin K. Hoff Memorial Log Barn will begin next week

Related: Agriculture History Hoff Memorial Log Barn Carroll Co. MD

Below is a press release on behalf of the Hoff Memorial Barn Steering Committee:

News Release
For Immediate Release

July 9, 2008 – Excavation for the relocated historic Marlin K. Hoff Memorial Log Barn will begin next week, weather permitting, at the Carroll County Farm Museum.

Excavation and site preparation by C. J. Miller will be followed by construction of the stone foundation approximately a week later.

An observation area has been set up for interested people who want to view the work between the hours of 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2 p.m. daily, weather permitted. Observers are asked to stay in the designated area, which is posted with signs. Parking will be in the regular museum parking lot.

There may be a delay between the completion of the site preparation and the beginning of the stone foundation, due to contractor schedules.

The circa 1794 barn is made of hand-hewn log beams joined without nails or attachments. It is being dismantled at its original location outside of New Windsor, Maryland, and rebuilt as part of a permanent historic exhibit at the Carroll County Farm Museum. The Farm Museum is located at 500 South Center Street in Westminster, Maryland.

For more information, contact Bob Jones at 410-848-7687.
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20080709 Excavation for historic Hoff Memorial Log Barn will begin next week

20071207 Carrollton Hounds celebrate a “Blessing of the Hounds” at the Farm Museum

Carrollton Hounds celebrate a “Blessing of the Hounds” at the Farm Museum

December 1, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff – posted December 7^th, 2007

Carrollton Hounds Joint Master Bob Shirley gestures as the local foxhunting club unloaded their horses at the Carroll County Ag Center and prepared for a traditional “Blessing of the Hounds” at the Carroll County Farm Museum last Saturday afternoon. Photo by Kevin Dayhoff

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Westminster -- Last Saturday, December 1, members of the Carrollton Hounds foxhunting club appeared in their traditional “hunt” attire at the Farm Museum with their hounds for the 2007 Holiday Tour, “A Country Manor Christmas.”

There, they rode around the grounds, answered questions and posed for pictures. The holiday event featured Christmas merrymaking in a Victorian style.

The Farm Museum’s Holiday Tour continues next weekend, Dec. 7, 8, & 9. Guides in period attire are prepared to lead you through the six festively decorated rooms of the historic 1852 former Almshouse.

After a tour of the Almshouse, visitors can watch artisans create items which were necessary to everyday life in the 1800s. Activities include blacksmithing, tinsmithing, spinning, weaving, and open hearth cooking.

Families may also take a mule-drawn wagon ride around the grounds for an additional fee or visit with Santa in his Log House Fridays from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.; Saturdays, Noon-3 p.m. and 4:30-6:30 p.m.; and Sundays, 1-4 p.m.

The “Sleighbell Café” is available for lunch and the Museum Gift Shop is available for Christmas shopping.

Hours for “A Country Manor Christmas” are 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on Friday; Saturday, 10 a.m. until 7 p.m., and Sunday, 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. There is a $2.50 per person entrance fee, although children age 6 and under accompanied by a paying guest can come for free. For additional information call 410-386-3880 or visit www.carrollcountyfarmmuseum.org on the web.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA.

E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org

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For more information on the Carrollton Hounds:

Tom's Unofficial, Unauthorized Carrollton Hounds Page!

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5129/carrollton.html

Opening Day: Stirrup Cup and Blessing of the Hounds with the Carrollton Hounds

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5129/opening_day.html

Carroll County Public Library community organization listing for Carrollton Hounds:

Agency Name Carrollton Hounds, Inc.

http://community.carr.org/fullrecord.asp?record=423