Claude Moore Colonial Farm, National Park Service Extend Cooperative Agreement

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA -- Claude Moore Colonial Farm and the National Park Service are extending their cooperative agreement for the 70-acre living history museum and National Park, the Farm announced this week.

Originally established in 1972 by the National Park Service, under the Legacy-of-the-Parks program, the farm portrays everyday life and work of colonists in late 18th century Virginia, just prior to the American Revolution.

Originally named Turkey Run Farm when it opened as a National Park Service operation, it was renamed in for local land developer, Dr. Claude Moore, whose large donation at the time of his death allowed the farm park to establish itself as the only autonomous site in the park system.

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As a privately operated and funded national park, the Claude Moore Colonial Farm is managed by the nonprofit organization, the Friends of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run. The Farm and the National Park Service have mutually agreed to extend the current agreement, which expires on Sept. 30, 2016, for one year while the terms of a longer term arrangement are negotiated.

The Claude Moore Colonial Farm has welcomed more than 2 million visitors within the Washington, DC area as well as from across the United States and around the world.

PHOTO of Colonial Market Fair courtesy of Claude Moore Colonial Farm