Button Farm will be open Saturday, October 31, 2026 for the final day of the season. This is your last chance to see Wesley Wofford's moving sculpture, Tubman Journey to Freedom, depicting Harriet Tubman leading a child to freedom.
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Saturday, October 31, 2026, 12-3pm
Admission FREE!
Join Button Farm as we celebrate our annual Maryland Emancipation Day Event in commemoration of the day in 1864 when Maryland changed its constitution to abolish slavery six months before the end of the Civil War. The program will feature our self-guided Rooted Wisdom Walk tour including our museum garden, heritage breed animals, exhibits and slave cemetery. Snacks and cider provided!
A log cabin, to be reconstructed in this field in 2023-24, will serve as the focal point of our 1850s Farm.
Depicting the private lives of enslaved people, inside of their own communities, the Quarter experience will reveal African American practices and traditions in the years before freedom came.