McLean, VA: Claude Moore Colonial Farm To Close Amid Park Service Dispute
MCLEAN, Va. — A colonial-style farm in northern Virginia is slated to close amid a years long dispute with the National Park Service.
The Washington Post reports the nonprofit group that manages Claude Moore Colonial Farm on federal land rejected an agreement offered by the National Park Service that would have initiated increased oversight.
The farm and Park Service had clashed over the farm's funding and a 2015 report that questioned the farm's maintenance, safety practices and financial relationships with private contractors.
A Park Service statement from this summer says the terms offered were "standard for thousands of national park partners across the country." Claude Moore Director Elliott Curzon asserted the terms onerous "bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo."
The 77-acre (31-hectare) living-history museum dedicated to depicting lower-class colonial life will close Friday, barring a last-minute agreement. Information from: The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com
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WIKI. Claude Moore Colonial Farm, originally Turkey Run Farm, is a U.S. park in Virginia recreating and reenacting life on a tenant farm c. 1771. The Friends of Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run Inc., a privately funded foundation, pays for all activities on the farm, while the land is owned by the NPS. They receive only certain maintenance tasks from the Park Service.[1] The Farm is located in Langley, Virginia, a suburb of McLean, Virginia, next to the George Bush Center for Intelligence and the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. Market Fair events are held at the park.
The mission of Turkey Run is to recreate the life of 1771 tenant farmers. The vast majority of Virginians in 1771 were tenant farmers who grew tobacco to pay their rent and grew food to eat. By contrast, Colonial Williamsburg demonstrates the life of the small upper crust, merchants and landowners...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Moore_Colonial_Farm
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