Government Farm Rd., Oxon Hill, Maryland. County/parish: Prince George's.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 02, 2003. NRIS 03000869.
10 contributing buildings. 8 contributing sites. 5 contributing structures.Also known as:
Oxon Cove Park is a 485 acre large national historic district with portions in Prince George's County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. operated by the National Park Service as part of National Capital Parks-East. It includes a living farm museum, Oxon Cove Farm, located at Oxon Hill in the Maryland portion of the park. The other 220 acres of the site are former landfill.
The park is a resource for environmental studies, wildlife observing, fishing, and other recreational activities made possible by easy access to the Potomac River. Fourteen buildings and two structures are located in the historic district and associated with the property's sequential development as a plantation, an institutional agricultural complex, and a farm museum.
It is bounded by Interstate 295 on the south, Indian Head Highway on the east and the District of Columbia on the north.
The 289 acre farm portion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106778012