Carroll County Farm Museum
Carroll County Farm Museum is a museum in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 231 m. Piney Mountain stands 524 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Landon C. Burns Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Old Main Streets passes 0.7 miles off. 41 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Carroll County Almshouse and Farm, also known as the Carroll County Farm Museum, is a historic farm complex located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. It consists of a complex of 15 buildings including the main house and dependencies. The 30-room brick main house was originally designed and constructed for use as the county almshouse. It is a long, three-story, rectangular structure, nine bays wide at the first- and second-floor levels of both front and rear façades. It features a simple frame cupola sheltering a farm bell. A separate two-story brick building with 14 rooms houses the original summer kitchen, wash room, and baking room, and may have once housed farm and domestic help. Also on the property is a brick, one-story dairy with a pyramidal roof dominated by a pointed finial of exaggerated height with Victorian Gothic "icing" decorating the eaves; a large frame and dressed stone bank barn; and a blacksmith's shop, spring house, smokehouse, ice house, and numerous other sheds and dependencies all used as a part of the working farm museum activities. The original Carroll County Almshouse was founded in 1852 and the Farm Museum was established in 1965. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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Dates from 1966.
Wikidata Q5046532, matched on coordinates and name (78 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 231 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 0.7 mi off the Old Main Streets
- 2.3 mi off the Mason and Dixon Byway
- 8.4 mi off the Horses and Hounds Scenic Byway
- 11.6 mi off the Falls Road
Overlooks nearby
- McKeldin Falls · 15 mi
- Cliff overlooking Quarry Lake · 16 mi
- Gasline Cut · 17 mi
- Oregon Ridge · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Landon C. Burns Park: 0.1 mi
- Winchester Park: 0.3 mi
- Westminster City Park Playground & Fields: 1.1 mi
- Westminster Veterans Memorial Park: 1.1 mi
- Kate Wagner Fields: 1.2 mi
- Mary Shellman's Legacy: 0.9 mi
- Votes For Women: 0.9 mi
- Corbit's Charge: 0.9 mi
- Army of the Potomac: 1.0 mi
- Army of the Potomac: 1.0 mi
- Wild Imaginings: 1.2 mi
- The Luna Moth Project: 6.2 mi
- The Last Samurai: 18.0 mi
- Maryland in Blue and Gray: 18.0 mi
- Sacred Heart of Jesus Statue: 18.1 mi
- Union Mills Reservoir Area: 6.9 mi
- Hahn Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 7.0 mi
- Spiegle Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 7.9 mi
- Charlotte's Quest Nature Center: 9.7 mi
- Baltimore County Department of Public Works: 10.2 mi
- Cockey's: 0.9 mi
- Kimmey House: 0.9 mi
- Sherman-Fisher-Shellman House: 0.9 mi
- Bear Branch Nature Center: 6.2 mi
- Hampstead Train Station: 8.3 mi
- Adventure Nursery: 16.3 mi
- Kids Garden: 16.8 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 16.8 mi
- Filbert/Diller Corner Garden: 16.9 mi
- Community Garden: 16.9 mi
- The Bunker: 9.1 mi
- Dover Hill: 11.2 mi
- Carroll County Highpoint: 11.4 mi
- Beecher Hill: 14.2 mi
- Spook Hill: 15.7 mi
- Fort Roller: 13.9 mi
- Raven's Logo: 14.0 mi
- Hemlock Gorge: 14.8 mi
- Irvine Nature Center Native American Site: 15.4 mi
- Dinner Theatre: 17.3 mi
- Cape Horn Picnic Grove: 8.5 mi
- Timber Tent: 17.3 mi
- Pecos Tent: 17.3 mi
- Nordic Grove: 17.4 mi
- Pickall Area: 20.8 mi
- Setters Formation: 18.6 mi
- \: 19.4 mi
- Friction Wall: 23.0 mi
- Quarry (former): 23.1 mi
- Quarry (former): 23.3 mi
- Koontz Spring: 12.9 mi
- Spangler's Spring: 21.3 mi
- Menchey’s Spring: 21.9 mi
- Katelysine Spring: 23.8 mi
- Mountain Pass Spring: 24.6 mi
- Truck Rest Area: 16.8 mi
- Mason-Dixon Welcome Center: 19.9 mi
- Daniels: 19.2 mi
- Harmony Grove: 22.7 mi
- McKeldin Falls: 15.4 mi
- Sachs Covered Bridge: 22.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Carroll County Farm Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piney Mountain | WNW 288° | 524 m | 23.9 mi |
| College Mountain | WNW 295° | 520 m | 22.1 mi |
| Round Top | WNW 292° | 520 m | 23.0 mi |
| Carrick Knob | WNW 294° | 495 m | 22.4 mi |
| Wertenbaker Hill | WNW 292° | 493 m | 24.6 mi |
| Cat Rock | W 280° | 476 m | 24.5 mi |
| Derr Hill | WNW 295° | 454 m | 23.8 mi |
| Chimney Rock | WNW 282° | 432 m | 23.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:59 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 16:05 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hanover 4 SW, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/367799334
Day trips start here
- Westminster · 1 mi
- Sykesville · 13 mi
- Owings Mills · 15 mi
- Hanover · 17 mi
- Cockeysville · 19 mi
- Sparks Glencoe · 19 mi
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