Blue Ridge Farm Museum Interpretation

FAIN: GM-10813-76

Ferrum College (Ferrum, VA 24088-2611)
Roderick Moore (Project Director: September 1976 to present)

To establish a farm museum known as the Blue Ridge Farm Museum" involving a central museum exhibition building and three ethnic era farm villages: Genian (circa 1800), Scotch-Irish (circa 1850), and a tobacco farm (circa 1900). The museum will provide a humanities - oriented interpretation of its exhibits which include buildings, furnishings, farm equipment, and "live" exhibits of blacksmithing, spinning and weaving, raising related crops and farm animals.