Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill Farm

Plan Your Visit to Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill Farm

The primary feature of Oxon Cove Park is Oxon Hill Farm which operates as an actual working farm, representative of the early 20th century. You can see a farm house, barns, a stable, feed building, livestock buildings and a visitor activity barn. It exhibits basic farming principles and techniques as well as historical agricultural programs for urban people to develop an understanding of cropping and animal husbandry. From the 1890's until the 1950`s, Oxon Hill Farm was operated by patients from St. Elizabeth Hospital. It provided therapy as well as food for the patients at the institution. The land area varies from low flat river shoreline to high river terraces with intermediate rolling hills created by a reclaimed sanitary landfill which existed on the site until the mid-seventies.
Planning Your Visit

Oxon Cove Park covers a large area. It can take from a half-hour to several hours to see all of the animals and exhibits—more if you stop for lunch or a snack, spend extra time in an area of special interest, or talk with a park ranger. With award-winning exhibits, ...

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