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Perched on a hill overlooking the Champlain Valley, Rokeby Museum
provides an intimate record of two centuries of Vermont family life
and agriculture. It's a National Landmark, set on a 90-acre historic
site, that tells a story of 200 years of New England social history
from the 1790s to 1961.
Rokeby Museum Highlights:
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Over 50 acres of hiking
trails open year round until sundown |
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200 years of landmark
history and four family generations |
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A variety of ways to
view the Rokeby museum site |
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Museum sponsored
special events to experience |
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School programs for
children grades four through eight |
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An Essay telling the
story, in detail, of the Underground Railroad |
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Original paintings and
hundreds of family letters displayed
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Rokeby Museum is a National Landmark, and
90-acre historic site, located in Ferrisburgh, Vermont. By
mid-nineteenth century it was one of the most prosperous farms in the
Champlain Valley, and the traces of its past are clearly marked on the
landscape; the pastures where sheep, and later dairy cattle grazed, and
the orchards and hayfields that are crossed today by walking trails.
With roots in seventeenth-century Rhode Island, Thomas and Jemima Robinson
staked their claim in Vermont, just after it became a state in 1791, and
remained central members of their community until the site became a museum
in 1961.
Over the years, they welcomed a large and diverse extended family of
relatives, friends, fugitive slaves, and domestic and farm workers into
their home. It was here, that Rowland Thomas Robinson, provided fugitive
slaves with the employment and education needed to start new lives.
The house and farm nurtured and survived the growing up and growing old of
four generations of Robinsons; a remarkable family of farmers,
abolitionists, authors, and artists. The site includes a fully furnished
house and eight outbuildings, all of which are open to view.
Buy your eTicket today for Rokeby Museum and prepare to experience 200
years of New England history, like never before. Imagine how the
Robinson's lived, worked and survived through four generations, as you
walk along the hiking trails, stroll past the old creamery and listen to
stories of centuries past. |
