Meadow Farm Museum at Crump Park is located in Glen Allen, Henrico County, Virginia. Meadow Farm is a 150-acre living history site that showcases 19th-century Virginia rural life. The site features the 1810 farmhouse of the Sheppard family and reconstructed dependencies. The site covers Indigenous history, history of those enslaved there and the Sheppard family who owned Meadow Farm. The site is also linked to the 1800 slave revolt known as Gabriel’s Rebellion. One of the enslaved people of owner Mosby Sheppard informed him of the plot, and he in turn was able to get a letter to Governor James Monroe, informing him of the plot. As a living history museum, Meadow Farm holds year round events demonstrating seasonal activities in the farmhouse, kitchen, doctor’s office, and blacksmith and carpentry shops through costumed historic interpreters. For more information, visit Meadow Farm Museum at Crump Park ยป Henrico County, Virginia. The Parsons Community Center houses three permanent exhibits on the Indigenous who traversed the surrounding lands, Gabriel’s Rebellion, and the Parsons family who were enslaved by the Sheppard family.
Farmhouse history, and the Sheppard’s and Crump’s
Indigenous history panels
Enslaved Mural
Parson family exhibit panels
Gabriel’s Rebellion Exhibit
Artifact and document exhibit cases
