Clermont Farm

Scheduled public events, groups and individual tours by appointment.  Call 540-955-0102 to arrange a tour.  Clermont gives 90 minute tours on historical highlights and lastest projects on the third Saturday of each month (seasonally) from 1:30 – 3:00 pm. Clermont hosts a variety of cultural events in celebration of the VA-250 throughout the year.

The Clermont Foundation preserves the cultural landscape of historic Clermont Farm in the Shenandoah Valley, in partnership with its owner, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR).

The Foundation uses the farm’s many historic buildings and 360-acre working cattle and sheep operation to promote public education and engagement with agriculture, history, and historic preservation.

Surveyed on the colonial western frontier by an 18-year old George Washington in 1750, the farm was created by the generation of the American Revolution. Its story, however, is the story of a changing America down to the present day, and of all the peoples associated with the site, including Native Americans, enslaved Africans, and freed African Americans who built a community called Josephine City on Clermont land, now located in the Town of Berryville.