About

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.

A mid-sized farm surveyed on the then western frontier by an 18-year old George Washington in 1750, the farm was created by the generation of the American Revolution but its story 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 African Americans who built a community on Clermont land.