Visitor Exhibits

The Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

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Mulched
paths available

A heritage breed chicken stands to welcome guests at the main house door

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A homeschool program offers students the chance to interpret to the public and learn historical skills

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An indentured servant is preparing a meal in the main room of the hose at the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

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Heritage breed chickens wander freely at the plantation

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Meet heritage breed animals at the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

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School Tours at the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

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School Tours at the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

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The Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

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Take a glimpse back in time to 1667

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Staff at the Godiah Spray Tobacco plantation are inspecting the tobacco plants for insects that eat the plants

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The kitchen garden is filled with seasonal color

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Tickseed sunflowers have been gathered for hundreds of years to be used in dyes to dye fabric a golden shade of yellow

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Visit the home of the Spray family at the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

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Weeding in the Garden at the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

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Visitor Exhibits

The Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation

Overview
The Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation, Bringing the Farm to Life

Meet and converse with members of the Spray household (and maybe a neighbor or two) as you step back in time and explore a working 1st-person plantation set in the year 1667. This site, its structures, fields, cows, pigs, chickens, and inhabitants represent life as it was during the heyday of tobacco culture in colonial Maryland.

We invite you to discover how different and similar the Spray plantation is from American Civil War plantations. Remember, everyone has a story to tell and the Spray Family, their servants and neighbors are no different. Experience seasonal activities at the Godiah Spray Plantation such as:
- 17th-Century Agricultural Practices (corn and tobacco)
- Hearth Cooking
- Woodworking
- Herb Gardening
Only service animals are allowed at this exhibit area. No pets, please.
Handicap Access Smoking Not Allowed Parking Available
Accessibility
- Wheelchairs can navigate the paths to the tobacco barns, main house, & tenant house
- Paths are unpaved, but contain hard dirt or gravel surfaces
- Wheelchairs can access the tobacco barns & tenant house
- Wheelchairs cannot get inside the main house; however, visitors in chairs can look into the kitchen from either kitchen door & the main room is viewable from the garden door
- Photo album of the main house interiors is available upon request of the Plantation staff
- Social Narrative for General Visitors
- Social Narrative for Family Visitors

0.5
miles drive from the Visitor Center
1.1
miles drive from Farthing’s
0.16
miles walk from the parking lot
Mulched
paths available

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18751 Hogaboom Lane
St. Mary's City , MD 20686

https://www.hsmcdigshistory.org

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