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Weems–Botts Museum, Dumfries, VA

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Weems–Botts Museum

A historic house museum in Dumfries, Virginia, offering guided tours of an 18th-to-20th-century home in Merchant Park.

Dumfries, VA

About Weems–Botts Museum

The Weems-Botts Museum is a historic house museum in Merchant Park at the corner of Duke and Cameron Streets in Dumfries. Guided walk-in tours move through rooms decorated in several centuries' styles and cover the port town's role in Virginia history, along with nearby structures and Dumfries Cemetery. The operating nonprofit, Historic Dumfries Virginia, also runs a research library and archive in an annex building, hosts seasonal educational programs and special events, and rents the park for private gatherings.

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  • #guided tour
  • #colonial port history
  • #Merchant Park
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