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It's National Coffee Day! This menu is a souvenir

It's National Coffee Day! This menu is a souvenir keepsake Mrs. Eustis kept from a trip to Paris in 1947! 🗼 #VirginiaFoodies know Oatlands is nearby numerous yummy coffee shops in Historic Downtown Leesburg. What is your favorite kind of coffee to pair with history tour? Do you have a favorite coffee shop?
☕#NationalCoffeeDay #LeesburgFoodies #LoudounFoodies #LeesburgCoffee #DowntownLeesburg #VisitLoudoun 📍🚙

Here we have 2 year old Margie Eustis by French ar

Here we have 2 year old Margie Eustis by French artist Rene Joseph Gilbert, and once again, aged 32, Margaret Eustis Finley in a stunning portrait completed by Philip de Laszlo.
#FacetoFaceFriday #HistoricHome #EustisFamily #OatlandsMansion #Portrait #Art

In 2020, the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) Trai

In 2020, the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) Trail at Oatlands supported 10 nest boxes! Eight boxes are on the south side of the property and two boxes are on the ridge by the silo. Eastern Bluebirds are considered a grassland species, making Oatlands’ meadows and shrub habitats an important ecosystem for these beautiful little birds, who are year-round Loudoun County residents. When driving in and out of Oatlands, you often see them perched on the fences lining the driveway hunting insects. 🦗🐜
#oatlandstrails #historicproperty #conservation #preservation #bluebirds

Looking for an ideal location to celebrate #Hobbit

Looking for an ideal location to celebrate #HobbitDay? Come out to Oatlands and find peace in the Shire-like setting. Pack your own elevenses (and luncheon!) and your favorite Tolkien book to enjoy on the grounds. 🧝‍♂️(Visit our website for your Daily Grounds Pass)

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🥳Guess who had a birthday this weekend?...On th

🥳Guess who had a birthday this weekend?...On this #selfieSunday we'd like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Morton Eustis. Morton was enjoying life in NYC, working as a musician and playwright until WWII broke out. He took this selfie while he served in WWII.
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He joined the 101st Cavalry Regiment, New York National Guard. A couple of years later, he joined the Army Air Corps, until he went to Officer Candidate School. Morton joined the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Second Armored Division, under General Patton in Sicily.

🍏🍎It’s #EatAnAppleDay! We encourage you to

🍏🍎It’s #EatAnAppleDay! We encourage you to enjoy any kind of juicy apple. Here’s a recipe for Boiled Apple Pudding from the Carter cookbook 👉Copies soon to be available for purchase! 🥰🍎🍏
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Boiled Apple Pudding...
😋Make a good paste. Roll it out ½ inch thick – Pare + cut apples enough to fill your crust – Close it up – tie it in a cloth + boil it (If a small pudding 2 hours – a large one 3 or 4). When done, work it into a disk – Cut a piece out of the top – put in butter + sugar to your taste, if you please a little cinnamon – Lay on the crust again + send to table hot – Cherries, damsons, &c. May be done in the same way – Apple dumplings if large will take 1 hour to boil them.

It's #NationalFirstLoveDay. Be careful out there!

It's #NationalFirstLoveDay. Be careful out there! #gibsongirl

You may be familiar with Downton Abbey’s servant

You may be familiar with Downton Abbey’s servants call system--a resident of the house pulls a cord, and somewhere below stairs a bell rings and a servant knows they are needed and where.

Here at Oatlands, we have an upgraded system--an electric servants call box. A must-have in the modern smart house. The buttons to summon a servant on the third floor are labeled SH for Servants Hall. The buttons to summon a servant in the basement level are labeled PH for Pantry Hall. When a button in one of the rooms was pressed, a light would come on in the call box and a bell would ring. Our call boxes were made by the F.W. Leanhardt Company of Washington, D. C. and were patented on February 20, 1894.
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Oatlands Originals Blog

Oatlands in the Major League

black and white photo of the two-story Bacelor's Cottage in 1951

Oral History – Working at Oatlands

An overhead shot of the walled garden

Revitalizing The Oatlands Garden

Remembering the Enslaved of Oatlands

Commodore Charles Morris

Morton Eustis in WWII uniform

Morton Eustis in World War II

Foxcroft Basketball Team

A Foxcroft Tradition at Oatlands

Margaret Eustis Finley

Answering the Call to Volunteer

Young Edith Morton

The Roosevelt Connection

Eastern Rat Snake

“I may have exagerated a little about the snakes”

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