Butterfly Week

Family friendly educational activities all week, changing daily. Check in at the Visitor Center. All activities are rain or shine. Bring a picnic lunch! Become a Citizen Scientist during Butterfly…

Butterfly Week

Family friendly educational activities all week, changing daily. Check in at the Visitor Center. All activities are rain or shine. Bring a picnic lunch! Become a Citizen Scientist during Butterfly…

Barn Bash & Craft Beer Tasting

Craft Beers, Local BBQ, Live Music and More! A fun night out with live music, beer  and dancing! Our good friends Sunny Malhotra of Taphouse 1637/Bollywood Masala and Josh Peeling of…

Labor Day

Our site will be closed on  Monday, September 2 in observance of Labor Day.

Home School Day

"Slavery To Freedom" - students learn to appreciate what the life of an American enslaved family was like, who lived and labored at Sotterley during the Civil War.  Hands-on activities.…

2019 Speaker Series: Spy Pilot

SPY PILOT Gary Powers, Jr. - Author, Historian One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by his…

Birdwalk “Birding the Fields & Trails”

Experience the beauty of fall on a birding excursion on Historic Sotterley’s scenic and historic Patuxent River property. Bald Eagles, migrant songbirds, lingering meadowlarks, sparrows and waterfowl can be found…