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 Week! Count Sotterley's caterpillars and butterflies.  Read stories about amazing and resilient caterpillars, moths and other insects; see and observe caterpillars and butterflies up close. …

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 Week! Count Sotterley's caterpillars and butterflies.  Read stories about amazing and resilient caterpillars, moths and other insects; see and observe caterpillars and butterflies up close. …

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 Week! Count Sotterley's caterpillars and butterflies.  Read stories about amazing and resilient caterpillars, moths and other insects; see and observe caterpillars and butterflies up close. …

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 Week! Count Sotterley's caterpillars and butterflies.  Read stories about amazing and resilient caterpillars, moths and other insects; see and observe caterpillars and butterflies up close. …

UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition August 23rd | 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. As a UNESCO Slave Route Site of Remembrance, Historic Sotterley invites the public to this important day by honoring the memories of those that perished and survived the trans-Atlantic slave trade. We remember the…

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 The Hole In The Wall, are coming up with the beer menu!     VIP tickets 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm         …

2019 Speaker Series: Historic Preservation and Place-based Teaching

HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND PLACE-BASED TEACHING: The Importance of Knowing our History and Culture in Order to Preserve our Democratic Republic O. James Lighthizer - President of the American Battlefield Trust For the past 20 years, Lighthizer has been responsible for the preservation of battlefield sites involved in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and…

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. 10:30 am & 1:30 pm : Kitchen and laundry work at the Spinning Cottage 10:30 am & 1:30 pm:  Slave Cabin Life at the Slave…