WHO ARE WE?
The intention of the Cecil County Farm Museum & Regional Agricultural Center (CCFMRAC) is to serve as a Regional Agricultural Center for the tri-county area of Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s.  We envision the CCFMRAC as an Educational Center to showcase both our local and regional agricultural heritage.  CCFMRAC’s targeted, community involvement, includes people of all ages…elementary thru senior citizens.  CCFMRAC does sponsor several agricultural events each year as well as performing educational seminars and demonstrations at several Cecil County Schools.  We have a presence at the Cecil County Fair each year, and each Fall we host our largest event…our Heritage Day/Apple-Butter Festival.  Our 2019 attendance, for that one-day event, was approximately 900.   Other CCFMRAC sponsored events include Tractor Pulls, Plow Days and an Antique Machinery Day.  We also have a yearly presence actively participating at our annual Cecil County Fair. In January, 2018, we formed a working partnership with the Cecil County School of Technology (CCST).  We are a member of the Cecil County School of Technology’s (CCST) Ag Science Advisory Committee, the Cecil County Chamber of Commerce and work closely with our Cecil County Government, through their Office of Economic Development.  In 2019, the CCFMRAC, along with the Cecil County Public School System (CCPS), agreed to work together to develop a joint Ag Curriculum for elementary student field trips.  This has presented the CCFMRAC with a unique opportunity of collaborating with the the CCPS and CCST administration, instructors, and their many student programs, which would be vital to perpetuating the CCFMRAC.  The CCFMRAC has also partnered with our local 4-H clubs through our Cecil County Extension office.   We are now jointly developing an educational teaching curriculum incorporating the scope and sequence of their current “AGsploration” curriculum. 

In August, 2020, we legally changed our name to the Cecil County Farm Museum & Regional Agricultural Center (CCFMRAC).  This change reflects our vision, to act as a Regional Ag-education Hub, for Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties.   We believe collaboration, will better assist each of us in perpetuating our own local Agricultural Heritage.  The following list reflects some of the Regional Programs we wish to develop. 

• A tri-county Ag Advisory Committee.

• Rotating lecture (Guest Speaker) series.

• Minority group impacts on Regional Agriculture

• Amish life and their Ag impact to our Region

• Changes in the roles of youth in family farming operations

• Oral Histories, vintage photos, artifacts and stories reflecting farm life

• Multi-use of our site for other significant, educational events

The main demographics impacted by the development of a Museum and Regional Agricultural Center are:

• Students 8-18 within Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties private and public schools

• 4H clubs

• 16-18-year-old school students, enrolled in Ag Science and Natural Resources classes, and other Technology programs.

The CCFMRAC site is two miles off of the I-95 corridor, on the same property as the CCST (820 Appleton Road), just north of Elkton, Maryland.  Historically, this entire property was once part of a 1600’s William Penn Land Grant of 30,000 acres, known as the “Welsh Tract”.

CONTACT US
Our volunteer staff can be reached via email at:
info@ccfarmmuseum.org