Contact: Media Contact:
Felicia Hart
fahart@adelphia.net
Phone: (540) 533-5561

Leesburg, VA. 09/23/05... This year Morven Park is proud and excited to announce its upcoming fall tours and exhibits at Historic Morven Park.

Special personalized, guided tours include:

Flags, Flasks and Flu:
My Experiences in Richmond
October 1-2, 9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-30 - 2:00 pm
Adults $5, Children $3 - purchase tickets at the Coach House Visitors Center
703/777-6034

Experience a 1922 garden walk with Mrs. Westmoreland Davis - wife of Virginia's World War 1-era governor. Explore the life and times of Virginia's First Lady Marguerite Davis in this 1920s living history program.

Tales from Morven Park
October 30 Only - 7:30 pm
Adults $5, Children $3
Reservations required - 703/777-6034

Participate in a nighttime lantern-lit walking tour of Morven Park. Explore our historical baggage and best stories - including inexplicable experiences that have happened to staff when alone in the house. Meet in the big parking lot.

Fighting & Frolicking:
The Civil War Comes to Morven Park
November 5-6, 12-13, 19-20 and 26-27 only - 2:00 pm
Adults $5, Children $3 - purchase tickets at the Coach House Visitors Center
703/777-6034

Visit replicas of log huts built by 17th Mississippi soldiers during the Civil War and learn of the story of their stay at Morven Park in the winter of 1861-62 following the nearby Battle at Ball's Bluff in October 1861 and the cavalry skirmish on the property at Mile Hill in September 1862.

And join us for our new Morven Park History Tour…

From Swann's Castle to Governor's Mansion:
Exploring an Old Southern Estate
Weekends only
October 1 - November 27, 2005 - 12:00 - 4:00 pm
Monday through Friday by appointment only
Adults $5, Children $1 - purchase tickets at the Coach House Visitors Center
703/777-6034

Learn of the transition of the 19th century plantation of Thomas Swann, Jr., Governor of Maryland, into the early 20th century farm and hunt country estate of Virginia Governor Westmoreland Davis. Your personalized, guided tour includes a look at the exterior of the Greek Revival Mansion as it undergoes extensive historic restoration, a visit to replica log huts of Confederate soldiers who lived on the property during the Civil War and the exhibit "A Symbol of the New South: Governor and Mrs. Westmoreland Davis."

Winmill Carriage Collection
Weekends only
October 1 - November 27, 2005 - 12:00 - 4:00 pm
Monday through Friday by appointment only
Adults $5, Children $1 - purchase tickets at the Coach House Visitors Center
703/777-6034

Named for Viola Townsend Winmill of Warrenton, the museum includes carriages she collected during her lifetime. On your personalized, guided tour, you'll see a wide variety of antique horse-drawn vehicles from the mid-1800s and the early 1900s featured in this unique collection. Included in the exhibit are a Hansom Cab, a miniature coach belonging to Tom Thumb of Barnum & Bailey Circus, a 19th century hearse, a Silsby Steam Pumper and many others.