Name: Twilight Tours – From Shadows to Pride
Start: 2026-06-29T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-29T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Oatlands

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Visit Oatlands

Explore a historic landscape where you can visit the 1804 mansion, wander gardens and trails, and uncover stories of freedom, community, and change through tours, events, and educational experiences.

Plan Your Visit

Maps & Directions

Groups

Events

Tour the Mansion

Tour the Mansion and learn about the history of Oatlands with one of our knowledgeable guides..

Oatlands Mansion photograph by Pat and Chuck Blackley

Reclaim Your Story

Learn about all who have shaped this historic site.

Explore Garden & Grounds

Hike the trails or walk the 4 1/2 acre historic walled garden and discover secret places, beautiful flowers, and majestic vistas.

Professional Photography

Bring your clients to Oatlands and find exceptional backgrounds for your professional photography sessions.

Welcome to Oatlands

A National Treasure

in the heart of Loudoun County

Founded in 1798 as a plantation and site of enslavement, Oatlands is a place of striking beauty and profound history. This land carries histories of Indigenous presence, of bondage and emancipation, of injustice and resilience. It has witnessed both the promise of freedom and the painful limits placed upon it.

Today, Oatlands holds space for memory and for possibility. Walk the gardens. Stand beneath the trees. Step inside these walls. They are silent witnesses to centuries of change. Within them are stories of freedom claimed, denied, and reimagined across generations.

We care for this land not only for what it reveals about our shared past, but for how it invites us into deeper understanding today. Across 418 acres of trails and historic spaces, you are welcomed to explore history—and your place within it. At Oatlands, history is lived, layered, and still unfolding.

We welcome you to be part of its next chapter!

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