Here are some Field Trips we presented as great ideas at the Nov. 2002 meeting.

If there is a web site available just click on the underlined name to go there for more information.  I have tried to ascertain the cost of these places but please double check.  It hasn't been easy to find out at some sites.

Around:

Army Medical Museum at Walter Reed
(free)
202-782-2200

Calvert Cliffs State Park
Maryland Routes 2 & 4 ($5 per car)

Croydon Creek Nature Center   (free)

Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run
6310 Georgetown Pike
McLean, Va.   (small charge for those in groups)
703-442-7557

Fort Frederick
11100 Fort Frederick Road
Big Pool, MD (near Hagerstown) (free most of the time)
(301) 842-2155

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

March Through Time and other Living History events
at the Marietta House  in Glenn Dale, MD

Montgomery County Historical Society's Directory of Historical Resources
This includes a lot of good sites and ideas and phone numbers.  
Such as; 
Seneca Schoolhouse
Sandy Spring Slave Museum
Nat. Capital Trolley Museum
FDR Living Museum
Gaithersburg Model Railroad Society

National Cryptologic Museum
95 to Rt. 32  Fort Meade  (free)
301-688-5849 

Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery
18524 Brooke Road, Sandy Spring
301-384-0727

in Washington, DC:

DAR Museum
1776 D St., NW  (free)
202-879-3239

National Aquarium
14th St. and Constitution Ave. NW  (low $)
202-482-2825 
(2pm Fri. juv. alligators get their weekly feeding)

National Arboretum
3501 New York Ave. NE  (free)
202-245-2726

National Building Museum
401 F St., NW  (free, donation suggested)
202-272-2448

National Gallery of Art
(free)

National Postal Museum
2 Mass. Ave.  (free)
202-633-9360

Naval Historical Center WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
805 Kidder Breese SE  (free and wonderful)
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Renwick Art Gallery
Pen. Ave. at 17th St., NW  (free)
202-275-1693

Spy Museum
800 F St., NW  ($, but I've heard it's worth it)
202-EYE-SPY-U

US Holocaust Mem. Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl., SW  (free)
202-488-0400

White House Visitor Center
President's Park
1100 Ohio Drive, SW
Washington, D.C.  20242
202-208-1631

in Baltimore, MD:

Baltimore Museum of Industry
1415 Key Highway (exit 55 off of I-95)  ($)
410-727-4808

Fort McHenry
There are so many additional great sites to see on this place I suggest you do a Google search.
2400 East Fort Ave. (exit 55 off of I-95)  (park fee)
410-962-4299

National Aquarium in Baltimore  ($)

Walters Art Museum  
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
General Information: 410-547-9000, (adults $8, 17 & under free, 1st Thurs. all free)

Maryland Historical Society
Museum and workshops ($)
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21201