Dillon Farm Museum

03/13/2026

A huge “THANK YOU” to all our Facebook supporters! We have reached 1,000 followers and we are so excited that the community is interested in the mission of this small, local non-profit who preserves and honors the agricultural heritage of the Eastern Panhandle.

Our major events this year will be:

Apr 4 - flea market
June 6-7 - spring show
Sep 19-20 - farm crawl
Oct 10-11 - fall festival

03/13/2026

We want to extend our deepest gratitude to the Tomahawk Ruritan Club for their generous donation of this special commemorative flag celebrating America’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Faith Hall presented the flag to the Dillon Farm Museum and Museum Vice President, Carol Criswell, accepted the gift on behalf of the board.

We hope to have a special flag raising at each of our festivals this year in honor of 250 years of freedom.

12/24/2025

The Dillon Farm Museum volunteers wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a safe and joyous New Year! We thank everyone for their support of the museum and our festivals in 2025 and look forward to seeing you in 2026!

12/11/2025

Dillon Farm Museum was proud to provide a wagon for the float used by the 2025 WV Dairy Princess Kasey Payne in both the Inwood/South Berkeley and Martinsburg Christmas Parades! Thanks so much to Daniel for his hard work and to Kasey for being the state’s ambassador for the dairy industry, promoting WV dairy products and honoring farm families! 🐄🐮🥛🍦🍨🧈🧀🎄❤️💚

11/26/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Dillon Farm Museum!

10/13/2025

Day two memories of our fall festival 2025.

Huge thank you to all who made this year’s event a success!

To all our vendors, demonstrators, and those who shared their steam engines, antique/vintage tractors, trucks, cars, mowers, farm equipment, etc. we thank you for your support and for spending your time with us this weekend.

We thank our food trucks, Cheesy Chucks and Gardner’s BBQ for their delicious food. We thank Pop Pop Soda Shop, Rachel’s Delights and the kettle korn vendor for being with us this year!

We thank our musicians New Way Drive and Jeff Fuss, you make our festivals festive & fun!

We thank all our volunteers for your incredible help! Special shout out to Richard, Joy & Jeremiah Campbell for their hard work at the apple cider press and for Joy’s unexpected run to Frederick to save the day by retrieving more lids for the cider jugs.

We thank Gary & Carol for manning the concessions for both days! Hard work and hours and hours on your feet!

We thank JD for his outstanding iron pot beans. A full pot was gone by 12:30 the first day! I personally enjoyed a bowl both days!

So many people involved to make an event this size work, the guys at the sawmill and the Mellots at the portable wood saw, the group in the blacksmith shop, Bob in the wood shop, Doug overseeing the raffles, Melissa coordinating the vendors this year and running her own jams & jellies booth, all the folks who ran the threshing machine, plowed and planted the field for next year, and brought out the portable Frick engine, John & Glennis at registrations, and my own son Tyler who volunteered for the first time at the festival and hand-cranked the cider press for a while. I apologize if I have left out anyone, everyone is important and your contributions valuable!!!

Thank you to the community for visiting us and supporting your local nonprofit farm museum, and shopping the small businesses that were represented here this weekend. We hope you had fun and visit us again!

10/11/2025

Today, longtime friend of the museum, volunteer and steam engine demonstrator, Richard Sine, was fondly remembered at our festival. He used to sit in this yellow chair waiting for trout to be stocked in a nearby pond, as he dearly loved to fish. Eric Custer and his wife brought “Richard’s chair” to the festival today in his memory.

10/11/2025

10/11/2025

Today has been a fantastic day at the Dillon Farm Museum Fall Festival! We are open until 4pm today and 9am-4pm Sunday. Come out and support your local farm history museum and enjoy this awesome community event!

10/10/2025

💸 Cash is King! 💸
A quick heads-up — some vendors, especially the food ones, are cash only, and there will be no ATM on site. Be sure to bring enough cash with you so you don’t miss out on your favorite treats and goodies! 👑✨

10/10/2025

The weather is looking good Saturday for us to demonstrate the 1936 McCormick-Deering threshing machine. This amazing piece of vintage equipment was once owned by James A. Riner, a local farmer.

Last year, our volunteers planted barley, at our June show they used the vintage binder to cut and bind the barley into sheaves, which were stacked into shocks to dry. They were later collected and put on wagons under roof awaiting the fall festival to be threshed. This process separates the barley head from the stalk. The stalk then becomes straw to be used for animal bedding and other purposes.

This year, we chose not to feature a tractor, but are featuring the threshing machine on our collectible magnet. Some of you might recognize long-time volunteer Steve Giles on the magnet. He was using a pitchfork to move wheat sheaves into the threshing machine at our fall festival in 2023.

So come out and join the fun, learn something new, enjoy good food, toe-tapping music and shop our vendors. You might find some early holiday gifts to buy. Fun for the whole family!

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Get your magnet, while supplies last. See you at the farm museum this weekend!

10/09/2025

Vendor and Exhibitor information:

- Early Set up is available Friday 10/10 from 4pm-6pm

- Saturday 10/11 & Sunday 10/12 set up starts at 7am and the event runs from 9am-4pm

When you arrive please check in at the registration tent, fill out and turn in your liability form and receive your space number. Note: Prior exhibitors for the most part will have the same spots they have had in previous years we are just trying to do a better job at tracking everything.

We are still in need of a few volunteers to help the weekend run smoothly, if you are available to help Friday, Saturday or Sunday please send us a message or let a volunteer know at the registration tent.

We appreciate all of you and are looking forward to an amazing weekend!!