Located in Campton Hills, Illinois

The Garfield Farm and Inn Museum is a 375-acre farmstead, centered on an inn that served teamsters headed west from Chicago during the 1840s. The entire farmstead is a museum offering a variety of educational and entertainment events. The buildings that remain are three original 1840s structures, including the 1842 hay and grain barn, the 1849 horse barn, and the 1846 inn and tavern. Various other barns and outbuildings also stand, the last dated to 1906.

Garfield Farm is the only historically intact Illinois prairie farmstead and former teamsters’ inn. It is cared for by donors and volunteers from over 3,000 households in 37 states as an 1840s living history farm.

The museum offers a variety of educational, family, and entertainment events. Seminars are held on such topics as prairie, woodlands, and wetlands management; bat and blue bird box construction; and fruit tree grafting. Special shows feature rare breed livestock, heirloom garden products and seeds, and collections of antique farm tools. Prairie walks are conducted monthly, and there are social events like barn dances and a candlelight tavern reception at the Inn in December.