Oatland Farm is located in West Olney, south of Route 108 and west of Bowie Mill Road (Click here for map).  First established in 1996, Oatland Farm is governed by a single homeowner association, whose five-member Board of Directors is elected by the 309 households that make up the community.  There are 185 single-family homes and 124 townhomes throughout the community, including 15 Moderate Priced Dwelling Units (MPDUs).  The homes were built by Ryan Homes and NV Homes.  The Oatland Farm Community offers two tot lots and several asphalt paths that traverse the Rock Creek North Trail tributary and parkland. Oatland Farm is professionally managed by The Management Group Associates (www.themgmtgroup.com) of Germantown, Md. 

Oatland Farm is represented by the Montgomery County Council District 4 (www.montgomerycountymd.gov/csltmpl.asp?url=/content/council/mem/members.asp), State Legislature District 19 (http://mlis.state.md.us/), State Senator, State Delegate, U.S. Representative, Maryland District 4 (www.house.gov) and two U.S. Senators  (www.senate.gov).  In addition, the community has a voice in state and local matters as a result of its membership in the Greater Olney Civic Association (www.goca.org).

Other helpful links around the County:

MC (www.montogmerycountymd.gov), MNCPPC (www.mc-mncppc.org), Civic Federation, Olney Town Center Advisory Committee (www.olneytowncenter.org), Olney Chamber of Commerce (www.olneymd.org), HGIC (www.hgic.umd.edu),

Students who live in Oatland Farm and attend Montgomery County public schools are included in the Sherwood school cluster Belmont Elementary, Rosa Parks Middle and Sherwood High.  (http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/, http://www.mccpta.com/) 

The Olney area offers convenient grocery stores (Giant, Shoppers, Safeway and Roots) and the Olney Farmers Market (www.olneyfarmersmarket.org) runs May to November every Sunday from 9 to 1, as well as other neighborhood businesses   Major retail shopping malls, such as Lake Forest Mall, White Flint Mall, and Montgomery Mall are conveniently located as well. More shops and restaurants can also be found in Germantown and Columbia, which are not too much further away.

Olney residents are served by local branches of the Montgomery County Library (www.montgomerycountymd.gov/Content/Libraries/Index), United States Post Office (www.usps.com) and Montgomery County Police Substation (www.montgomerycountymd.gov/police). 

History of Oatland Farm

Oatland Farm was the residence of Washington Bowie, a successful export merchant said to have been one of the wealthiest citizens of Georgetown in the early 1800s.  Named for George Washington, a family friend, Washington Bowie was born in Montgomery County in 1770, in the Glenmont area in a home called Hermitage.  In 1820, he purchased 2,000 acres in the Olney area, and settled in a stone dwelling at Oatland Farm with his wife, Margaret Crabb Johns Bowie.  The Oatland Farm acreage was divided amongst the children over time, and Oatland, Roseneath, Flint Hill and Chichester were all Bowie Family Farms in Olney associated with Washington Bowie family.  He established his eldest son, Thomas Johns Bowie at Roseneath, and bequeathed Oatland Farm to his namesake, Washington Bowie II.  Washington Bowie II had no children and at his death, the property went to Washington Bowie IIs sister, Margaret Dallas Bowie.  Upon her death, with no children, Oatland Farm was passed to another sister, Mary Bowie Chichester.  Her son, Washington Bowie Chichester, built the existing frame house on the property in 1875.  His son built a house in the 1890s on adjoining land and named this new farm Chichester.  The Classical Revival House at Oatland Farm has a pedimented entry porch with classical columns and a bracketed cornice.  Associated structures close to the historic residence included the stone springhouse and the one-room log house. The family burial ground is on a small hilltop to the north.  There, in a massive stone wall enclosure, is the final resting place for three generations of this branch of the Bowie Family.

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