Volunteer Opportunities at Ben Lomond Historic Site

Volunteering with Prince William County's Office of Historic Preservation is an opportunity to follow a passion for history while helping out in your community!

Ben Lomond Historic Site is an 1832 house, outbuildings, and rare surviving slave quarters located north of Manassas. Used as a hospital in the wake of the Battle of First Manassas, the site explores the impacts of war on soldiers and civilians, alongside the experiences of pre-war residents and enslaved people. There are many different positions for volunteers available at Ben Lomond that might appeal to your interests.

Interpretive Guide

A visitor experience focused position, interpretive guides are a rewarding position for someone passionate about history! Working with site staff, you will conduct guided tours of the house and outbuildings during events or regularly scheduled tour days. This requires knowledge of Ben Lomonds stories, Civil War medicine, and plantation life, or a desire to learn them, so you can engage visitors in discussion and answer their questions. Guides can also help staff with activities for field trips throughout the year.

Materials to get started will be provided, and special trainings are conducted once a year. Staff will also provide feedback to help develop public speaking and historical interpretation techniques.

Events Assistant

In this position, you assist with special events by providing visitor information services, assist site staff with activities, and event set-up and cleanup. These tasks may include physical labor, administrative assistance, and working with the public. Volunteers must follow directions from staff to help make our events a success. Special events assistants will be needed weekends and evenings throughout the year. They will also have the opportunity to help with public programs through living history and special tours.

Gardener

Gardeners help to maintain two vegetable gardens on site, the kitchen garden and slave quarters garden, alongside the antique rose garden. A great opportunity if you like to work with plants, vintage rose varieties, or outdoors in general. Gardeners also assist with periodic site clean-up days.

Group and Service Projects

While everyday maintenance work is done by Parks & Recreation staff, trail maintenance and improvement, plus viewshed restoration, are often undertaken by volunteers. If your group is seeking a service project outdoors, contact us for more information!

Junior Preservationists (13-18)

Interested in volunteering at Ben Lomond? Are you between 13 and 18 years old?Click this link to our Junior Preservationist programand specify Ben Lomond when you hit respond!