The Stables
The Stables are housed in what was a
1940’s cattle barn in beautiful
Greenwell State Park. In the spring
of 2000, the old, decaying and unsuitable
interior was gutted and a new barn was
built from the inside out. Now the
stables offer an eleven horse modern,
accessible barn with a large
classroom/grooming area, 2 outdoor arenas
with lighting for evening lessons, spacious
paddocks, over 10 miles of trails, and an
auxiliary five stall barn for additional
horses with private tack and feed room.
Many different sources came together from
the community to contribute to the renovating.
The Eugene Chaney Foundation, an arm of our
local Chaney Enterprises, donated the concrete
footing for the barn floor. Eleven horse
stalls were obtained through Darryle Hatcher
of Southern States in Huntingtown, MD, and
were assembled through the charity of the
Maryland Conservation Corps (MCC), an
AmericCorp Group. Rubber stall mats, an
innovation in horse management, were kindly
discounted by Hickory Hollow Tack Shop in
Hollywood, MD.
In the fall of 2000, MCC constructed five
additional stalls on the north side of the
equipment building across from the barn.
This run-in style barn is affectionately
known as "shed row", offering beautiful
water-views of the Patuxent River to the
horses that live there.
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