3L History
The origins of the park's three lakes.
What is quarrying?
Three Lakes prides itself on providing excellent animal welfare. Animal welfare is based on these two "C"s.
What is choice and control?
The state reptile of Virginia.
What is a Garter Snake?
These two cephalopod fossils are on display to touch in the Main Hall.
What are ammonites and orthocone nautiloids?
These two cows call Meadow Farm their home.
Who are Emily and Marigold?
The year that 3L Nature Center originally opened to the public.
What is 1992?
The only animal in the collection that is not native to VA.
This is the name of the largest estuary in the United States, forming the eastern border of Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
"Virginia through Time" showcases these 4 epochs.
What is the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and the Present.
This pig was the runt of the litter.
Who is Otis?
What is "Where three worlds meet?"
The number of animals that are currently in Three Lakes collection (groups are counted as 1).
What is 33?
The number of geologic regions in VA.
What is 5?
These 4 prehistoric animal skulls/parts are on display with their present day descendants in the past section of the Main Hall.
What is the Saber tooth, Short-faced bear, Mammoth/Mastodon tooth, and Castoroides skull?
The breed of sheep housed at Meadow Farm.
What are Gulf Coast Native Sheep?
The year that 3L Nature Center experienced a flood due to hurricane Gaston.
What is 2004?
Of the animals housed at 3L, this species is endangered in the state of VA.
What is the Chicken Turtle?
This is the most common, renewable resource found in Virginia's forests.
What is timber?
Virginia's state fossil.
What is the Jefferson Scallop?
The house and land at Meadow Farm was owned and operated by this family.
Who is the Shepperd family?
This number of enclosures were originally on display at 3L (not including the Main Aquarium).
What is 27?
This animal's scientific name means "Fishhook" and "Twisted or intricate".
What is the Eastern Copperhead?
This ecological event in the 1930s prompted the creation of Shenandoah National Park to preserve natural habitats.
What is the Depression/Conservation Movement?
Dinosaur tracks have been found in these 3 basins in Virginia.
What are the Richmond, Danville, and Culpepper basins?
The year Meadow Farm Museum opened to the public.
What is 1981?