General Note for Unavailable Tour Days 2025Read More
November 2025
Thursday, Nov 20th - Private tours at 10am, 11am, and 12pm. Only the 1pm tour is open to the public.
*We will be closed for Thanksgiving* There will be no tours on the 27th.
We will be open for tours on Black Friday 11/28, and on Saturday 11/29.
December 2025
Saturday, Dec 6th - Christmas Open House! Site is fully open to walk through from 11am-3pm with demonstrations and crafts. Please note there are no guided tours.
Wednesday, Dec 17th - Private tours at 10am and 11am. All other times available
Thursday, Dec 18th - Private tour at 10am. All other times available.
JLMH is closed for the last two weeks of the year (Dec 22, 2025-Jan 6, 2026). Tours will resume on January 7th, 2026.
Other Uses: Culinary/flavoring herb, insect repellent, antiseptic, strewing herb, thymol is active ingredient in Listerine, thyme was said to be a favorite of fairies (Shakespeare’s Titania sleeps on “a bank where the wild thyme blows” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
“The nightmare is a very troublesome disease and often puzzles the physician, but it may be perfectly cured by tea used from this plant” - Herbalist John Hill, 1770
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“Thyme was first cultivated by the Assyrians and used to treat nightmares and short-windedness. Also long-cultivated for its culinary uses, it was brought to the American colonies at an early date, and Thomas Jefferson recorded it in his list of “Objects for the garden” at Monticello in 1794. This evergreen Mediterranean herb grows well in rock gardens, containers, and other well-drained garden locations, and the flowers attract pollinators. Jefferson-documented: This plant was documented by Thomas Jefferson in his Garden Book, Notes on the State of Virginia, or other writings.”
“It is in vain to describe an herb so commonly known.
[Government and virtues] It is a noble strengthener of the lungs, as notable a one as grows; neither is there scarce a better remedy growing for that disease in children which they commonly call the Chin-cough, than it is. It purges the body of phlegm, and is an excellent remedy for shortness of breath. It kills worms in the belly, and being a notable herb of Venus, provokes the terms, gives safe and speedy delivery to women in travail, and brings away the after birth. It is so harmless you need not fear the use of it. An ointment made of it takes away hot swellings and warts, helps the sciatica and dullness of sight, and takes away pains and hardness of the spleen. ’Tis excellent for those that are troubled with the gout. It eases pains in the loins and hips. The herb taken any way inwardly, comforts the stomach much, and expels wind.”
