MoCo History
Montgomery History will host a free online presentation on the Bethesda Meeting House on Thursday, March 14. (more…)
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“Maryland Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad,” an online presentation from Montgomery History, will be available beginning Monday, February 19.
Go to Montgomery History to Present ‘Maryland Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad’
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Montgomery Parks is launching a new program to shine a spotlight on places whose rich histories have long been undervalued and underrepresented.
Calling community members and would-be historians: local students need your help! The 2024 Montgomery County History Day competition is coming up on Saturday, March 9, and the competition is looking for judges.
Montgomery History will host a free online presentation about Washington Grove on Tuesday, February 13.
Part 1 available here: Black History: African-Americans in MoCo Before the Civil War)
Through daily weekday breakfasts with her grandmother, Ida Pearl Green, Kisha Davis learned stories of family and an African American community in Quince Orchard which went much deeper than the […]
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Though local tobacco plantations were small in scale compared to the large estates of the Deep South, they relied nonetheless on labor of enslaved people. In 1790, enslaved people were one-third the entire population in Montgomery County.
MHP has completed the reconstruction of the historic façade of the former Flower Theatre in the Long Branch neighborhood of Silver Spring, MD.