MoCoLMP Supports Investigation into Cheltenham Reformatory
This legislation calls for a deep dive on “the history, operations, and resident deaths” at the facility and the wooded area that was its cemetery. That site includes about 300 gravestones and cinder blocks that mark where some of the Black boys were buried from the 19th into the 20th centuries.
MoCoLMP Celebrates Montgomery County's 250th Anniversary
MoCoLMP will be highlighting our county’s 250th with a rich array of events
Hawkin's Lane
A historic Black community in Montgomery County, Maryland Hawkins Lane, Bethesda, MD. Photo by Neile Whitney 2025. Chevy Chase, MD Driving up Hawkins Lane still gives a sense of what this small kinship community must have been like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Residents in the late 20th century fought off developers and had the lane designated as an official historic district. This kinship community was founded by James H. Hawkins in 1893, when he bought three a