LIVE! The Tracing Freedom Mapping Project: Historic Black Communities in Montgomery County, MD
Learn about slavery, Jim Crow, and the resilience of the historic Black communities that came out of this history in Montgomery County, MD.
“IT HAPPENED HERE” photo exhibit now at Olney Library, MCPL
March 16–April 16, 2026, at Olney Library, during library hours April 17-May 8, at Wheaton library, 11701 Georgia Ave, Wheaton, MD “IT HAPPENED HERE: REMEMBERING THREE LYNCHINGS” was developed by MoCoLMP and reveals the forgotten and nearly-erased history that occurred in our county. Originally focused on the two lynchings that took place in Rockville, the exhibit now includes Mr. Peck’s lynching in Poolesville. With site markers and photographs, this exhibit traces the paths
Hawkin's Lane
A historic Black community in Montgomery County, Maryland Hawkins Lane, Bethesda, MD. Photo by Neile Whitney 2025. Driving up Hawkins Lane in Chevy Chase, Maryland, still gives a sense of what this small kinship community must have been like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This kinship community was founded by James H. Hawkins in 1893, when he bought three acres of land that had in until 1867 belonged to a white farmer named James Hawkins. Residents in the late 20t