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The Rock Spring Club was one of the hotels that were built near the C&O Canal and employed local Black residents.

The River Road/Crow Hill community of about 33 families ( (Roberts 2017) was located in Bethesda, MD about where the McDonald’s is now.

Miller's Flats was a small residential neighborhood in Bethesda Maryland.

The Pine Top community on Riffle Ford Rd. was linked to the Brownstown community in Germantown.

Albert and Eliza Thompson’s two great-great grandsons, both of us pastors, were standing in the same cemetery where our ancestors were laid to rest. For the first time, the fifth generation of their lineage walked this hallowed ground. We represented the third generation born into freedom in the United States of America.

MoCoLMP lays a wreath in memory of Mr. George Peck, lynched in 1880, and talks about how to push back against racism.

The Sellman community grew up between the farm they had been enslaved on and the train tracks.

The community’s first church, Potomac Grove Colored Church, was built on Violettes Lock Road in 1893 by a community formed by workers at the local stone quarry, near the C&O Canal.

Book talk, Jason Green, Feb. 23, 2026 at peoples books in Takoma Park, Maryland.

The Brownstown community was founded in 1868 by William Brown, who bought ten acres here.

Racism and racial violence in Montgomery County, MS.

The historic Black community of Sugarland, was founded in 1871 in Poolesville, MD.

The historic Black community of Blcoktown was founded by Thomas A. and Jennie Jackson in 1884

What happened to them? What could they do and where could they go when they had nothing, and may not have known where to go and how to get there? Learning about our historic Black communities in Montgomery County, MD.

You are warmly invited to join us at a panel on Saturday at the Poolesville library.

When I was four My mom drove me past here every day on our way to preschool They never told me.... Now I find myself looking...

As recently as 1972, nearly half of community pools in our county were still for whites only. Indeed, across the nation many white people clung to their community pool as a bastion exclusively for them. The effects of this racial discrimination linger today.

Did 1860s Montgomery County, MD have farms or plantations? Language is important.

Classifying places of enslavement in Montgomery County, MD: plantations or farms?

MoCoLMP's new, expanded exhibit on the three lynchings in 1880s and '90s Montgomery County, MD premieres Sep. 22 in Poolesville, MD.