Clipper Lane
A historic black community in Montgomery County, Maryland Macedonia Baptist Church, Bethesda, MD. The heart of the River Road communities: Clipper Road, Dorsey Road, Crows Hill Bethesda, MD In the 1900 U.S. census, John and Martha Clipper and their six sons and two daughters lived next to George Clipper (his son? 27 years apart in age) and George’s wife Lucy and their three children. The adult men were working as day laborers. Apparently the census takers had stopped listing
Rock Spring
The Rock Spring Club was one of the hotels that were built near the C&O Canal and employed local Black residents.
River Road / Crow Hill
The River Road/Crow Hill community of about 33 families ( (Roberts 2017) was located in Bethesda, MD about where the McDonald’s is now.