Eliza’s Delight: Martinsburg
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.
Remembering Mr. George W. Peck: Laying a Wreath
MoCoLMP lays a wreath in memory of Mr. George Peck, lynched in 1880, and talks about how to push back against racism.
The Community of Seneca at Violette's Lock
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.