News & Events

Saturday, January 10, 2026 2-2:30 p.m. Poolesville Presbyterian Church sanctuary, 17800 Elgin Rd., Poolesville  Join MoCoLMP and our community partners as we remember Mr. George Peck , lynched in Poolesville in 1880. Pastor Howard (Chuck) Copeland of the Hosanna Community Church, Ed Reed , Poolesville Town Commissioner, Neile Whitney and Derrick C. Tabor , MoCoLMP Steering Committee members, will deliver brief remarks. We will also mark the passing of Mr. Peck by laying fl

A MoCoLMP photo exhibit We are pleased to announce the opening of our updated exhibit, It Happened Here: Remembering Three Lynchings , at...

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

Suzanne Johnson of the Sugarland historic Black community in MD remembers the self-sufficient community and the delicious food they made.

"I was born down on the river bottom about four miles below Edwards Ferry, on the Eight Mile Level, between Edward's Ferry and Seneca...."

Watch the George Peck marker program and see the proclamation issued by Montgomery County's County Executive.

Rev. Chuck Copeland reads the marker, newly unveiled on Oct. 22, 2023, acknowledging the 1880 lynching of Mr. George Peck.

Sunday, October 22 • 3–5 pm Poolesville Presbyterian Church 17800 Elgin Rd., Poolesville, MD MoCoLMP will unveil, in Poolesville, the...

Join MoCoLMP on Zoom for a new film by Poolesville native and student documentarian, Joey Geehreng, “Ten Days in September—1956”. The...

You are invited to join MoCoLMP on Saturday, April 22 at 1 p.m. for a tour of the historic African American community of Martinsburg, in...