MoCoLMP Celebrates Montgomery County's 250th Anniversary
MoCoLMP will be highlighting our county’s 250th with a rich array of events
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 In the 1900 U.S. census, John and Martha Clipper and their six sons and two daughters lived in Bethesda, Maryland 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
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 / Graysville
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: in the Center of Bethesda
Miller's Flats was a small residential neighborhood in Bethesda Maryland.
Pine Top
The Pine Top community on Riffle Ford Rd. was linked to the Brownstown community in Germantown.
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.
Sellman -- farming and trains
The Sellman community grew up between the farm they had been enslaved on and the train tracks.
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.
Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community & Possibility
Book talk, Jason Green, Feb. 23, 2026 at peoples books in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Brownstown Then and Now
The Brownstown community was founded in 1868 by William Brown, who bought ten acres here.
A Look at the History of Racial Violence in Montgomery County
Racism and racial violence in Montgomery County, MS.
Big Woods Historic Black Community, Dickerson, MD
A short history of the Big Woods historic Black community in Maryland the 1800s.
Sugarland: A Place of Excellence
The historic Black community of Sugarland, was founded in 1871 in Poolesville, MD.
Blocktown
The historic Black community of Blcoktown was founded by Thomas A. and Jennie Jackson in 1884
“IT HAPPENED HERE” photo exhibit hosted at Blackrock Center for the Arts
“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 has recently expanded to include Mr. Peck’s lynching in Poolesville. With site markers and photographs, this exhibit traces the paths of the three lynchings: Mr. George Peck in 1880, Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey in 1880 and Mr. Sidney Randolph in 1896
What did freedom mean to the enslaved of Montgomery County, MD?
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.
Panel on local historic Black communities
You are warmly invited to join us at a panel on Saturday at the Poolesville library.
Farms or Plantations? MoCoLMP’s Mapping Project Responds
Did 1860s Montgomery County, MD have farms or plantations? Language is important.