Sandy Spring / Olney / Ashton

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Alabama

Ashton

Jerusalem

Balley's

Jonesville

Blue Mash (Connected with Claysville and Jackson City)

Brighton

Poolesville, Md

Montevideo Road

Brinklow

Seneca, MD

Seneca

Brooke Grove

Sugarrland

Chandlee Mill

Poolesville, Md

Texas / Old Union

Cincinnati

Poolesville, Md

Claysville (Connected with Blue Mash and Jackson City)

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Davis Corner

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Dogtown

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Ebenezer

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Hines Road

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Jackson City (linked with Claysville and Blue Mash)

Layhill

Mt. Zion (linked with Newmantown)

Norbeck (linked with Mt. Pleasant)

Norwood Road

Owen's Road

Radwick

Riggs Bottom

Connected with Riggs Road??

Unity

Waters Bend (Waters Bottom?)

Poolesville Today

A Freed Community

As the area swelled with newly freed Black inhabitants, Quakers interacted regularly with the freed population, employing them to work on their farms or homes as day laborers or domestic workers. Some Quakers sold or donated land to Black residents.

Traditionally, enslaved Black congregants had been allowed to sit in Friends meetings in a separate area, but were not allowed to become members of Friends’ meetings. However, in 1826, a white resident of Brookeville named James P. Stabler donated land to establish what would become the Sharp Street Methodist Church, which is still central to the local Black community today. (O'Hern 2014)

In 2024, a Reparations Working Group was begun at the Sandy Spring Meeting to work on learning the process of “repairing historic harms against non-white communities.” (Sandy Spring Friends Meeting 2024)

References

Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project. 2025. “History of a People: Rosenwald Schools, Montgomery County, MD.” Https://Www.youtube.com. September 9, 2025. https://youtu.be/iudxYVtdMkI

O’Hearn, Megan. 2014. “Brookeville 1814: Slavery.” Maryland State Archives. Maryland State Government. 2014. https://msa.maryland.gov/brookeville/slavery.html.

Quaker Heritage Press. 1688. “A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting, 1688.” Www.qhpress.org. Maryland State Archives. 1688. http://www.qhpress.org/texts/oldqwhp/as-1688.htm.

“Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery.” 2019. Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery. 2019. https://www.sandyspringslavemuseum.org.