Rockville Old Post Office
The Old Post Office at Washington Street and Montgomery Avenue has been a familiar landmark for my family throughout our time in Montgomery County....
John Denver’s ‘Country Roads’ Has Local Roots
“Country roads, take me home / To the place I belong ...” The next lyric is “West Virginia,” but John Denver’s first platinum single...
Willard Family Farmers: Generations of Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Most work on family-run operations, some that date back many generations.
This is the story of one of them, a story that begins in 1871...
Then and Now: Wire Hardware
The building known as Wire Hardware was built as a general store in 1895 for William Wallace Welsh after his original store was destroyed...
Local Historian Identifies Enslaved Near Boyhood Home
On a cold winter afternoon Robert Engelman and Bob Pickrell meet in Ken-Gar Palisades Park. Located west of Wheaton and north of Kensington, the...
Rachel Carson Lived Here
Rachel Carson was your neighbor.
“She wrote letters to the Washington Post, spoke to her neighborhood Civic Association, was in touch with politicians, elected officials,...
Then & Now: ALL DOWN THE LINE
A steam locomotive stops at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s station in Gaithersburg in this undated photo. The station was built in 1884. Today...
Then & Now: 200 years in Sandy Spring
Then
In 1822, a group of former enslaved people formed the Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Sandy Spring. The first independent Black church in...
Hyperlocal Historians
Shaun Curtis is crazy about Gaithersburg,
every inch of it. “It’s where I was born and grew up,” he said, with memories of summer camp...
Then and Now: Once Upon a River
Beginning around 1786, White’s Ferry brought people and goods across the Potomac between Montgomery County and Loudoun County, Va. Then came the automobile, as...