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...
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...
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,...
The Gold Mine Trail
Gold mining, a part of Montgomery County’s history, is rightfully preserved by the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
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...
Transmitting in Style
Designed during the Golden Age of radio, the iconic WTOP transmitter building has both architectural and historical significance.
Then and Now: Old Town Gaithersburg
Diamond Avenue, where it crosses Summit Avenue, as it was in 1914. Shopping options, from left: Belt’s Store, (sign) Charlie Foo’s Laundry, Nicholl’s Harness...
Then + Now — Sales of Future Past
The Jetsons-era sign for Congressional Plaza on Rockville Pike, seen here in the 1960s, signaled to Space Age consumers the proximity of Peoples Drug...
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...