Every year The Washington Informer and Washington Informer Charities plan and host an occasion associated to the Arts and Tradition of the African American Group out in the neighborhood that may be a day of interplay and remembrance of the African American heritage.
This 12 months, we’re partnering with Go to Montgomery MD to rejoice Heritage Days in Montgomery County MD- There can be test in and a kickoff program at Allen Chapel AME Church in SE DC after which three buses will depart for Montgomery County.
Every of the buses can be visiting The Button Farm, The Boyd Negro Faculty, Josiah Henson Museum & Park and taking a bus tour of the Rockville space. Everybody will eat lunch collectively on the pavilion at Glen Echo Park with the buses staggering their arrival and exits.
Venue descriptions:
Boyds Negro Faculty
19510 White Floor Highway, Boyds, MD 20841
This one-room schoolhouse has been renovated and restored to its look in 1900. The 22’x30’ picket construction was the one public faculty for African Individuals within the Boyds space from 1895-1936. Owned and operated by Boyds Historic Society. http://www.boydshistory.org/
Button Farm Dwelling Historical past Middle
16820 Black Rock Highway, Germantown, MD 20874
A dwelling historical past heart depicting plantation lifetime of the enslaved within the 1850s and the story of the Underground Railroad. Reconstruction-era barn, historic outbuildings, heirloom backyard, heritage breed livestock, and slave cemetery. Work continues to revive and preserve the historic buildings and protect the cultural panorama as a useful resource for schooling, preservation, and heritage. Dwelling to the Menare Basis.
https://www.buttonfarm.org
Glen Echo Park
7300 Macarthur Boulevard Northwest, Glen Echo, MD 20812
Glen Echo Park is a vigorous visible and performing arts website relationship again to 1891. Initially dwelling to a Chautauqua program devoted to offering the “lots” with alternatives for schooling and recreation, by 1900 the positioning had grow to be a preferred amusement park, in operation till 1968. A part of the Nationwide Park Service since 1971, Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Tradition, Inc. oversees artwork, historical past, and recreation packages in a novel setting.
http://www.glenechopark.org/
Josiah Henson Park
11420 Outdated Georgetown Highway, North Bethesda, MD 20852
Website of the historic Riley Farm the place Rev. Josiah Henson lived and labored as an enslaved individual from 1795 to 1830. Rev. Henson’s autobiography impressed Harriet Beecher Stowe’s landmark novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A wooden body, two-story home dates to 1800-1815 with an 1850 log wing; each parts have been reworked in 1936. A Montgomery Parks website and a part of the Nationwide Park Service Nationwide Underground Railroad Community to Freedom.
http://www.historyintheparks.org/ or http://www.josiahhensonsite.org/
Bus Tour of Rockville
Since Rockville’s basis, African Individuals have figured prominently within the historical past of this metropolis, the seat of Montgomery County. From the earliest tobacco plantations, farmed by lots of of able-bodied African males, girls, and youngsters to at the moment’s multicultural suburban households, African Americans are a part of the persevering with development and success of the Rockville neighborhood.
https://www.rockvillemd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/978/Historic-Rockville-African-American-Strolling-Tour-Brochure?bidId=
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