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A New Era: Montgomery County in the 1990s (Coming Soon!)

Montgomery County faced new and recurring challenges in the 1990s. Elected officials, community activists, business leaders, county agencies, and residents worked together or independently to implement effective responses. In some […]

Read More Posted on March 27, 2025

Inside Out/Upside Down

Ever wanted to open a drawer at a museum and discover its secrets? Inside Out/Upside Down will satisfy that urge, and then some! For a limited time, Rockville’s Beall-Dawson Museum will […]

Read More Posted on January 23, 2025

Reed Brothers Dodge: Montgomery County’s Oldest Dodge Dealership

Reed Brothers Dodge was one of the longest running automobile dealerships in Montgomery County history, operating from two locations in Rockville for more than 97 years. This exhibit features historical […]

Read More Posted on September 23, 2024

Montgomery County, Then and Now: Photography of Lewis Reed and Barry Gartner

In the early 1900s, photographer Lewis Reed captured hundreds of images throughout Montgomery County, featuring iconic structures, streetscapes, homes, and towns. Over one hundred years later, Reed’s grandson Barry Gartner […]

Read More Posted on December 7, 2023

History, It’s Off the Hook!

Read More Posted on May 19, 2023

Amend: The Future is Us

This exhibit, curated by Rockville High School juniors under the direction of Montgomery History Curator Elizabeth Lay and RHS English teacher Krista McKim, explored environmental issues Montgomery County and the […]

Read More Posted on May 19, 2023

BOOM! 1950s in Montgomery County

Curated by Elizabeth Lay, October 14, 2017 – July 15, 2018Check out the virtual tour of this exhibit exploring life in the 1950s in Montgomery County.

Read More Posted on May 19, 2023

History Between the Pages: The Family Bible in Genealogical Research

— Featuring the Montgomery History Bibles Collection —IntroductionIncreasingly, genealogy research has become an online endeavor. With a couple of keystrokes, we can search multiple decades of census records, birth and death […]

Read More Posted on May 19, 2023

75 Objects + 75 Stories

In celebration of its 75th anniversary in 2019, Montgomery History brought long overdue attention to its extraordinary collection of artifacts to help tell the story of Montgomery County’s past. The […]

Read More Posted on May 19, 2023

The Path to Leadership, Part II

Part two of “The Path to Leadership,” our online exhibit delving into the history of Montgomery County women in politics, explores how the passage of the 19th Amendment changed the […]

Read More Posted on May 19, 2023

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