with Julianne ManginTuesday, March 19 at 2:00 p.m. | What do you do when your family stories don’t add up? All Julianne Mangin had wanted to do was fact-check her mother’s […]
With John Lustrea from The Civil War Medical Museum | Clara Jones is just one of many volunteer Civil War nurses who helped care for the sick and wounded of the […]
with Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman | Join authors Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman as they discuss their new book, Nation’s Metropolis, which describes how the national capital region functions as […]
with Blyth McManus, Museum Curator C&O Canal National Historical ParkTuesday, April 9 at 2:00 p.m. | In the museum collection of the C&O Canal National Historical Park is a shop ledger […]
with Don Housley | This presentation focuses on the rise and fall of the milling industry in Montgomery County. The talk describes the nature and diversity of milling operations on the major […]
Rockville Science DaySunday April 21, 2024Montgomery College51 Mannakee St. Rockville, MD12-5pmJoin Dr. Stonestreet at Montgomery College in Rockville for the Rockville Science Center’s 33rd annual Rockville Science Day, a free […]
with Ralph Buglass | Tuesday, April 23 at 2:00 p.m. | The Washington Aqueduct, carrying drinking water to the nation’s capital but running mostly through Montgomery County from Great Falls, was a […]
This year-long series on "Paths to the Present" explores the development of the Rockville Pike, also known as Route 355 and nicknamed “The Great Road.” It is the most heavily-traveled […]
with Tom Farquhar | The rich soil of Montgomery County has supported a wide variety of agricultural enterprises, ranging from millennia of crop cultivation by indigenous communities, to tobacco plantations of […]
with Jim Johnston | Tuesday, May 14 at 2:00 p.m. | The word “slavery” brings up a mental image of the “peculiar institution” as it existed in the Deep South right before […]
with Susan Soderburg and Eileen McGuckian | The opening of the Metropolitan Branch of the B&O Railroad in 1873 was a pivotal event that changed the face of Montgomery County forever. […]
with Sammie Hatton, Montgomery History Collections Manager | Tuesday, June 4 at 2:00 p.m. | Montgomery History proudly holds and cares for 10,000+ objects within our object collection. These items range from […]
