Heritage Days
Heritage Days 2010
Each year, on the last weekend of June, Heritage Montgomery hosts its signature event – the annual Heritage Days Celebration. This two-day, free-of-charge, county-wide event festival offers visitors an opportunity to sample over 40 sites representing the history, culture, and natural beauty of Montgomery County.
Click here to see pictures of Heritage Days 2010.
Most of these sites are open year round. Check if they are open and visit them again.
Bethesda/Glen Echo/Silver Spring
Josiah Henson Historic Site (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
11420 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda
301-650-437
Glen Echo Park
7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo
301-634-2222
Clara Barton National Historic Site
7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo
301-320-1410
Visit the home of the “Angel of the Battlefield - Founder of the American Red Cross”. This Victorian style historic house was Clara Barton’s home during the last 15 years of her life.
Historic Silver Spring B&O Railroad Station
8100 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring
301-926-2650
Smithville Rosenwald School Museum and Education Center
811 E. Randolph Road, Silver Spring
Tour the restored historical school for African American children.
Gaithersburg/Rockville
American Latvian Museum
400 Hurley Avenue, Rockville
301-340-1914
Montgomery County Historical Society
103 West Montgomery Avenue, Rockville
301-762-1492
Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation
29 Courthouse Square, Rockville
301-762-0096
Gaithersburg Community Museum
506 S. Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg
301-258-6160
Visit the restored 1884 B&O Railroad Station complex of the historic Freight House, the outdoor History Park.
Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory
100 Desellum Avenue, Gaithersburg
301-258-6160
Tour the restored building and its surrounding property built by Rockville astronomer Edwin Smith. This site played an important role in efforts of scientists to determine the “wobble of the earth”.
Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Dept. Museum
13 East Diamond Avenue, (Old Fire House) Gaithersburg
301-646-1222
Exhibit includes pictures, memorabilia, a restored Diamond-T fire truck and a 1983 Seagrave. Children can dress up in kid-sized hats, coats, running pants and boots and fulfill their fantasies of driving a fire truck on the Seagrave. Smoky the Bear will visit and fire hats and coloring books will be given away.
Laytonsville/Sandy Spring/Derwood
Art of Fire Glass Studio
7901 Hawkins Creamery Road, Laytonsville
301-253-6642
Visit this contemporary crafts gallery located in a renovated dairy barn in the scenic rolling hills of Montgomery County. Watch ongoing educational demos with narrative as artisans create beautiful hand blown glass pieces.
Agricultural History Farm Park
18400 Muncaster Road, Derwood
301-650-4373
Oakley Cabin
3610 Brookeville Road, Brookeville
301-650-4373
This African American historic site, built in the 1820s to house enslaved people, was later part of a roadside community.
Brookeville One-Room Schoolhouse
10 North Street, Brookeville
301-570-4465
Olney Theatre Center
2001 Sandy Spring Road, Olney
301-924-4485
Odd Fellows Lodge
1310 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Sandy Spring
SlaveMuseum@yahoo.com
Built in the 1920s during the days of segregation, the Lodge stood as a place of worship, social activities and community service. Phase I of this historic structure’s significant restoration was recently completed. Phases II and III will complete the project.
Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery
18524 Brooke Road, Sandy Spring
SlaveMuseum@yahoo.com
Step back in time and tour the cross-section of a slave clipper ship, the Arts Pavilion and Slave Log Cabin. View art and artifacts in the Great Hall. Ribs-on-the-Run will have food and drinks for sale.
Sandy Spring Museum
17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring
301-774-0022
Woodlawn Manor Living History Museum
16501 Norwood Road, Sandy Spring
301-570-5722
Underground Railroad Trail Hikes
16501 Norwood Road, Sandy Spring
301-650-4373
Volunteer “conductors” will lead 90-minute Underground Railroad hikes. The 2-mile trail winds through fields, woods and across streams to Sandy Spring. Hikers will learn various techniques that people escaping slavery used to elude pursuers. Listen to true stories, fascinating and heartbreaking, along the way.
Germantown/Boyds/Clarksburg
King Barn Dairy MOOseum
18028 Central Park Circle, Germantown
301-528-6530
The Button Farm Living History Center
16820 Black Rock Road, Germantown
301-916-7090
Visit a Living History farm depicting 1850’s plantation life. Tour the heirloom garden, Civil War era barn, reconstructed plantation quarters and slave cemetery.
DC/RC Radio Control Club at the South Germantown Park
16200 Schaeffer Road, Boyds
301-717-1980
Watch model aircrafts of all types being flown. Learn through demonstrations throughout the day about radio-controlled aeromodeling, and the technical (and fun!) aspects of the hobby.
Boyds Negro School
19510 White Ground Road, Boyds
301-461-4646
This one-room school, heated only with a pot-bellied stove, served as the only public school for African Americans in the Boyds area from 1895 – 1936.
Hyattstown Mill Arts Project
14920 Hyattstown Mill Road, Hyattstown
301-874-2452
Enjoy Montgomery County’s largest park and the art it inspires! Join in a Song Circle at 7:30 PM on the last Saturday of each month for a summer evening of new tunes and old favorites.
C&O Canal/Western Montgomery County
Civil War Blockhouse Point and Outpost Camp
15000 River Road, Potomac
301-840-5848
Walk in the footsteps of Civil War Union soldiers and see the remains of an 1862 outpost camp and blockhouse used to guard the Potomac River crossing from Confederate attack.
Seneca Aqueduct and Lockhouse (Riley’s Lockhouse)
River Road and Riley’s Lock Road, Poolesville
On the C&O Canal
Seneca Schoolhouse Museum
16800 River Road, Poolesville
301-972-8588
Enjoy a “Back-in-Time” visit to this 19th century one-room schoolhouse.
St. Paul Community Church
14730 Sugarland Lane, Poolesville
301-717-9304
Tour the historic 1893 church and cemetery.
Edwards Ferry
River Road and Edwards Ferry Road
301-972-3452
The Sugarloaf Regional Trails will have historians and local residents on hand to talk about the site and answer questions. Learn the importance of this site during the Civil War and imagine it happening here. Live Civil War Music - on Saturday, John Durant Jr. and Donna Smith will play and sing Civil War songs from noon to 3:00 Hear Just Before the Battle Mother and other haunting and touching reminders of that terrible war. Costumed historians will be on hand to retell and describe events. Books and CDs on local trails will be available.
Whites Ferry
24801 Whites Ferry Road, Poolesville
A unique cable ferry crossing the Potomac every 20 minutes, a short distance downriver from Whites Ford where J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry crossed in the Civil War.
Warren Church and Historic Site
22625 Whites Ferry Road, Martinsburg
301-972-7263
This unique African American historic group of buildings dates back to the 1860s. The church and original one-room schoolhouse are still in use.
Calleva Farm
19120 Martinsburg Road, Dickerson
301.216.1248
Come visit the Calleva Farm which features a peg and beam barn, sustainable vegetable garden, farm animals, and Calleva’s Educational Equestrian Program facility.
Monocacy Aqueduct at the C&O Canal
Route 28 and Mouth of the Monocacy Road, Dickerson
Visit this restored 174-year old seven-arched aqueduct that spans 516 feet in length over the Monocacy River. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the view.
John Poole House and General Store
19923 Fisher Avenue, Poolesville
301-972-8588
Tour the 1793 log cabin that used to be the General Store and Trading Post and is the oldest building in Poolesville.
Poolesville Museum
19933 Fisher Ave, Poolesville
301-972-8588
Restoration is nearly complete on this 100-year old bank building, an iconic historic structure at the center of Poolesville. See an ornate early-20th century bank vault with newly revealed decorative painting.
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