Emancipation Day Preview: Forging Freedom

Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville

Observe Emancipation Day in Maryland with a sneak peek of Peerless Rockville's new Forging Freedom exhibit at the Historic Red Brick Courthouse. Forging Freedom: Endurance and Escape on Rockville's Underground Railroad is […]

Emancipation Day at Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park

Woodlawn Museum 16501 Norwood Road, Sandy Spring, MD

Woodlawn Museum - exhibits in the historic stone barn museum - FREE Woodlawn Manor - living history performance on Black women during the Civil War and emancipation from 2 to […]

Emancipation Day at Harper Cabin

Brookside Nature Center 1400 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD

Tours, hands-on-activities, and games at this historic site depicting post-emancipation African American families in Montgomery County. Details

free

Emancipation Day at Sandy Spring Slave Museum

Sandy Spring Slave Museum 18524 Brooke Rd., Sandy Spring, MD

Come celebrate an afternoon of music and arts by Howard University’s premier jazz ensembles featuring Afro Blue and the Howard University Jazz Ensemble at the Sandy Spring Slave Museum. Young artists from Haiti […]

Emancipation Day at Button Farm

Button Farm Living History Center 16820 Black Rock Road, Germantown

Celebrate the day in 1864 when Maryland changed its constitution to abolish slavery during the Civil War. Button Farm will commemorate 155 years of freedom in Maryland with music, food, […]

Emancipation Day at Oakley Cabin

Oakley Cabin African American Museum & Park 3610 Brookeville Road, Brookeville, MD

Demonstrations and hands-on activities, guided tours, live music, storytelling, and much more! Shuttle provided from parking at Mt. Zion Local Park, 5130 Brookville Road, Brookeville. Details

free

Emancipation Day at Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park

Woodlawn Museum 16501 Norwood Road, Sandy Spring, MD

Woodlawn Museum - exhibits in the historic stone barn museum - FREE Woodlawn Manor - living history performance on Black women during the Civil War and emancipation from 2 to […]

Emancipation Day at Harper Cabin

Brookside Nature Center 1400 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD

Tours, hands-on-activities, and games at this historic site depicting post-emancipation African American families in Montgomery County. Details

free

Nature Shack

Seneca Creek State Park

Fun crafts, games, and hands-on nature items. Meet at the Park Office.

Tuesday Talk

Beall-Dawson Museum 103 W. Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, MD

"The 1950s Housing Boom in Montgomery County" explores how the number of single-family homes in the county doubled in one decade. This presentation by Robert Bachman will cover a variety of […]