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Address
11420 Old Georgetown Rd.
N. Bethesda, MD 20852 United States Get Directions
Website https://www.montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/josiah-henson-park/
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History Hour: Yarrow Mamout & His Family

Josiah Henson Museum & Park 11420 Old Georgetown Rd., N. Bethesda, MD, United States

Join us as Jim Johnston, the author of “From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family,” tells the story of this remarkable man. Brought to Maryland on a slave ship in 1752 and enslaved for the next forty years, Yarrow (his last name) didn’t become a free man […]

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