Service Day: Old Baptist Cemetery Clean-Up
For Service Day 2016, help Peerless clean and beautify our historic Old Baptist Cemetery! Saturday, October 22, 9am – 12pm Baptist Cemetery (115 W. Jefferson St) Peerless Rockville invites volunteers to join us in the annual clean-up of the old Baptist Cemetery this Service Day. Volunteers will pick up trash and debris, rake leaves, clear […]
Historic Homes and Gardens Volunteer Interest Meeting for September 21 Rescheduled
Due to unforeseen events, our interest meeting of volunteers for our Spring 2017 tour of historic homes and gardens scheduled for September 21 has been cancelled and rescheduled for October 6 at 7 pm. A tour of historic homes and gardens in Spring 2017 won’t happen without volunteers. We need your help to make this possible! If […]
Peerless Rockville’s 37th Annual Awards
Nominations for the 37th Annual Peerless Rockville Awards are now open! Award winners will be recognized November 18 at Glenview Mansion. Peerless is honoring the best of today and looking back to 1966 as we celebrate the 37th Annual Peerless Awards and the 50th Anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act! Join us for a night of celebration, music, […]
Montgomery Modern Bus Tour
The Struggle for Educational Opportunity: William Gibbs and the Equalization of Teacher Salaries
The Struggle for Educational Opportunity: William Gibbs and the Equalization of Teacher Salaries Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 10:00 am Grand Courtroom of the Red Brick Courthouse Presentation by Professor Alonzo Smith The hard won achievements of advancement in educational equality were accomplished by brave people willing to step forward and take risks. One of these was […]
Mayor and Council Support New Mark Commons Nomination to National Registry of Historic Places
On August 1, Rockville Mayor and Council voted unanimously to concur with the Historic District Commission and the Maryland Historic Trust to support listing New Mark Commons in the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation, authorized by the National Historic […]
Rockville Cemetery: What’s Past is Always Present – A Guided Walk in Rockville Cemetery
Rockville Cemetery: What’s Past is Always Present Saturday, September 10, 2016, 9:30 am – 11:30 am. Rockville Cemetery 1350 Baltimore Rd Rockville, MD 20851 Discover notable people from the past on a tour guided by historian Eileen McGuckian through beautiful and historic Rockville Cemetery. Names you see on street signs, schools, book covers, and histories […]
King Farm Farmstead Task Force
Peerless Rockville applauds the City of Rockville for convening the King Farm Farmstead Task Force, a group of Rockville citizens and organizations such as Rockville Economic Development, Inc., Rockville Chamber of Commerce, Heritage Montgomery, and Peerless Rockville dedicated to determine options for a viable and sustainable use of the historic buildings at King Farm Farmstead Park. Economic […]
Sesquicentennial 1864 Maryland Slave Emancipation Quilt with Dr. Joan M.E. Gaither.
Wednesday, August 31, 7 pm Grand Courtroom of the Red Brick Courthouse Rockville, MD 20850 For the 150th anniversary of emancipation in Maryland, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC) commissioned a quilt to visualize the stories of people, places, and events in every Maryland county and Baltimore City before, at the time […]
Sesquicentennial Maryland Emancipation Quilt on Display at Red Brick Courthouse
President Abraham Lincoln’s September 1862 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in states throughout the South that had rebelled against the Union. Maryland was not a confederate state, so slavery continued until Maryland’s 3rd Constitutional Convention Article 24 was ratified on November 1, 1864, finally emancipating Maryland’s enslaved men, women, and children. For the 150th anniversary of […]