Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery, Inc. 18524 Brooke Rd, 20860 301-774-4066 The museum’s campus has four displays: a cross-section of a slaving clipper ship, a slavery-era log cabin, an arts pavilion and great hall. sandyspringslave museum.org Silver Spring Arrest Site of William Chaplin Jesup Blair Park, Georgia Ave & Blair Rd, 20910 • 301-650-4373 Chaplin, an abolitionist from Albany, NY, was involved in the failed escape of 77 people from Washington, D.C. aboard the schooner Pearl in 1848. Eluding imprisonment then, Chaplin was captured on August 8, 1850 during a desperate shootout with slave catchers on Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring. Both freedom seekers he was transporting were wounded. Northern abolitionists raised his bond of $25,000. There is an outdoor exhibit that describes these events. montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/jesup-blair-local-park can hike the “African-American Cemetery Interpretive Trail,” visit ruins of the furnace and ironmaster’s mansion, tour the Log House and see the company store and Historic Harriet Chapel. Trails connect visitors to the Manor Area of Cunningham Falls State Park. The site offers regular events and tours. Several enslaved workers escaped from the site. catoctinfurnace.org Mount Calvert Museum and Historic Site 16801 Mount Calvert Rd, 20772 • 301-627-1286 Mount Calvert plantation depended upon enslaved labor from the 1770s to the end of the Civil War. The site is linked to escaped enslaved people through advertisements placed by different owners. In 1841, Samuel Berry called for the return of Dick and Charles Sprigg, and owner John Brookes called for the return of his house servants Susan and Arianna. pgparks.com/facilities/ mount-calvert-historic-site The Charlotte Duckett Log Cabin at the Patuxent Rural Life Museum 16000 Croom Airport Rd, 20772 • 301-627-6074 Rare chestnut log tenant farm house from the 1800s, which was probably built by Charles Duckett, a former slave and a landsman in the Union Navy during the Civil War. It is part of the larger Patuxent Rural Life Museums complex, which includes the Duvall Tool Museum, a tobacco museum, a blacksmith shop, and a 1923 Sears, Roebuck and Company simplex house. pgparks.com/parks_trails/ patuxent-river-park Upper Marlboro Croom Airport 16000 Croom Airport Rd, 20772 • 301-627-6074 The first African American owned and operated airport on the eastern seaboard. experienceprincegeorges.com/ listing/columbia-air-center/987 Darnall’s Chance House Museum 14800 Governor Oden Bowie Dr, 20772 • 301-952-8010 The museum highlights the African-American community and mid-18th-century town life in Upper Marlboro. Eight enslaved people have been recorded as escaping from here. Those who escaped were William and his wife Nancy (1820), Basil Duppin, Leander, Camilla Dent, Louisa and John Dent (1832 to 1857) and John Kettle (1860). pgparks.com/3055/Darnalls-Chance-House-Museum Thurmont Catoctin Furnace Village 12610 Catoctin Furnace Rd, 21788 240-288-7396 The village includes the Museum of the Ironworker, which has rare forensic facial reconstructions of two enslaved workers. Visitors CABELL (CAB) CALLOWAY, III (1907–1994) grew up in Baltimore and frequented many local jazz clubs. His band performed regularly at the Cotton Club, and in 1931 he recorded the hit, “Minnie the Moocher.” In 1983, the aging jazz and scat legend performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with his grandson, C. Calloway Brooks, who now directs the Cab Calloway Orchestra. 18 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide
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