Boyds Historical Society
Preserving our community's history, including the historic one-room Boyds Negro School (1895-1936), the Boyds Historic District, & the B&O Railroad, in Montgomery County, Maryland. 501(c)(3)
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- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyNine years ago, I first wrote about the 1942 police killing of Pvt. Thomas Broadus and the subsequent uprising in Baltimore some 73 years before the police killing of Freddie Gray in the same neighborhood sparked another uprising over police brutality. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyThree weeks ago, 83 years after his father, a US Army private, was shot and killed by a white cop in Baltimore, a retired Pittsburgh bus driver received a note from the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board that the investigative files were being released. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...
- This is Lincoln High School, Montgomery County's second high school for black children. An abandoned building transported from Takoma Park, then brick-veneered. It opened in September 1935 with 6 classrooms, principal's office, 2 lavatories, water fountain, 236 students (grades 8-11), and 6 faculty.
- In 1943, a 2-room science building was added on to the back of the school, and 2 eleventh-graders, Gladys Owens and Betty Prather, earned their high school (12-year) diplomas. Lincoln High School got its 12-year program during the 1943-44 school year, almost 12 years after the white high schools.
- The south (left) and north (right) sides of the Lincoln High School building. Information about Lincoln High School comes from the book "Before Us Lies The Timber: The Segregated High School of Montgomery County, Maryland, 1927-1960", by Warrick S. Hill, Bartleby Press, 2003.
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyFor over 60 years, The Washington Informer has delivered free, trusted news to the Black community. As a Black, woman-owned outlet with no paywall, your support keeps community-first journalism alive. Contribute one-time or monthly to support! www.washingtoninformer.com/support-our-publication
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, argued December 9, 1952; re-argued December 8, 1953; decided May 17, 1954.
- Linda Brown (left) with her parents, Leola and Oliver, and little sister Terry Lynn in front of their house in Topeka, Kansas, in 1954. Photo by Carl Iwasaki in Life, via Getty Images.
- "Hikaru “Carl” Iwasaki, an American of Japanese heritage who was relocated to a World War II internment camp [Heart Mountain] as a teen and went on to become a renowned photojournalist, died" in 2016. www.denverpost.com/2016/09/15/j...
- For a long time, Google Maps incorrectly labeled the west end of Clopper Rd as White Ground Rd. Now all of Clopper Rd is ... Clopper Rd Apt?
- Also, the (designated) Boyds Local Park is in the wrong place in Google Maps. And it has two 5-star reviews, which is mysterious, because the Boyds Local Park doesn't exist in the real world. And it includes a photo of the historic Boyds Negro School (hi! *waves*), which is not in either location.
- Found books for the school in a little free library. The New City Arithmetics, Seventh Year - First Half, by William A. Boylan, Floyd R. Smith, & Katherine Bauer, Charles E. Merrill Co., 1930. Natural Method Spellers, A Language Series, by Edward Mandel and Lucille Nicol, Laidlaw Brothers, 1929.
- The spelling book belonged to P.S. 100 QUEENS 118 ST. & 111 AVE. OZONE PARK, N.Y. which is now P. S. 100 Glen Morris Elementary School. 📷101st Avenue East at 118th Street, August 14, 1936, in the New York City Municipal Archives
- The same view in September 2024.
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyIn a video recorded early last week, 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden honored the work performed by the Library's staff, the heart of the institution. As the caretakers of our nation’s collective history, the staff will continue to serve Congress, the American public & users across the world.
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyA really wonderful documentary. It addresses the desegregation protests of Glen Echo Park in the early 60’s. I think it’s important to understand the specifics of individual protests, thousands across the during the Civil Rights movement, and this doc does a great job of that. www.aintnoback.com
- Reposted by Boyds Historical Societywas recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy
- Reposted by Boyds Historical Society𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐯. 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝. Compare these 2 versions of the homepage of Brown v Board Nat'l Historic Park in Topeka. Left: as of 5/4. Right: as of today. Before: Brown's "one of the most pivotal ... ever rendered." After: "a class photo." www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm #HistorySky #LawSky
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyDr Carla Hayden led the Enoch Pratt Library System in Baltimore before becoming the Librarian of Congress. First Black person to hold the job. Trump fired her.
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- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyMaryland’s legislature approved a bill to create a Reparations Commission, aiming to address the legacy of slavery and systemic racism. The panel will study restitution options like financial aid and housing support. Read More at: www.washingtoninformer.com/maryland-reparations-commission-approved
- Reposted by Boyds Historical Society“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyMy humblebrag for the day is receiving an NEH letter stating that "The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration." But was it a higher or lower priority than crushing opportunities for 6th-grade contestants in National History Day?
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyI used to judge the national competition at the University of Maryland. they were some of the best days ever--so many talented and creative kids really fired up about history. I judged the av projects and they were sometimes providing information on things no one had ever looked at before.
- I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyI just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
- Reposted by Boyds Historical Society"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyThe AHA has released a statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution, the target of the recent EO, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order “egregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institution” and “completely misconstrues the nature of historical work.” 🗃️
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyNEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order. “As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyAgree. But I’d also put this the other way. You cannot tell the story of this country - and its history of racism - without telling the story of Jackie Robinson as a serviceman, ballplayer, or human.
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyThe Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
- Rescinding Executive Order 9981 next.
- NEW: The Pentagon removed webpages celebrating or describing racial integration talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago...
- One of our more historic members remarked the other day that the sickest he's been in his whole life is when he had measles as a child.
- MCDOT is planning to demolish this building anyway, as part of the Boyds Transit Improvements project. But nature is getting a jump on them.
- "Discover the rare opportunity to own 13.42 acres of pristine woodlands" zoned R-200, that won't have public sewer and won't perc.👀
- Henry Eugene Plummer (1937-2023) grew up in Blocktown and received his bachelor’s degree from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. He served for 4 years with the 3947th Bomber Squadron (SAC) at the Zaragoza Air Base, where he met his wife Maria. He worked for Bethlehem Steel until he retired in 1990.
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyA fun Black History Month footnote to this is that the motif of the anthropomorphic legislative bill—known to most of us from Schoolhouse Rock—has roots in the Black press of the 1930s, as in these two editorial cartoons by Bill Chase & Romare Bearden, both highlighting anti-lynching legislation
- Manuel T. Jackson (1909-1995) was a Tec 5 in the US Army during World War II. On his draft card (October 16, 1940), he listed his mother as Mrs. Fronnie Hebron, his employer as WSSC in Hyattsville, and his height and weight as 6', 180 lbs. He is buried at the St Marks Methodist Church cemetery.
- Mariah Duffin Wims (1856-1928). Her parents were Joshua Duffin (enslaved by the Gotts? Offutts? Nichollses?) and Mahala Duffin (enslaved by the Offutts). She is buried at the John Wesley Methodist Church cemetery, in the Rocky Hill community in Clarksburg, where there is a grave marker for her.
- Photo via the amazing website belonging to one of our members. boydspics.weebly.com
- This afternoon!
- We will observe #BlackHistoryMonth 2025 with two open houses at the historic Boyds Negro School, 19510 White Ground Road. ✏️Sunday, February 9, 2-4 pm ✏️Sunday, February 16, 2-4 pm Come and visit!
- UMD graduates: did you know that, where Lake Artemisia is now, there used to be a tight-knit, self-sustaining Black community called Lakeland? It was destroyed by "urban renewal" in the 1960s and 70s. Thanks to Teneille Gibson, Dominique Moody, and @maggiemore.bsky.social for this story.
- If you come to our open house tomorrow (Sunday), 2-4 pm, you can also see our literally award-winning reconstructed (non-functional) outhouse, behind the school. Young visitors: An outhouse? I gotta go see. Older visitors: An outhouse? Oh, I've seen my share of outhouses. *go to see the outhouse*
- We will observe #BlackHistoryMonth 2025 with two open houses at the historic Boyds Negro School, 19510 White Ground Road. ✏️Sunday, February 9, 2-4 pm ✏️Sunday, February 16, 2-4 pm Come and visit!
- This is what the outhouse looked like, before reconstruction. Best guess is that it dates from when people were living in the former one-room school building, in the 1940s and 50s. In the memory of people who attended the school, the school had two outhouses behind the building, for girls and boys.
- The Maryland National Guard is not allowed to participate in a parade on the Maryland Eastern Shore for Frederick Douglass, because he had the "immutable characteristic" of being born into slavery on the Maryland Eastern Shore.
- It's Frederick Douglass Day today!
- Douglas Turner (1893-1967) was a private in the US Army in World War I. He was born in Turnertown (Old Bucklodge Lane) and is buried at Saint Marks United Methodist Church Cemetery, with a grave marker.
- Decorative carvings in the fascia boards at St. Mark's Methodist Church, in the historic African-American community of White Grounds, south of Boyd's Station. Photo from March 30, 1986, in the Montgomery Planning Department Historic Preservation photo archives.
- Local history trivia: in 1940, Beverly Byron's father-in-law William D. Byron beat Montgomery County Commissioner Walter "Big Train" Johnson in the MD-6 race. In 1941, her mother-in-law Katharine Edgar Byron was the first woman elected to Congress from Maryland. marylandmatters.org/2025/02/10/b...
- Walter "Big Train" Johnson in Germantown on September 13, 1938, the day after he won the Republican nomination for Montgomery County Commissioner. Harris & Ewing, photographer. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-H22-D-4534. Seneca Valley H.S. is on his former dairy farm.
- Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a medic in the only Black combat unit in D-Day, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 2024 for heroism & determination treating troops under heavy enemy fire. He was the husband of one of our founding members, Joann Snowden Woodson. apnews.com/article/dday...
- We will be open today (Sunday, February 9), 2-4 pm! 19510 White Ground Road, Boyds, Montgomery County, Maryland
- You can visit the Historic Boyds Negro School (1896-1936) during #BlackHistoryMonth 2025: Sunday, February 9, 2-4 pm Sunday, February 16, 2-4 pm The school at 19510 White Ground Road was at the heart of the community and was built by the men of the community.
- There is a 48-star U.S. flag inside the school - the flag that defeated fascism. Photo on right: "The first Negro to be commissioned in the Marine Corps has his second lieutenant's bars pinned on by his wife. He is Frederick C. Branch of Charlotte, NC." November 1945. National Archives ID: 535870.
- February is #BlackHistoryMonth. The historic Boyds Negro School will be open on two Sundays, February 9 and 16, 2-4 pm, at 19510 White Ground Road, Boyds, Maryland (Montgomery County). We are a tiny, all-volunteer, community historical society. Please help us get the word out!
- Some of the students at the historic Boyds Negro School, c. 1920. The one-room school building at 19510 White Ground Road will be open for #BlackHistoryMonth on two Sundays, February 9 and February 16, 2-4 pm. (Teacher Laura Hailstork was a grandmother of the composer Adolphus Hailstork.)
- Reposted by Boyds Historical SocietyHow Black families came “up South,” faced down Jim Crow, and built a groundbreaking Civil Rights movement.
- You can visit the Historic Boyds Negro School (1896-1936) during #BlackHistoryMonth 2025: Sunday, February 9, 2-4 pm Sunday, February 16, 2-4 pm The school at 19510 White Ground Road was at the heart of the community and was built by the men of the community.
- The school's former students, who participated in the restoration of the building in the early 1980s, decided on the current name of the school. We honor their memory.
- A family photo - Nannie Hebron Talley, probably in Turnertown on Old Bucklodge Lane, c. 1920. You can see more family photos from this collection at our #BlackHistoryMonth open houses on February 9 and 16, 2-4 pm, at the historic Boyds Negro School at 19510 White Ground Road.
- "Olney, Maryland. Showing a Negro how to vote at the polls on election day" Photographer: Marjory Collins (1912-1985), November 1942, for US Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USW3-010308-D [P&P] LOT 253
- "3 Japanese-Americans from the Colorado River Relocation Center are being shown their new places of work by Sam Rice, former MLB player, owner of a chicken farm near Olney, MD. L to R are William Kobayashi, his wife Betty; Mr. Rice & Giichi Omari" 📷Howard R. Hollem, US Office of War Info, April 1943
- "Poston Relocation Center...was originally known as the Colorado River Relocation Center...Like Gila River, Poston was located on a Native American reservation...The 3 camps within the concentration camp had a capacity of 20,000, making Poston the largest of all 10 camps." njahs.org/confinements...
- We will observe #BlackHistoryMonth 2025 with two open houses at the historic Boyds Negro School, 19510 White Ground Road. ✏️Sunday, February 9, 2-4 pm ✏️Sunday, February 16, 2-4 pm Come and visit!
- Another name for the school is School #2, Election District 11. It was the 2nd public school for African-American children in the Boyds area. The 3rd public school, the Edward U. Taylor School (1952-61) is across the street; it was designated historic in 2023. montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/u...
- A three-minute video about the legacy of the Edward U. Taylor School, made by Historic Preservation staff at the Montgomery Planning Department during the process of adding the school site to the county Master Plan for Historic Preservation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suz...
- Tonight's pontoon boat tour has been canceled due to Tropical Storm Debby. We hope to reschedule!
- Announcing the first Bats, Beavers, and Boyds History pontoon boat tour on Black Hill Regional Park's 🌟new🌟 pontoon boat! Thursday, August 8, 2024, 6:30-8:00 pm. Ages 14 and up. Register here: mdmontgomeryctyweb.myvscloud.com/webtrac/web/...
- The weather forecast for Thursday, August 8, does not look promising for the first Bats, Beavers, and Boyds History pontoon boat tour on Black Hill Regional Park's 🌟new🌟 pontoon boat.
- Announcing the first Bats, Beavers, and Boyds History pontoon boat tour on Black Hill Regional Park's 🌟new🌟 pontoon boat! Thursday, August 8, 2024, 6:30-8:00 pm. Ages 14 and up. Register here: mdmontgomeryctyweb.myvscloud.com/webtrac/web/...
- Here's another photo of a railroad work crew in the 1920s where everyone appears to be white, even though the railroad work force was not all white. Photos at boydspics.weebly.com
