Montgomery History and Montgomery College are partnering on Nov 4. for the first in-person Montgomery County History Conference since 2020.
The conference returns to Montgomery College’s Rockville campus, where attendees will spend an entire day engaging with local history.
The conference includes a keynote address, eight breakouts, a lunch, a performance and a happy hour reception following the event.
The morning keynote highlights “Black Chevy Chase,” and the numerous forms of restrictions that prevented Blacks’ development in the early 20th century.
Breakout sessions cover the topics of Emory Grove’s renowned Du-Drop Inn, historic homes and barns of the Ag Reserve, the families of the Agricultural History Farm Park, Sentinel publisher Rebecca Fields, a history of enslavement in Kensington, the county’s Poor Farm, the seven enslavers who have public schools named for them, and new techniques for indigenous archaeological research.
The final stretch of the conference is called “A Rockville Journal,” which reveals 1850s Rockville portrayed by a local attorney, who’s played by actor Steve LaRocque.
Registration is $65, but only $15 for Montgomery College students. More information and registration can be found here.
