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  • MOOseum’s Fall Festival

    MOOseum 18028 Central Park Circle, Boyds, MD, United States

    This annual event offers activities, games, crafts, demonstrations, costumes, pumpkins and a parade! Make sure you wear a costume to join in on the fun!

  • A Short History of a Long Treasured Icon: The American Front Porch

    Silver Spring B&O Station 8100 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD, United States

    Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. presents MPI Board Member and historian Sandra Heiler America engaged in a century and a half love affair with an architectural feature that no one actually needed but nearly everyone wanted. This talk traces the history of the front porch through the social movements and architectural styles of the 19th…

  • Montgomery County’s Well-Kept Secret: The Mid-Century Modern Suburb of Wheatoncrest

    Charles Goodman, architect, brought modern housing to Montgomery County. Called “the most elegant” builder of the local post-World War Two housing boom, his signature “walls of glass” of asymmetrical window grids and fireplace as sculpture reflect the optimism and openness of Mid-Century Modernism. His belief was that contemporary design should be accessible to a wide…

  • Montgomery County History Conference 2026

    This year’s History Conference will open with a keynote by author David O. Stewart, describing the daunting task that the drafters of the Constitution faced in the summer of 1787. Throughout the day, concurrent sessions will cover an interesting variety of topics such as Native American archaeology in Maryland, anti-war student activism in the county…

  • SS B&O Station Open House: The History of the Georgetown Branch of the B&O Railroad

    Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station 8100 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD

    Special Event: Presentation on the Georgetown Branch at 12:30 pm (appropriate for ages 11 and up) Credit: William Duvall, ca 1966 The 11.5 mile branch stretched from just west of Silver Spring, MD across Rock Creek, through Chevy Chase and Bethesda, and along the palisades of the Potomac river into Georgetown in DC. Trains operated…

  • Immigration Archives

    Maria Sprehn, Ph.D., and Sarah Hedlund explore how Montgomery County evolved into one of the most diverse counties in the U.S. through 200 years of immigration stories, oral histories, archival documents, census data, and more. Stories include immigrants from Ukraine, Latvia, El Salvador, India, Palestine, China, Congo, and others.

  • Sticky G Performs at the SS B&O Station Open House

    Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station 8100 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD

    Special Guests: Sticky G Showtimes at 11-11:45, 12-12:45, and 1-1:45 Join us in welcoming the acoustic band Sticky G. They feature family-friendly cover songs from classic rock, such as the Eagles, Dylan, CCR, Jimmy Buffet, Beatles, Grateful Dead, and other well-known standards. Of course, there will be train songs for this special occasion! Sticky G…