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"In Their Steps" Underground Railroad Walking Tour
Saturday, March 21, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Rockville, MD SORRY! You just missed this great event--Check back soon for the next HGR event

Anthony Cohen, who will deliver the CCHS’ Spring Lecture on the Underground Railway, has kindly agreed to lead a tour of Underground Railway sites in Rockville on Saturday March 21 from 11AM to 1PM.

Rockville was a major starting point on the Underground Railroad--- the secret escape route for runaway slaves--- shuttling local freedom-seekers along lines of escape to Philadelphia and on into Canada. The tour will focus on historic homes, sites and artifacts of 1850s Rockville, which remain to tell the story of an age when mankind traded in flesh.

Meet Josiah Henson (the model for "Tom" in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Rockville resident; Ann Maria Weems who escaped to Canada dressed as a boy; a church whose basement is rumored to have been a hiding place for slaves; and other Rockville people and places from slavery through the Civil War. This special tour is part of the National Park Service's Network to Freedom program and was designed through collaboration between the City of Rockville, Peerless Rockville and The Menare Foundation, Inc.

The cost of the tour is $15 per person; $20 per person for non-members.

Further detailed information including meeting place, parking and restaurants will be found on our web site at www.chevychasehistory.org. and emailed to registrants as they follow the two fold registration process below.

Registration is on a first come basis and is not refundable.

There is a two fold process for registering for this UGRR tour:
1) Send an email with your name and number of tickets to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
and
2)Send a check to CCHS, PO Box 15145, Chevy Chase MD 20825.

QUESTIONS to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .or Susan Elwell at 240-277-3137.

Any remaining tour tickets will be sold at the March 19 Anthony Cohen lecture on the Underground Railroad.

Directions to the Underground Railway Tour
1) Take I-270 north to the Falls Road exit.
2) Follows Falls Road which will merge onto Maryland Avenue, MD-189.
3) Continue on Maryland Avenue crossing South Jefferson Street.
4) Make a right on East Middle Lane and enter parking lot on the right.
Parking is $1.00 on weekends.

Meeting Place for Tour Beginning You will have passed the Red Brick Courthouse on the corner of Maryland Avenue and Courthouse Square one block before South Jefferson Street. We will meet in the front of the Red Brick Courthouse at 11AM sharp.

Luncheon All tour participants are invited to join in a Dutch treat lunch at
Pomodoro Pizzeria Ristorante, 33 Maryland Avenue immediately following the tour.
They have reserved a corner of the restaurant for us. It is a buffet lunch featuring pizza or other Italian entrees.

Pomodoro is located in the Rockville Town Center which is north on Maryland Avenue one block from our parking lot, left into the square and on the left side of the square, the restaurant.