HMD’s popular Speaker Series is back!
June 10th in Poolesville:
Come hear about our county’s founding 250 years ago!

Yes, it’s the Semi-Quin-Centennial Year for our county, founded 250 years ago this fall. (Just three months after our nation.)

              There are so many fascinating things to learn about how we were split off from Frederick County, got a new courthouse at a saloon on the Georgetown/Frederick Road (Hungerford’s Tavern, in today’s Rockville), and were named after a military martyr who never set foot in our county…or Maryland. And how Maryland quickly raised some brave regiments whom George Washington himself credited with saving his army from total destruction in a key battle in New York.    

              These are just a few of the stories you can hear next Wednesday night in Poolesville, at 7 p.m. on June 10, when acclaimed historian and author David O. Stewart will give a free talk about the founding of MoCo in 1776 and our role in the American Revolution. It will be presented in the social hall of the Methodist Church, 17821 Elgin Road, Poolesville.             

Stewart’s lecture will be sponsored by Historic Medley District and Montgomery History as part of the MoCo250 celebration of the county’s and nation’s semiquincentennial (meaning “half of a 500^th birthday!).

A resident of Potomac, David Stewart is the author of five acclaimed, award-winning books about American history, three historical mysteries, and two more historical novels, on topics ranging from George Washington and James Madison to Aaron Burr and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, plus the creation of the U.S. Constitution in the summer of 1787.

Hope you can come, and bring your friends too. It’s free, but to give us a sense of numbers attending, click here to →RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

click here to →learn more about author and speaker David O. Stewart