June 23, 2012

Quince Orchard Colored School, Gaithersburg, MD

2012 Montgomery County Heritage Days. Quince Orchard Colored School is part of the Pleasant View Historical Site on Darnestown Road. Highlight: former students were present.

June 20, 2012

Historic Cemetery Tour, Lewes, DE

We enjoyed the Historic Cemetery Tour of St. Peter's Episcopal Church Cemetery in Lewes, Delaware. We spent an hour and a half in the very capable hands of the President of the Board of Trustees of the Lewes Historical Society (and fellow Association for Gravestone Studies member) Russ Allen. I hope to get a few more of the great Lewes Historical Society events in before the end of the summer.

Russ Allen & Rob Taylor:

Marker is 1889:

Oldest surviving gravemarker is from 1707:

1708:

I had never noticed the lighthouse on the left of the relief: