POTOMAC, Md. (WJLA) – Faith and football are working together to help rebuild an historic AME church. Hand built by church members from 1915 to 1924, Scotland AME Zion church, along Seven Locks Road in the Scotland community of Potomac, Maryland, was the center of life for generations of predominately Black congregates. The property was […]
POTOMAC, Md. (7News) — Hand built by church members from 1915 to 1924, Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church along Seven Locks Road in the Scotland community of Potomac, Maryland was the center of life for generations of predominately Black congregants. The property was originally purchased by freed Black slaves. Today, this Maryland State Historic Site is being […]
Community members and local leaders gathered to commemorate the raising of Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church, a historic Black church in Potomac, after a flood in 2019 wiped out its foundation. This is the latest milestone in the project to restore the church and build a new place of worship. According to Brian Gafney, an architect […]
Four years after floods destroyed the foundation of Scotland AME Zion Church in Potomac, residents of one of Montgomery County’s oldest Black communities gazed upon their uplifted church. Original plans called for the 99-year-old church on Seven Locks Road to be lifted off its foundation Thursday afternoon, but recent rains that softened the ground convinced […]
Construction crews raised a historic Black church Thursday as part of the restoration effort after a flood wiped out its foundation in 2019, making the structure in Potomac, Maryland, unsafe. “Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church has been through the fire, we’ve been through the flood, but we’re still standing here because of His blood,” church member […]
To mark and celebrate lifting the 99-year-old Scotland AME Zion Church from its original battered foundation, the Scotland community and civic leaders will host a media event at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28. The church at 10902 Seven Locks Road, built by hand and opened in 1924 by the Black congregants who lived nearby, […]
POTOMAC, Md. — The Scotland Community in Montgomery County, Maryland was founded by formerly enslaved African Americans. Now, their descendants are working to rebuild its cornerstone church. The original Scotland AME Zion Church was established about a century ago on Seven Locks Road in Potomac. One group helped renovate it in the 1960s — and now, it’s […]
If you’ve spoken to anyone in the Scotland community lately, you’ve likely heard them speak of one special holiday: Juneteenth, or as some proudly call it, “Freedom Day,” which commemorates the day in 1865 when Union troops freed the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas. Scotland — the one in the D.C. suburbs, not the United Kingdom […]
Church services had ended hours earlier on this warm Sunday in February, but a distinctly spiritual feel drifted throughout the Potomac townhouse where dozens of people were gathered. Up for discussion: resurrecting the nearly 100-year-old Scotland African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church, which had been devastated by a 2019 flood. Regardless of their race or […]
For a long time, Scotland — a Montgomery County community founded in the 1880s by African Americans — was a living symbol of how good our country can be at looking the other way. As recently as the early-1960s, many of Scotland’s Black residents lived in condemned homes without running water — their neighborhood accessible […]
