POTOMAC, Md. — A special honor for a local community working tirelessly to preserve African American history in Montgomery County is getting us uplifted right before the MLK holiday. 

The Scotland African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Potomac, Maryland was built by hand in 1924 by church members in what was the Black community of Scotland. The wood frame church on Seven Locks Road would later become the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the county and is now registered as a state historic site.