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 […]
Freed men and women built the Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church in Potomac, Maryland, in the early 1900s. Now, the church is gathering donations to complete a restoration and expansion project. News4’s Tommy McFly reports.
POTOMAC, MD — The Scotland community of Potomac is expanding its annual Scotland Juneteenth Heritage Festival in 2023, with three days of music and other activities from June 17-19. The festival will be held at Cabin John Regional Park in Bethesda and the Cabin John Village Mall & Shopping Center in Potomac to benefit restoration […]
Long-time CBS Sports announcer James Brown will help promote the Scotland Juneteenth Heritage Festival this summer, benefiting an historical Black church in Potomac. The festival, presented by the Juneteenth Scotland Foundation based in Potomac, will be held at Cabin John Regional Park, 7400 Tuckerman Lane in Bethesda, and Cabin John Village Mall & Shopping Center, 11325 Seven […]
Work has begun on a project to ensure the Scotland AME Zion Church can withstand heavy rainstorms while also breathing life into an African American community that thrived a century ago. The wood frame church on Seven Locks Road in Potomac was built by hand in 1924 by Black congregants who formed a strong community […]
Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church has a rich history of advocacy and education that dates back to the construction of its building between 1915 to 1924 in what is now known as Potomac, Maryland. While the church closed because of needed repairs, the congregation is being born again thanks to a grant from the National Trust for Historic […]
