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 […]
After a 2019 storm destroyed the wall of a Potomac church, its members have worked to rebuild it. Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church in Potomac has experienced a myriad of challenges caused by various floods and storms wearing down the building due to its location prone to flooding. The church was also vandalized earlier this month, […]
Half of the proceeds from the National Philharmonic’s two performances of Messiah are being donated to help restore the historic Scotland African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Potomac that was burglarized and vandalized recently and was gravely damaged by a storm two years ago. The performances will be held at the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda on […]
Bringing renewed social relevance, commentary and philanthropy to an annual holiday tradition, National Philharmonic (NatPhil) presents George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah,” Dec. 17 and 18 at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland and Dec. 23 at Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia. This year’s performance has special meaning because 50% of the proceeds from the performances at Strathmore will go toward the “2nd Century Project” […]
BETHESDA, MD — A portion of the proceeds from the National Philharmonic’s two performances of “Messiah” at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda will be donated to the restoration of the historic Scotland African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Potomac. The National Philharmonic’s performances of “Messiah” at Strathmore will take place on Saturday, Dec. 17 […]
