Azalea Garden

Historical marker location:

1800 Glenallen Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Glenallan Avenue east of Heurich Road, on the right when traveling east.)

1970. Brookside Gardens: 40 years (1969-2009).

Maryland was once a center of the slave trade: Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that allowed slavery, and by the mid-18th century, it had become a major center of the domestic slave trade. Maryland slave traders sold enslaved people to plantation owners in other southern colonies and to the Caribbean.