Building Blocks

Historical marker location:

8668 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Colesville Road (U.S. 29) and Fentron Street, on the right when traveling south on Colesville Road.)

Marker installed: 2013

A Penny for Your Thoughts. Silver Spring Heritage - Colesville Road.

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.