The Summit Hotel

Historical marker location:

9 South Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland

( Marker is on South Summit Avenue just south of East Diamond Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

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.