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Thus large families of slaves were
discharged from compulsary service
and the beginning was made
of commiting this people to the
policy of free labor owning the soil.
Two leading land owners of the
community each [?]
over one hundred negroes. In
this early abolition and establishment
of free labor we find one of the
causes of the neighborhoods individuality.
During the days before
the Civil war between the states, it is believed that
there was a station of the Underground
Railroad "in the vicinity. Although
to-day the racial problem in
Sandy Spring is perhaps more prominent
than in some other similar
communities, the neighborhood
continues to raise the negroes level
of industry, morality and trained
efficiency".

Mention has been made of
the neighborhood during the periods
of the Revolutionary war and the

Note!!!!
The first wholesale freeing of many slaves in Maryland, as far as be known
occurred in the vicinity through the will of one of these two landowners in 1806.

Note !!!
Recent interest taken in the erection of a new colored church and school to
replace those destroyed by fire a short time ago.