Posted on 10/04/2010 4:05:49 PM PDT by Justaham
In 2006, at the height of the housing bubble, Montgomery County paid $1 million to buy a two-story colonial in North Bethesda with a log cabin jutting out on one side. The house had been on the market only a couple of months, but county officials felt compelled to act quickly: This might be their only chance to save the real Uncle Tom's Cabin - the former home of Josiah Henson, the model for the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal antislavery novel.
Since 2006, state and county officials have spent another $1 million to expand and study the property, and in recent months, Montgomery has held public meetings to solicit ideas on how to turn the old farmhouse into a public museum.
There is just one problem, though. The house on Old Georgetown Road is not the real Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The house was once home to the Riley family, who held Henson as chattel, and the years Henson spent on the 3,700-acre Riley plantation, from 1795 to 1830, did form the basis of his memoirs, which Stowe, in turn, relied heavily on. But historians have determined that Henson never lived in either the house or the cabin, which was then a kitchen. He lived in slave quarters that are long gone.
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Their County Council is slightly to the Left of the old Soviet Poliburo.
Wasn't this featured on "Flip That House"?
True.
Folks still in Maryland wonder why folks are packing up and moving to Virginia. Folks wonder why counties are broke in Maryland. Folks wonder why cities are cutting back on all services in Maryland.
We live in the Freak State: Maryland (if you can call it living). You really don’t want to know all the boneheaded things they spend money on around here. It is absolutely disgusting how the uberLIB majority spend OPM (other peoples’ money). Soon to retire...soon to move to a red state. I apologize for hoyer, van hollen, mikulski and on and on.
Ah yes, the Peoples Republic of Montgomery County. Say no more.
They didn’t “buy” anything, it’s called stealing tax payer money. These people knew exactly what they were buying(stealing).
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