• Homes
  • Brooke Grove
  • Brooke Meadow
  • Charley Forrest
  • Cherry Grove
  • Chifton
  • Cloverly
  • Crow's Content
  • Falling Green
  • Greenwood
  • Grove Hill
  • Harewood
  • Howard Hall
  • Longwood
  • Olney Manor
  • Dr. Riggs' House
  • Riverside's
  • Rockland
  • The Cedars
  • Woodburn
• Churches
  • The Meeting House
  • Of Quakers & Episcopalians
  • Saint Luke's
  • Saint John's
  • Sharp Street Church
  • Oakdale-Emory
  • Ashton Methodist
  • Saint Peter's
• Schools
  • Brookeville Academy/Marywood
  • Sandy Spring Friends School
  • Olney Public School
  • Rockland
  • Sandy Spring Elementary
  • Stanmore
  • Sherwood Academy
  • Sherwood
  • Fair Hill
  • Getting to School
• Businesses & Other Institutions
  • Montgomery Mutual Insurance Company/Sandy Spring Bank
  • Fire Department
  • Montgomery General Hospital
  • Olney Inn
  • Telephone
  • Sandy Spring Store
  • Jones' Store
  • Olney Theatre
• Early Mills
  • Muncaster Mill
  • Bond Bone Mill
  • Chandlee's Mill
• Underground Railroad
• Civil War
  • Eyewitness Account
  • Walter Bowie
• Haunted Houses
  • Bloomfield
  • Auburn
  • Clifton
  • Fair Hill
• Outbuildings

• Crossroad Communities
• Early Families at Work & Play
• Timeline
• Old Sandy Spring

WHERE HISTORY HAPPENED

Places and Events That Shaped Our History
Sandy Spring is a unique community, settled in the 1720's by members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. Their peaceful, industrious presence gave a distinctive character to the neighborhood, which by the mid 19th century had developed into a small but prosperous farming and commercial center. Sandy Springers made significant contributions to Maryland's political, economic, cultural, social, and religious history. Their legacy survives today. They established places of worship and schools, organized banking and insurance companies, made influential improvements in farming techniques, patented innovative products, and erected substantial homes. Citizens of Sandy Spring, not all of whom were Quakers, fostered community spirit by organizing clubs (that still meet) dedicated to exchanging ideas about important social and political concerns, agriculture, horticulture, and family and women's issues. Fortunately for us, they kept records of their proceedings.
Last of its kind and a Sandy Spring landmark, Thomas F. Lansdale's Sherwood Roller Mill burned in 1966. Lansdale continued milling in an adjacent building until the early '80s. Grain mills stood at the site for a century and a half, running successively on steam, diesel, and electricity. The mill's original builder, B. Rush Roberts, called it Sherwood after his home (now Cloverly)--a name later shared by the school that grew up across from the home. When Tom Lansdale closed down he ended a family milling tradition tracing back to the old Triadelphia mills and to milling roots in England.