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Walk the grounds of Woodlawn Manor, therestored Georgian-style home of prominent SandySpring Quakers. The nearby 1832 stone barn mayhave been used as a hiding place for slaves.

Read up on African American

icons at the Beall-Dawson

House gift shop, which sells

books on the Underground

Railroad. Pictured here is

Ann Maria Weems, a slave in

Rockville who escaped through

the Railroad in 1855.

Immerse yourself in 1820s slave life at the refurbishedOakley Cabin, in which free blacks lived after the Civil War.

Embrace the simplicity of Quaker life at the Sandy

Spring Museum, which features an old-fashioned

classroom and living demonstrations.

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Southern sympathizers and slavery opponents worshipedat the 19th-century Christ Episcopal Church.

Follow the path of freedom seekers on theUnderground Railroad Experience Trail, whichends at Sandy Spring’s 300-year-old white ash tree.

Abolitionists gathered at the 1817 SandySpring Friends Meeting House, the heartof the 18th-century Quaker community.

Rockville resident Charles Price ran a slave-trading pennear St. Mary’s Catholic Church, where his slave AnnMaria Weems attended services in a slave-only balcony.

When he was 5, Josiah Henson was enslaved for a brief periodin the 1790s at Adam Robb’s Tavern — now marked by aplaque — which sat along Montgomery Road (Route 355 today).

Cozy up by the fireplacesat Olney Ale House witha pint, a bowl of stew andoatmeal molasses bread.

At the Sandy SpringSlave Museum &African Art Gallery,take a journey throughAfrican American history,from the transatlanticpassage to the civilrights movement.

Wander along the 1.25-mile Blue Mash NatureTrail, where runawayslaves reportedly tookshelter on their way north.The nearby community ofMount Zion was foundedby former slaves in 1862.

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WHERE: Montgomery County.

WHY: An 1820s slave cabin, freedom seekers’ footprints and a dose ofQuaker goodness.

HOW FAR: About 25 miles from start to finish.

L ong before bustling interstates and Beltway jam-ups, Mont-gomery County’s roads led to freedom.

In the 1800s, the rural county was a thriving hub of the Un-derground Railroad, the network of abolitionists who helped tens

of thousands of slaves flee bondage. Much of the activity in Marylandoriginated in Sandy Spring, a town settled by Quakers in the 1720s.

Today, you can arrive in Sandy Spring the same way many slaves did —on a bid for freedom through the thickets and streams of the nearbywoods, now part of the Underground Railroad Experience Trail. Thetrail, which opened in 2003, stretches a little less than two miles. Alongthe way, visitors will encounter nine points of interest, including the nat-ural spring that inspired the town’s name. Though an active village,Sandy Spring appears frozen in time, with well-kept homes dating fromthe 18th century and its spiritual core, the Friends Meeting House, stillintact.

In these parts, slaves on the run followed the only main artery betweenGeorgetown and Frederick, along what is now Route 355. The road trav-els through Rockville, where “railroad conductor” Josiah Henson —whose autobiography inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’sCabin” — toiled for 30 years as a slave on Isaac Riley’s farm. You canstand on the spot of Adam Robb’s Tavern, where Henson worked as a boy.

Oral tradition holds that many places in Rockville, such as a basementcrawl space in Christ Episcopal Church, may have harbored fugitiveslaves. With few written records, much knowledge of the UndergroundRailroad comes from local lore — a testament to its success, says Antho-ny Cohen. He is the founder of the Olney-based Menare Foundation, anonprofit group dedicated to preserving Underground Railroad sites. InJune near Germantown, Cohen will open the Historic Button Farm Liv-ing History Center, a restored 1850s-era plantation where visitors will beable to try their hand at life as a slave.

Stepping into a slave’s shoes also may put 21st-century frustrationsinto perspective. Cohen remembers meeting a woman who dreaded con-gestion on Rockville Pike until she learned that slaves traveled the sameroad to escape captivity. “It lessens the pain to know that this was a routeto freedom,” he says. “It’s a source of inspiration.”

— Christine Dell’Amore

Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addresses and hours of operation (be sure to

check before you go). Have an idea for a trip? E-mail roadtrip@washpost.com.

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