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Tours & Talks offered by
Peerless Rockville
Guided
Walking Tours
Download
the Tours document in PDF Format

Overview of Rockville history – from Courthouse
Square
and around the Town Center, Rockville’s story from the
1750s to the present
1863 Rockville
Rockville during the
Civil War – visit places JEB Stuart and
Jubal Early saw, and meet Rockville residents of this traumatic period
B&O Station, Wire Hardware,
Saint Mary’s
19th century landmarks
– visit Rockville’s oldest chapel, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s grave, and
structures from the railroad era
History Hunt
Family scavenger hunt
– check out landmarks around the Town Center
Black history in Rockville
Overview of local
black history -- visit landmarks around Town Center from the perspective of
Rockville’s black community, 1750s to the present
Public Architecture in Town
Center
Monuments, buildings,
signage – the seat of Montgomery County government as always been a
location to commemorate events, people, and history
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Rockville
For literary buffs --
places FSF visited in Rockville as well as his gravesite
Downtown Rockville
Center of government
and commerce – see how we have changed over the years
Rockville Cemetery
Beautiful historic
landscape – meet the people who made Rockville
Red Brick Courthouse
Montgomery County
landmark – architecture and history of 1891 building
- 1803 Boundary
Early Rockville
history – settlement in the 18th and early 19th
centuries
- Hospitality and
House Tour
Peerless Rockville’s
signature event -- in May every year
Other group tours (walking or
not) developed and executed upon request
Self-Guided Tours
Using the following
publications:
- Peerless Rockville Bicycle tours of Historic Rockville (four different
routes). Available
for download

- Historic and Architectural Guide to the Rockville
Pike
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Rockville: Rockville in the
1920s**
- A Walking Guide to Peerless Rockville
(out of print, but
loanable copies available at Peerless Rockville office)
- Explore Rockville
(highlights
the town as it existed from 1801 to 1850)
Lectures &
Presentations
- The Rockville Pike
- 200 Years of Rockville history
- Rockville’s History and Architecture
- Rockville in the 1950s
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Rockville: Rockville in the
1920s
- The Black Experience in Rockville
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