Programs

Tours

Heritage Education

 

Tours & Talks offered by Peerless Rockville

Guided Walking Tours
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  • Rockville at 200 Years
    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