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MG-70 · Sep 26, 2015

mayor_quimby said:
only slums i know in Potomac is the Scotland neighborhood

+10

Is that near Cabin John park or closer to Great Falls?

OrangeAgent27 · Sep 26, 2015

MG-70 said:
+10

Is that near Cabin John park or closer to Great Falls?

I believe it backs up to cabin John.

outrider58 · Sep 26, 2015

mayor_quimby said:
only slums i know in Potomac is the Scotland neighborhood

Then there's Toby Town...

MG-70 · Sep 26, 2015

OrangeAgent27 said:
I believe it backs up to cabin John.

My parents live out there and there are some decent deer in those woods...didn't know there was bear...have to tell my dad to keep his eyes open in his morning walks!

Schipperke · Sep 27, 2015

outrider58 said:
Then there's Toby Town...

Tobytown is really something. In middle of nowhere, short walk to C&O canal. Homes 1/2 mile away $5-15M , Danny Snyder is close by. Tobytown folk get travel vouchers for taxi rides to use their EBT cards. Different class of poor in Potomac. Scotland kids go the best schools in the county in an effort to keep the mean GPA of the schools believable. :innocent0

swinokur · Sep 27, 2015

Riggo lives in Cabin John

Schipperke · Sep 28, 2015

swinokur said:
Riggo lives in Cabin John

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

JMintzer · Sep 28, 2015

Schipperke said:
Scotland kids go the best schools in the county in an effort to keep the mean GPA of the schools believable.

Huh? They go to the schools they go to because that is where they live...

Afrikeber · Sep 29, 2015

Schipperke said:
Tobytown is really something. In middle of nowhere, short walk to C&O canal. Homes 1/2 mile away $5-15M , Danny Snyder is close by. Tobytown folk get travel vouchers for taxi rides to use their EBT cards. Different class of poor in Potomac. Scotland kids go the best schools in the county in an effort to keep the mean GPA of the schools believable.

Tobytown has a history.

It was once 10 times greater in size and was land owned by a free black man who bought his freedom. His name was Mr. Toby. Unfortunately one day while tending to his farm he accidentally ran over a small white child with his wagon. Toby was given the chance to defer his hanging by giving up the majority of his land in return for his life. The reduced property/land was passed on to his relatives and became a poor black community called "shanty town". The property was to small to be a sustainable farm. The State of Maryland took over the property and built cheap townhouses on the land back in the 60's. The townhouses were maintained by the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commision until recently when the county decided to sell the units back to the original descendants of "Toby". The program to sell back and foster home ownership has been a mixed success. Some owners have improved their homes and work daily as proud home owners. Some have lost their homes due to not understanding the responsibilities of home ownership. Some units are still owned by the state and rented as section 8 rentals.

outrider58 · Sep 29, 2015

Afrikeber said:
Tobytown has a history.

It was once 10 times greater in size and was land owned by a free black man who bought his freedom. His name was Mr. Toby. Unfortunately one day while tending to his farm he accidentally ran over a small white child with his wagon. Toby was given the chance to defer his hanging by giving up the majority of his land in return for his life. The reduced property/land was passed on to his relatives and became a poor black community called "shanty town". The property was to small to be a sustainable farm. The State of Maryland took over the property and built cheap townhouses on the land back in the 60's. The townhouses were maintained by the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commision until recently when the county decided to sell the units back to the original descendants of "Toby". The program to sell back and foster home ownership has been a mixed success. Some owners have improved their homes and work daily as proud home owners. Some have lost their homes due to not understanding the responsibilities of home ownership. Some units are still owned by the state and rented as section 8 rentals.

That's a great history lesson I didn't know. Thanks Afrikeber. I will pas that along. I know a lot of people out there who are as ignorant of that as I WAS. :thumbsup:

OrangeAgent27 · Sep 29, 2015

Afrikeber said:
Tobytown has a history.

It was once 10 times greater in size and was land owned by a free black man who bought his freedom. His name was Mr. Toby. Unfortunately one day while tending to his farm he accidentally ran over a small white child with his wagon. Toby was given the chance to defer his hanging by giving up the majority of his land in return for his life. The reduced property/land was passed on to his relatives and became a poor black community called "shanty town". The property was to small to be a sustainable farm. The State of Maryland took over the property and built cheap townhouses on the land back in the 60's. The townhouses were maintained by the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commision until recently when the county decided to sell the units back to the original descendants of "Toby". The program to sell back and foster home ownership has been a mixed success. Some owners have improved their homes and work daily as proud home owners. Some have lost their homes due to not understanding the responsibilities of home ownership. Some units are still owned by the state and rented as section 8 rentals.

Holy cow! Never knew that. Thanks for sharing.

Schipperke · Sep 29, 2015

Scotland area was first purchased by an ex-slave, many acres, then his family and others moved there. Lincoln Park in Rockville was set up as a development for freed slaves in the 1890s. Gum Springs in Alexandria has some history too. I pass Tobytown often going to the C&O there.

Schipperke · Sep 29, 2015

JMintzer said:
Huh? They go to the schools they go to because that is where they live...

Well, yes. Check 5th grade math

swinokur · Sep 30, 2015

Actually Tobytown is named after.......

yep Toby.
.

Maverick0313 · Sep 30, 2015

outrider58 · Sep 30, 2015

Schipperke said:
Scotland area was first purchased by an ex-slave, many acres, then his family and others moved there. Lincoln Park in Rockville was set up as a development for freed slaves in the 1890s. Gum Springs in Alexandria has some history too. I pass Tobytown often going to the C&O there.

Good ol' Lincoln Park. Lived on the boarder of LP in Maryvale in Rockville for five years. My first house. Lots of stories from that era of my life....

Schipperke · Sep 30, 2015

I recall a resident from Lincoln Park asserting to remove the confederate statue in Rockville. His premise rang plausible to me as follows;

Recall Lincoln park was on the other side of the tracks founded in the 1890's. The confederate soldier was placed in square in the middle of town around 1912? , at crossroads, not unlike the soldier in Alexandria is placed in a traffic area. The resident said it was a message to those of Lincoln Park, stay out of our area. Looking back in history to those dates, hard to dismiss that.

JMintzer · Sep 30, 2015

Schipperke said:
Well, yes. Check 5th grade math

That's "an effort" on purpose?

Schipperke · Sep 30, 2015

JMintzer said:
That's "an effort" on purpose?

Don't know.

Bells Mill is no Potomac ES , but one of my kids goes to school across the county. Great email I got when I wrote a friend in that area my kid was going to the school there;

If he is going to that school you had better teach him how to make a "Shank", he can probably make one by taking some common items from the "health room".....

JMintzer · Sep 30, 2015

Schipperke said:
Don't know.

Bells Mill is no Potomac ES , but one of my kids goes to school across the county. Great email I got when I wrote a friend in that area my kid was going to the school there;

Gimme a break... :rolleyes:

Both Potomac ES and Bells Mills ES feed into Hoover Middle School (where my kids went) and then into Churchill (where my kids went) and there were very few problems...

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