Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park in Sandy Spring preserves sites and stories tied to the area's farm community, the Underground Railroad, Quakers, and enslaved and free African American communities. The park includes a manor house built in the 1800's, the Stone Barn and Carriage House as the Woodlawn Museum, and the Underground Railroad Experience Trail, established to honor the county's role in that historic network, including shelter given to fugitive slave Dred Scott in 1857 while the Supreme Court decided his fate. The trail passes woods, fields, streams, hollowed trees that may have served as food caches, boundary boulders that may have guided escaping slaves, the spring that gave Sandy Spring its name, and a 300-year-old white ash tree that would have served as a beacon for people fleeing slavery. The Josiah Henson Museum and Park stands on part of the former plantation of Isaac Riley, where Reverend Josiah Henson was enslaved from 1795 to 1830 before escaping to Canada and becoming an author and abolitionist who inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; it is the only site in the nation with a standing public structure directly associated with his life. The history of the Hill family at Holly Grove traces from Hazel Hill, born around 1766, through Edward Hill and Sophia Hill and their children Joseph A., Sarah E., Charles T., Mary R., Ann A., Edward M., and Martha; later records place Charles T. Hill at the Asa Stabler family farm and younger siblings with their uncle Remus Q. Hill, founder of the Cincinnati settlement. Charles T. Hill married Lucy Virginia Scott on November 25, 1886, had eight children, and bought a 150-acre farm on March 13, 1902, from Quaker Robert H. Millers. The family's later generations included Samuel T. Hill, who farmed on Norwood Road near Route 108 and raised 16 children, as well as Clifton "Kip" Hill, Warrick Hill, Robert Hackett, Bob Hill, Lena Hill Snowden, Charles Hill, and Eddie Hill; Ashton Elsie Waters is identified as the first Black registered nurse in Montgomery County, and a Hill horse show in the 1930s featured Charles Hill's team, Eddie Hill on horseback, and Warrick Hill as a child in the wagon.
