Montgomery Database of Confederate Links For Removal (Bethesda: university, subdivision)

[The Very Man Himself]

This issue goes well beyond the Talbot statue and isn't going away.
65 homeowners will need to change their address. M-NCPPC will ultimately decide.

There were 325 street names, 30 parks and six trails in the county that matched the surname of a Confederate.The county has identified 709 Confederate names — 269 of which were residents of the county and 440 of which were senior officers of the Confederate Army, who were not residents of the county and are nationally known names.The new database also has the names of more than 3,300 enslaved individuals and more than 5,800 names of people who enslaved them.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesd...eid=b1423745aa

[The Very Man Himself]

University benefactor Johns Hopkins was an enslaver.

Efforts at Johns Hopkins University to examine its institutional history led to the discovery that its namesake and benefactor Johns Hopkins, widely admired as an abolitionist, enslaved at least four people before the Civil War. (Post)

[Moth]

LOL!

A relative of mine lives on one of those streets. Irony abounds. The subdivision was only built in the early 80s. And it has always been a pretty diverse area.

Truth be told, it surprised me back then when they moved there. I would guess the developer was some old bull who pined for the old days.