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Banneker-Douglass Museum | Annapolis, MD

October 20, 2009 by lindsey  
Filed under Baltimore, Museums

Housed in the former the former Mt. Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church built by free blacks in 1874, the Banneker-Douglass Museum is dedicated to preserving Maryland’s African American heritage and serves as the state’s official repository of African American material culture. It was named for Benjamin Banneker, the Maryland-born mathematician who helped survey and lay [...]