The Montgomery County Planning Department will hold a work session next week on the proposed Josiah Henson Special Park master plan. Today, the Montgomery County Parks Department posted its staff memo to the Planning Board detailing its cost estimates to develop the park. Parks Department staff estimates that it will cost between $3 and $5 million to implement the option recommended at the October 28, 2010 hearing.

The December 2 Planning Board agenda and Parks Department documents are now available at the Planning Board Website.

In a related development, Montgomery Preservation, Inc., has put up an “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” page at its Website with what they suggest is “the real story.” Stay tuned for more on that effort.

Related Pages and Sites

• Were MoCo and MD State government officials and the press duped in 2006 about the real “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? (H4H)
• Montgomery refuses to release “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” records (Greater Greater Washington)
• Local Historian Urges Historical Accuracy (Bethesda Patch)
• Memo to MoCo Parks Planners: Don’t Disclose Archaeological Data (H4H)
• Fudging the truth: a tradition as old as Uncle Tom (Stephen Marche, Toronto Globe and Mail)
• Not quite ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ but maybe something better … (Seth Trainor, Pennsylvania State University)
• Preservation Round-Up: Snafu! Edition (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
• Historian for Hire Interviewed on the Takeway (H4H)
• Unmaking Uncle Tom’s Cabin (H4H)

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