The Annals of Sandy Spring

The Annals of Sandy Spring, a unique neighborhood history, were started in 1863 by Sandy Spring Quakers to record significant community events such as births, deaths, marriages, crop yields, new homes and barns, losses to fire and storm, and other happenings--and often the thoughtful reflections of the various chroniclers themselves. Across the decades the Annals broadened to include Sandy Springers outside the Friends faith. Every 20 years or so these records were published in a bound volume and sold to interested parties. They gained recognition among historians and sociologists as an unusual and invaluable profile of a slice of Americana.

Volume V carried the series to 1947. But there the Annals stopped. Several years ago the local Home Interest Society, founded in 1870 and long responsible for publishing the Annals, approached Tom Canby about continuing the series through 1962, to complete a century of record. At the same time his wife, Susan Fifer Canby, Director of Libraries and Indexing at the National Geographic Society, undertook to compile a detailed index of the existing five volumes and her husband's Volume VI-a colossal task.

Now the museum has published the 500-page Annals Volume VI, which carries both the written history (1947-62) and the six-volume Index. It also includes an Introduction describing the Annals and a history of the neighborhood from its Quaker founding in 1728 until the beginning of the Annals in 1863.

Volume VI (1947-1962) with Index of Volumes I-VI
$29.50 museum members/$34.50 non-members
Volumes I and IV are also available
$15.00 per copy

Sandy Spring Legacy

Dedicated to preserving the stories, photographs, and heritage of the settlers in this richly historic community. This beautiful book, written by Thomas Canby and Elie Rogers, formerly of National Geographic, provides reading and local history for all ages and will be passed on through generations. Brimming with stories and lore, family struggles and achievements- Sandy Spring Legacy contains over 500 photographs in attractive sepia tone.
$33.00members/$36.00 non members

All Sandy Spring Museum publications are available in the museum gift shop or by phone with a credit card.