Josiah Henson Museum & Park One Year Anniversary

Join us in celebrating the inaugural year of the Josiah Henson Museum & Park!  We will have light refreshments and $1 dollar admission for our guest of honor, YOU!

The Josiah Henson Museum & Park opened in April 2021  and is the first museum in the United States dedicated to Reverend Josiah Henson. It is built on the former plantation in North Bethesda where Henson was enslaved prior to self-emancipating to Canada.

The Josiah Henson Museum and Park tells the inspirational life story of Reverend Josiah Henson, who was born into slavery yet defied the odds to become an influential author, Methodist minister, abolitionist, public speaker, and a world-renowned figure. Among Henson’s many accomplishments was his 1849 autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, which inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s landmark anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.