To celebrate a great man’s 292nd birthday, I visited the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum near Ellicott City with my friend, Jon Chapman, and my rescue retriever, Millie.

Rachel Jamison Webster’s family history, ‘Benjamin Banneker and Us,’ is a thoughtful blend of research, conversation and imagination March 21, 2023 More than 2 years ago 8 min Summary ...

Rachel Jamison Webster learned she is related to Benjamin Banneker at a cousin's wedding. The news was unexpected, not only because of Banneker's place in history but also because the author is white.

Benjamin Banneker was born in Baltimore County, near the village of Ellicott’s Mills, in the year 1732. There was not a drop of the white man’s blood in his veins.

That includes astronomer, mathematician, and early cicada researcher Benjamin Banneker. As a freeman born 1731, he was also one of the first important African American intellectuals.

The Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum in Catonsville hosted a Maple Sugaring event, teaching people how to tap maple trees and make all natural syrup and sugar, February 12, 2022.

The Afro-Caribbean eatery (pronounced “Doh-gon”) pays tribute to Washington D.C.’s late-1700s land surveyor Benjamin Banneker and his connections to the West African Dōgon tribe, DC Eater ...

Rachel Jamison Webster learned she is related to Benjamin Banneker at a cousin's wedding. The news was unexpected, not only because of Banneker's place in history but also because the author is white.