RIVERSDALE HOUSE MUSEUM 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park, MD 20737 House: Friday & Sunday, 12 noon–3:15 pm; or by appointment Visitor Center: Monday–Friday, 9 am–5 pm, and during tour hours 301-864-0420 / history.pgparks.com iversdale, the home of George Calvert and his R wife Rosalie, was a large estate where more than
50 enslaved African Americans labored through the years. An exhibit on Adam Francis Plummer, which Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution
highlights information from his 1841 diary, provides a rare, personal account of life as a slave on the
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Riversdale plantation. An exhibit in the Visitor Center on Plummer and his family focuses on their role in the community after emancipation.