Editing Sandy Spring, Maryland (section)

===Sandy Spring Museum===
[[File:Sandy Spring Museum Sign in Sandy Spring MD.jpg|thumb|The sign for the Sandy Spring Museum in Sandy Spring, Maryland as photographed in September 2020.]]
An insurance salesman and auctioneer named Delmas Wood started the [[Sandy Spring Museum]] in 1980 because he thought Sandy Spring's history was gradually being lost as older residents died.<ref name= meyer>{{cite news |title= Museum and Residents Bear Witness To Quaker Tradition of Sandy Spring |first= Eugene L. |last= Meyer |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= October 10, 1985 |page= MD1 |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/138493297/0 }}</ref> Wood wanted a place to preserve antique furniture, farm equipment, photographs, paintings, and documents of the Sandy Spring area.<ref name= past>{{cite news |title= A Window Into Town's Past |last= Bernstein |first= Adam |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= August 24, 2000 |page= M21 |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/408669584/ }}</ref> Florence Virginia Barrett Lehman also helped found the museum.<ref name= Lehman>{{cite news |title= Florence Lehman, a former Herald reporter, at 84 |format= obituary |work= Boston Herald |date= March 4, 1996 |url= http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=1026991DBB26DC3D&p_docnum=4&p_queryname=2 }}</ref>

The museum was originally located in the basement of a [[Sandy Spring Bank|Sandy Spring National Bank]] branch in [[Olney, Maryland|Olney]].<ref name= town/> In October 1986,<ref name= guide>{{cite news |title= Maryland Museum Guide |last= Kessler |first= Pamela |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= June 6, 1986 |page= M14 |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/139043435/ }}</ref> it moved to Tall Timbers, a brick four-story [[American colonial architecture|Colonial]] house that had been the home of Gladys Brooke Tumbleson, who had died earlier that year.<ref name= meyer/> Tumbleson descended from the Brooke family, for which nearby [[Brookeville, Maryland|Brookeville]] was named.<ref name= meyer/> Tumbleson sold the building to the museum for less than market value.<ref name= meyer/>

Helen Bentley donated {{convert|7.5|acres|m2}} of land on Bentley Road in Sandy Spring to the museum in 1994.<ref name= past/> The museum's new building on opened in 1997, providing more room for the museum's exhibits.<ref name= town>{{cite news |title= Town's Quaker Roots A Calming Influence |last= Ruben |first= Barbara |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= September 8, 2001 |page= J1 |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/409140595/ }}</ref>

In 2007, an addition opened, providing a research library and a collections storage facility for the museum.<ref name= ourstory>{{cite web |title= Our Story |work= Sandy Spring Museum |access-date= October 28, 2015 |url= http://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/about-us/our-story/ }}</ref>