Daily podium trophy
The Triadelphia Bell
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Sherwood colors
In 1809, three Quaker brothers-in-law, Thomas Moore, Isaac Briggs, and Caleb
Bentley, founded a mill town on the Patuxent River and named it
Triadelphia, "three brothers." By the 1830s it was a thriving village of
mills and shops, and its 1837 bell rang out each morning to call the mill
hands to work.
Great floods in 1868 and 1889 destroyed the town, and in 1943 Brighton Dam
submerged what remained beneath the reservoir that now bears its name. The bell
survived it all. Today it stands outside Sherwood High School, just down
the road from every spot in this game.
That's the bell on these trophies. Third place rings in Sherwood's colors, in
honor of where the real one still stands.
Weekly podium trophy
The Sandy Spring
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Long before there was an Olney, there was a spring. Quaker families began
settling this stretch of countryside in the 1720s, and they named their
community for the little spring that bubbled up through sandy soil near what
is now Meeting House Road. The name stuck: Sandy Spring.
The village grew up around the Friends Meeting House, built in 1817
and still in use every First Day. Sandy Spring's Quakers freed the people they
had enslaved decades before the Civil War, and the community of Friends and
free Black families that grew here became a documented stop on the
Underground Railroad. Their descendants founded the Sandy Spring Bank,
the local fire company, and the museum that keeps the story alive today.
The spring itself is still there, ringed in old fieldstone in a quiet hollow
below the meeting house. That stone arch and the water at its foot are what
you earn for a week at the top of the standings.
