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publicly owned greenway alongside Rock Creek tributary Turkey Branch, in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States

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Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 - March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together. He is best known for his participation in the 1908–1909 expedition that claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson said he was the first of their party to reach the North Pole.

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Alternative Names: Matthew Henson Trail • Matthew Henson Park • Matthew Henson Greenway Trail • Matthew Henson State Park Stream Valley Park

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Another world's accomplishment was done and finished, and as in the past, from the beginning of history, wherever the world's work was done by a white man, he had been accompanied by a colored man.

The ages of the wild, misgiving mystery of the North Pole are over, today, and forever it stands under the folds of Old Glory.

I think I'm the first person to sit on the top of the world.