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U.S. 1 is a major north-south roadway running through Mount Rainier, serving as the main street in the downtown area. It leads to College Park and Baltimore to the north and Washington, D.C. to the south. Two other state highways serving Mount Rainier are Maryland Route 500 and Maryland Route 501, both of which skim the northwestern edge of the ...
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The Mount Rainier Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland, which began as a streetcar suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C. The district was built on a gently rolling rural landscape from about 1900 to 1940.
The highway leaves Mount Rainier and enters Brentwood, where the highway meets Maryland Route 208 (MD 208; 38th Street). US 1 passes through North Brentwood as a four-lane divided highway without parking through a mix of residences and commercial establishments.
This is a locator map showing Prince George's County in Maryland. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
The first portion of what is now MD 208 was paved between Bladensburg Road and Rhode Island Avenue between 1916 and 1919. [3] This 1-mile-long (1.6 km) concrete road included Rhode Island Avenue from 38th Street to 34th Street in Mount Rainier and part of 34th Street to the north.
The Nisqually Entrance Historic District comprises the first public entrance to Mount Rainier National Park.The district incorporates the log entrance arch typical of all Mount Rainier entrances, a log frame ranger station and checking station, a comfort station and miscellaneous service structures, all built around 1926, as well as the 1915 Superintendent's Residence and the 1908 Oscar Brown ...
By 1915, the Maryland segment of Queens Chapel Road from the District of Columbia boundary to just south of Ager Road was paved as a 14-foot-wide (4.3 m) concrete road by Prince George's County with state aid. [4] [5] The pavement was extended to Ager Road when that road and Hamilton Street were paved by the Maryland State Roads Commission in 1923.