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Clarksburg is named for trader John Clarke, [5] and was established at the intersection of the main road between Georgetown and Frederick and an old Seneca trail. One of its earliest white inhabitants was a man named Michael Ashford Dowden, who in 1752 received a patent for 40 acres (160,000 m 2) from the colonial government called "Hammer Hill", and two years later permission to build an inn.
Maryland Route 355 (MD 355) is a 36.75-mile (59.14 km) north–south road in western central Maryland in the United States.The southern terminus of the route is in Bethesda in Montgomery County, where Wisconsin Avenue meets the county's border with Washington, D.C. [2] The northern terminus is just north of a bridge over Interstate 70 (I-70)/U.S. Route 40 (US 40) in the city of Frederick in ...
Strip park area (<1000 foot (300 m) width for more than 1/2 mile (800 m)) and public utility land (reservoirs) are excluded. Much of the 72,500 acres (293 km 2 ) Aberdeen Proving Grounds , Maryland. and 56,000 acres (230 km 2 ) Quantico Marine Base , Virginia [ 4 ] are undeveloped, and constitute the largest such areas within 30 miles (48 km ...
Clarksburg 1,058 Clarksburg, Daly, Fox Chapel, Gibbs, Little Bennett Shady Grove Middle School: Gaithersburg 495 Candlewood, Flower Hill, Mill Creek Towne Odessa Shannon Middle School (previously Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School) Silver Spring 823 Arcola, Glenallan, Kemp Mill Silver Creek Middle School: Kensington 778
Great Seneca Creek, 21.5 miles (34.6 km) long, [1] begins in Damascus and flows south past Montgomery Village, Germantown, Gaithersburg and Seneca Creek State Park. Little Seneca Creek, 14.0 miles (22.5 km) long, [1] rises in the Clarksburg area, flows south through Little Seneca Lake and Black Hill Regional Park, and the community of Boyds.
Little Seneca Creek is an 14.0-mile-long (22.5 km) [1] stream in Montgomery County, Maryland, roughly 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Washington, D.C. Geography [ edit ]
Takoma Park houses built between 1883 and 1900 are fanciful Queen Anne architecture. Buildings developed after the turn of the 20th century tend to be 1- to 2-story brick structures with simple ornamentation, although a few display characteristics of Art Deco or Tudor Revival.
[9] [10] The county highway between MD 95 at Comus and U.S. Route 240 (now MD 355) at Hyattstown was reconstructed as a macadam road by the Maryland State Roads Commission between 1936 and 1938. [11] [12] MD 109's bridge across Little Bennett Creek and its interchange with Washington National Pike (now I-270) were constructed between 1951 and ...