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Mount Rainier (/ r eɪ ˈ n ɪər /) is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, bordering Washington D.C. [2] The population was 8,333 at the 2020 census. [3]
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.
MD 208 originally began in Mount Rainier at Rhode Island Avenue, which was MD 411 before it became part of US 1. The highway followed 34th Street north to Taylor Street, followed that east into Brentwood to 37th Street, took that north to Windom Road, and rejoined the modern route of MD 208 at 38th Street.
When originally designated in 1926, US 1 entered Washington DC on Bladensburg Road. The old route then continued on Maryland Avenue and turned south on 1st Street, where it then turns left into the U.S. Capitol grounds. US 1 went around the Capitol, making its way to Pennsylvania Avenue. The route continues on Pennsylvania Avenue to 14th Street ...
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 ...
The snowcapped peak of Mount Rainier, which towers 4.3 kilometers (2.7 miles) above sea level in Washington state, has not produced a significant volcanic eruption in the past 1,000 years.
View north along MD 500 at MD 501 in Mount Rainier. MD 500 begins in Maryland at an intersection with Eastern Avenue at the District of Columbia boundary in Avondale, Maryland. In Washington D.C., the road becomes Michigan Avenue. In Maryland, MD 500 heads northeast as a four-lane divided highway.
Maryland Route 501 (MD 501) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Chillum Road, the state highway runs 1.68 miles (2.70 km) from MD 212 in Chillum east to MD 500 in Mount Rainier. MD 501, which is the main east–west highway through Chillum in northwestern Prince George's County, was constructed in the early 1930s.