In 1910, Village of Chevy Chase Incorporated ...
In 1910, St. John's Episcopal/Anglican Church in Mount Ranier celebrates it's first anniversary ...
In 1910, Rockville celebrates 50th anniversary (although it's been around since the mid-1700's) ...
In 1910, St. Johns Episcopal Church in Olney was rolled on logs to it's current site ...
In 1912, The Chapel of St. Peters in Poolesville was rebuilt after the original chapel was burned down by union soldiers. (the adjacent cemetary includes many Poolesville residents who had fought for the South) ...
In 1914, the city incorporation of Damascus was dissolved by a request of the new city government, the state had a program to connect the counties with the port city of Baltimore. The programs could not pave roads in incorporated towns. The incorporation was dissolved to build route 27(originally Rt. 29, but switched to Rt. 27 a year later) through Damascus to the national road leading to Baltimore. In the mid 1920's, the road from Damascus (Rt. 108) to Laytonsville -- Damascus Rd. -- was paved as a two-lane concrete road. Local landowners planted sycamore trees along a four-mile stretch of road between Jarl Drive and Griffith Road as a statewide beautification project. Woodfield Road (Rt. 124) was paved about 1932 ...
In 1918, the state legislature created the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to improve water and sewer service -- a sign of the suburban growth ...
In 1920, Montgomery General Hospital in Olney opened...
After 1922, the County began hiring full-time police officers ...
In 1923, an entire Poolesville city block -- from Elgin Road to the old Kohlhoss House -- burned down ...
In 1928, the Asbury Viiage in Gaithersburg was built (originally called "Methodist Home for the Aged") ...
In 1937, Washington Grove incorporated ...
In 1938, NIH is established ...
During World War II, Housing construction and suburban growth came to a halt, but the County's first skyscraper, the 20-story Bethesda Naval Medical Center, was completed...
In 1975, the Layton House (SW corner of MD 108 and Brink Rd) in Laytonsville was added to the National Register of Historic Places because of it's superior architecture...
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