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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25OS_the-rachel-carson-greenway_Brookeville-MD.html
In 2004, this trail corridor was named in honor of the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson. When complete, the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail will be 25 miles long, connecting the Anacostia Trail System in Prince George's Coun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25OR_mills-in-the-upcounty_Brookeville-MD.html
The streams of Montgomery County's Piedmont Region run faster and deeper than those of the Coastal Plain. Steam power fueled the early industrial age in Montgomery County in the late-18th and 19th centuries. Mills along the Hawlings River stream v…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25OQ_our-agricultural-heritage_Brookeville-MD.html
Until World War II, Montgomery County's economy and landscape were primarily agricultural. The American Indian tribes of the county grew corn, squash, and beans on their villages near streams. The earliest settlers from Europe grew tobacco for pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25OP_town-of-brookeville_Brookeville-MD.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NY_brookeville-academy_Brookeville-MD.html
The Brookeville Academy was founded in 1810 by the town's leading citizens and built largely with donated materials. The building began as a one-story structure that was raised to two stories in 1834. The Academy provided a well-rounded education …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NX_margaret-brooke-house_Brookeville-MD.html
One of the four federal style masonry houses that were standing in Brookeville in 1814, this house was built by real estate investor Caleb Pancoast about 1806 and sold shortly thereafter. In 1814 it was home of Margaret Brooke, the unmarried siste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NW_murphy-house_Brookeville-MD.html
Greenbury Murphy, Brookeville's first blacksmith, built this exceptionally fine Federal style house about 1807, financing its construction and that of a blacksmith shop with a mortgage from local merchant Caleb Bentley. The brick house, a hall-and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NV_the-moore-cottage_Brookeville-MD.html
The Moore built this worker's cottage, probably in the late 1790s. Moore was married to Mary Brooke, one of Deborah Thomas's sisters, and the Moores lived on a farm adjacent to Brookeville. Moore was a farmer, inventor, engineer and entrepreneur w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NU_valley-mill-house_Brookeville-MD.html
The original section of what is known as the Valley Mill House (on the right) consisted of a single-story, one-room stone cottage with a large open hearth and stair to a sleeping loft. David Newlin built it about 1800, adjacent to his mill complex…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NT_gassaway-house_Brookeville-MD.html
The Gassaway House was built about 1804 for Samuel and Anne Leeke. Brice John Gassaway purchased it in 1812 and he and his wife Dinah and two of their seven grown children were living here in 1814. Brice, a retired gentleman farmer from western An…