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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NS_briggs-house_Brookeville-MD.html
The Briggs House was built in 1803 for Hanna Brooke Briggs and her husband Isaac Briggs, who were still living here in 1814. The Briggses also owned a house and farm known as Sharon in Sandy Spring. Hannah, a devout Quaker, married Isaac Briggs in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NR_thomas-house-site_Brookeville-MD.html
Richard Thomas, Jr. and his wife, Deborah Brooke Thomas, the founders of the town of Brookeville, built their large frame house here ca. 1801. In 1814, they were living here with their five children. The town was established on land that Deborah i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25EP_11333-woodglen-drive_North-Bethesda-MD.html
On this building,
11333 Woodglen Drive,
the first
"Green Roof"
in Montgomery County
was built in 2004.
This roof provides for reduced energy consumption in the building and also provides for a natural filtration and collection system for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25EO_alluvium-is-an-artwork-by-jim-sanborn_North-Bethesda-MD.html
"Alluvium" is an artwork by Jim Sanborn
The following is a list of the translations, transcriptions, and sources for the texts on the screen
John Smith 1612 AD "There is but one entrance by sea into this country, and that is at the muth of a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25D6_general-george-w-getty-u-s-a_Silver-Spring-MD.html
George Washington Getty was born in Washington, D.C. on October 2, 1819. He graduated from the U.S Military Academy in West Point in 1840 and served in Michigan at Fort Monroe, Virginia. He was a captain of artillery in the Mexican War (1847-48), …