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The Agricultural Reserve is a designated land use zone in Montgomery County, Maryland. The 93,000 acres (380 km 2 ) zone was created in 1980 by the Montgomery County Council to preserve farm land and rural space in the northwestern part of the county.
Some jurisdictions further subdivide agricultural zones to distinguish industrial farming from uses like rural residence farms and retirement farms on large lots. [3] One example of such zoning is the Agricultural Reserve in Montgomery County, Maryland. The reserve was established in 1980 to preserve farmland and rural space. [4]
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The Maryland state legislature named Montgomery County after Richard Montgomery; the county was created from lands that had at one point or another been part of Frederick County. [14] On September 6, 1776, [ 3 ] Thomas Sprigg Wootton from Rockville, Maryland, introduced legislation, while serving at the Maryland Constitutional Convention, to ...
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The first documented Africans were brought to Maryland in 1642, as 13 slaves at St. Mary's City, the first English settlement in the Province. [1] Slave labor made possible the export-driven plantation economy. The English observer William Strickland wrote of agriculture in Virginia and Maryland in the 1790s:
Broad Run is a tributary stream of the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland. The headwaters of the stream originate west of the town of Poolesville, and the creek flows southward for 8.9 miles (14.3 km) [1] to the Potomac River. [2] The Broad Run and its watershed are almost entirely within the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve.
Transportation in Montgomery County, Maryland (2 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Montgomery County, Maryland" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.