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Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3. Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie ...
The highway passes south of The Avalon School before it fully re-enters the city of Gaithersburg at its junction with Muddy Branch Road, east of which the highway drops to two lanes and reaches its eastern terminus at MD 117A, an unsigned connector between MD 117 and southbound MD 355 (Frederick Avenue). West Diamond Avenue continues east as a ...
The highway was completed when the concrete road was extended to MD 28 at Darnestown in 1934. [7] [8] MD 118 originally followed most of its present course. The highway followed what are today Liberty Mill Road and Walter Johnson Road through Old Germantown and Germantown and Boland Farm Road at its northern end at U.S. Route 240 (now MD 355). [9]
A fourth county library is close to those who live near River Road. [113] Potomac library opened in 1985, and has been upgraded since that time. [114] Priddy Library is part of the University of Maryland Libraries system and is located at the Universities at Shady Grove in North Potomac. [115] The Priddy Library opened in 2007. [116]
South of Airpark Road, which provides access to the airport, MD 124 expands to a six-lane divided highway, which it remains until Fieldcrest Road. North of that county road, the highway gradually drops lanes and the median until it is a two-lane highway at East Village Avenue, a county highway into the northeastern part of Montgomery Village.
MD 28 originally followed Baltimore Road between downtown Rockville and east of Rock Creek. [11] Between 1940 and 1944, MD 28 was placed on a new grade-separated crossing of the Metropolitan Branch along Veirs Mill Road, then north on First Street to Baltimore Road. [12] MD 28 was rolled back from Ashton to Norbeck between 1944 and 1946. [8]
Gaithersburg is located to the northwest of Washington, D.C., and is considered a suburb and a primary city within the Washington metropolitan area. Gaithersburg was incorporated as a town in 1878 and as a city in 1968. Gaithersburg is located east and west of Interstate 270. The eastern section includes the historic area of the town.
The library opened on June 1, 1930, at the corner of Carson and Florissant Road with 575 books in its collection. [4] Between 1930 and 1995, the library moved several times before securing a single-use building. [4] In 1966, Ferguson Municipal Public Library joined the Municipal Library Consortium of St. Louis County (MLC). [5]