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Chevy Chase (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ v iː tʃ eɪ s /) is the colloquial name of an area that includes a town, several incorporated villages, and an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland; and one adjoining neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C.
Chevy Chase (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ v iː tʃ eɪ s /)—formally, the Town of Chevy Chase—is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,904 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ]
Around 1886 or 1887, Newlands launched an all-but-unprecedented effort to create a major streetcar suburb of Washington, D.C. Using his inheritance from his deceased wife's father, and attracting other investment partners—particularly Nevada politicians known as the "California Syndicate"—Newlands directed the quiet purchase of land along a straight line from just north of Dupont Circle ...
The Francis Griffith Newlands Memorial Fountain is in Chevy Chase Circle, a federal park that divides D.C. and Maryland. In 2014, a member of the Chevy Chase advisory neighborhood commission proposed a resolution calling for the removal of Newlands' name from the fountain because of his white supremacist views on race, including his desire to ...
Intersection of 31st St. and Legation St. NW, July 2021, in Chevy Chase. In the late 1880s, then-Representative Francis G. Newlands of Nevada and his partners began to buy up farmland in northwest Washington, D.C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland, to develop a residential streetcar suburb.
The Chevy Chase Lake & Kensington Railway attracted no bidders for months, but was purchased at last in July 1902 by George E. Emmons of Washington, D.C. [1] Emmons turned out to be acting on behalf of several of the officers of the CCL&K, and on August 14, 1902, they incorporated the Kensington Railway Company to try their hands again, announcing new plans to extend the line to Garrett Park ...
Chevy Chase Lake was a trolley park in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, that operated from 1894 until about 1936. [1] It was created by the Chevy Chase Land Company , which sought to draw residents of Washington, D.C. , to its nascent suburb of Chevy Chase . [ 1 ]
Chevy Chase (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ v iː tʃ eɪ s /) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,176 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ]