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Montgomery County, Maryland

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82historic places

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1776formed

1,062,061pop. 2020

32cemeteries

3CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 82 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 5 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Rockville, Poolesville, Bethesda.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Maryland is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Montgomery titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

34 of 82 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

82 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Annington	Poolesville	Building	1978
Beale, Edward, House	Potomac	Building	1996
Beall-Dawson House	Rockville	Building	1973
Belt, J. A., Building	Gaithersburg	Building	1984
Bethesda Meetinghouse	Bethesda	Building	1977
Bethesda Naval Hospital Tower	Bethesda	Building	1977
Bethesda Theatre	Bethesda	Building	1999
Bingham-Brewer House	Rockville	Building	1980
Brookeville Historic District	Brookeville	District	1979
Brookeville Woolen Mill and House	Brookeville	District	1978
Cabin John Aqueduct	Glen Echo	Structure	1973
Carderock Springs Historic District	Bethesda	District	2008
Carousel at Glen Echo Park	Glen Echo	Structure	1980
Carson, Rachel, House NHL	Silver Spring	Building	1991
Chautauqua Tower	Glen Echo	Building	1980
Chiswell's Inheritance	Poolesville	Building	1974
Clara Barton National Historic Site NHL	Glen Echo	Building	1966
Clarksburg School	Clarksburg	Building	1975
Clifton	Ednor	Building	1974
Clover Hill	Brookeville	Building	1982
Darnall Place	Poolesville	Building	1979
Davis-Warner House	Takoma Park	Building	2001
Dawson Farm	Rockville	Building	1985
Dowden's Luck	Poolesville	Building	1988
Drury-Austin House	Boyds	Building	1986
East Oaks	Poolesville	District	1996
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Cottage NHL	Rockville	Building
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Cottage NHL	Rockville	Building
Friends Advice	Boyds	District	1992
Gaithersburg B & O Railroad Station and Freight Shed	Gaithersburg	Building	1978
Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory NHL	Gaithersburg	District	1985
Garrett Park Historic District	Garrett Park	District	1975
Glen Echo Park Historic District	Glen Echo	District	1984
Glenview Farm	Rockville	Building	2007
Hammond Wood Historic District	Silver Spring	District	2004
Hanover Farm House	Beallsville	Building	1980
Johnson-Wolfe Farm	Comus	Building	2003
Kensington Historic District	Kensington	District	1980
Krieger, Seymour, House	Bethesda	Building	2008
Layton House	Laytonsville	Building	1975
Mesrobian, Mihran, House	Chevy Chase	Building	2017
Milimar	Silver Spring	Building	1973
Milton	Bethesda	Building	1975
Montgomery County Courthouse Historic District	Rockville	District	1986
Montrose Schoolhouse	Rockville	Building	1983
Moreland	Bethesda	Building	2005
Mt. Nebo	Poolesville	Building	1985
NIST Historic District	Gaithersburg	District	2021
National Park Seminary Historic District	Forest Glen	District	1972
Naval Ordnance Laboratory	Silver Spring	District	2025
New Mark Commons	Rockville	District	2017
Oaks II	Laytonsville	Building	1982
Old Chiswell Place	Poolesville	Building	1975
Polychrome Historic District	Silver Spring	Building	1996
Poole, Nathan Dickerson, House	Poolesville	Building	1983
Poolesville Historic District	Poolesville and	District	1975
Ridge, The	Derwood	Building	1988
Riley-Bolten House	North Bethesda	Building	2011
River Road Unitarian Church	Bethesda	Building	2025
Rock Creek Woods Historic District	Silver Spring	District	2004
Rockville Park Historic District	Rockville	District	2011
Rockville Railroad Station	Rockville	Building	1974
Salmon-Stohlman House	Chevy Chase	Building	2002
Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse	Sandy Spring	Building	1972
Seneca Historic District	Poolesville	District	1978
Seneca Quarry	Seneca	Site	1973
Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station	Silver Spring	Building	2000
Susanna Farm	Dawsonville	Building	1983
Takoma Avenue Historic District	Takoma Park	District	2004
Takoma Park Historic District	Takoma Park	District	1976
Taylor, David W., Model Basin	Bethesda	Building	1985
Third Addition to Rockville and Old St. Mary's Church and Cemetery	Rockville	District	1978
Thomas and Company Cannery	Gaithersburg	Building	1990
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission	Germantown	Building	2016
Valhalla	Poolesville	Building	1982
Walker Prehistoric Village Archeological Site	Poolesville	Site	1975
Washington Grove Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Washington Grove	District	1980
Washington Grove Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Washington Grove	District	2020
West Montgomery Avenue Historic District	Rockville	District	1975
Wiley-Ringland House	Chevy Chase	Building	2000
Woodend	Chevy Chase	Building	1980
Wright, Robert Llewellyn, House	Bethesda	Building	1986

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Montgomery was formed in 1776 (1776-10-02) from Frederick.

MONTGOMERY created from FREDERICK.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Montgomery County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
18,003	15,058	16,400	15,456	18,322	24,759	30,451	34,921	83,912	164,401	340,928	579,053	873,341	1,062,061

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Great Falls Park	Park unit	16.6 km
Monocacy National Battlefield	Park unit	30.3 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

32 cemeteries and 8 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 32 of 32 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Asbury United Methodist Cemetery	39.14204	-77.2972
Aspin Hill Memorial Park	39.07956	-77.07662
Beall Cemetery	39.08817	-77.06118
Bethesda United Methodist Church Cemetery	39.31376	-77.24754
Bonifant Family Cemetery	39.09088	-77.0219
Boyds Presbyterian Church Cemetery	39.18199	-77.31496
Darnestown Presbyterian Church Cemetery	39.10194	-77.28597
Elton Cemetery	39.23137	-77.04763
Gate of Heaven Cemetery	39.08305	-77.07398
Goshen Mennonite Church Cemetery	39.20708	-77.17366
Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery	39.00555	-77.03775
Hyattstown Christian Church Cemetery	39.27717	-77.31304
Hyattstown United Methodist Church Cemetery	39.28527	-77.31398
Monocacy Cemetery	39.18028	-77.41547
Montgomery United Methodist Church Cemetery	39.319	-77.19864
Mount Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery	39.22726	-77.41657
Neelsville Presbyterian Cemetery	39.19566	-77.24332
New Saint Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery	39.08316	-77.12665
Norbeck Memorial Park	39.12259	-77.0723
Parklawn Memorial Park and Menorah Gardens	39.06439	-77.10647
Rockville Cemetery	39.08455	-77.12581
Saint Gabriel Cemetery	39.0068	-77.22624
Saint John's Episcopal Cemetery	39.15484	-77.06801
Saint Lukes Episcopal Church Cemetery	39.19328	-77.02737
Saint Marks United Methodist Church Cemetery	39.17783	-77.32043
Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery	39.22025	-77.38086
Saint Patricks Cemetery	39.02538	-77.08081
Saint Paul Community Cemetery	39.09805	-77.38386
Saint Paul Methodist Church Cemetery	39.21368	-77.1435
Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery	39.17839	-77.05744
Sugar Loaf Mountain Chapel Cemetery	39.26121	-77.3444
Union Cemetery	39.1097	-76.94996

Historical populated places — 8 of 8

Name	Lat	Lon
Cider Barrel Motor Home Court	39.19072	-77.24329
Forest Grove	39.01705	-77.04081
Forestvale	39.01928	-77.04137
Log Town	39.13677	-77.1947
Monocacy	39.21121	-77.46499
Triadelphia	39.23344	-77.04137
Waring	39.16011	-77.25137
Windham	39.04316	-77.09831

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Dranesville	1,264	19.9 km	VA007
Balls Bluff	80	28.0 km	VA006
Monocacy	6,768	31.3 km	MD007

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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