Rockville is the county seat for Montgomery County
Brookeville is in Montgomery County
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On High Street (Maryland Route 97) just south of Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
Many Washington residents fleeing the British invasion in August 1814 converged on this quiet village. Brookeville also provided a haven for hungry soldiers as they headed for Baltimore following the American Defeat at Bladensburg. . . . — — Map (db m76403) HM
On High Street (Maryland Route 97) just south of Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
In this village President Madison and members of his official family found refuge in the home of Caleb Bentley, first Postmaster of Brookeville, following the burning of the Capitol and the White House by the British army. Many other refugees from . . . — — Map (db m363) HM
On Market Street, 0.1 miles east of North Street, on the left when traveling east.
Erected in ca. 1798, the Federal style Bentley House was the first substantial structure to be built in Brookeville. In 1814 it was the home of Caleb and Henrietta Bentley. Caleb was the town's first postmaster and merchant, and the house includes . . . — — Map (db m76398) HM
On Market Street east of South Street, on the right when traveling east.
The Briggs House was built in 1803 for Hannah 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 . . . — — Map (db m128850) HM
Established in 1962 by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, the Brighton Azalea Garden is the largest and most unique assortment of azaleas and native dogwood trees in Maryland. Paul H. Hancock, former WSSC Watershed Manager, developed the . . . — — Map (db m211887) HM
On High Street (Maryland Route 97) just south of Market Street (Maryland Route 97), on the right when traveling north.
On June 28, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart left Rockville with three cavalry brigades, 125 captured Union supply wagons, and more than 400 military and civilian prisoners, arriving in Brookeville that night. At every opportunity, prisoners . . . — — Map (db m366) HM
On High Street (Maryland Route 97) south of Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Brookeville Academy was founded in 1810 by the town's leading citizens and built largely with donated materials. The building began as a one-story structure that was raised to two stories in 1834. The Academy provided a well-rounded education to . . . — — Map (db m114387) HM
Near High Street (Maryland Route 97) just south of Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
Sculptor Stefan Saal created the Brookeville Angel over a three-month period in 1994 from a white oak tree (Quercus alba) located on the east side of Georgia Avenue (Rt. #97) south of town. "Father Don" (Donald Van Alstyne) of the Marian Fathers . . . — — Map (db m368) HM
On North Street, 0.1 miles north of Market Street, on the left when traveling north. Reported permanently removed.
The Brookville Schoolhouse sits upon land purchased for $300 in 1865, four years after the Maryland General Assembly established the Montgomery County public school system. At some subsequent point, the school began operation as a traditional . . . — — Map (db m114395) HM
On Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97) 0.1 miles north of Damascus Road (Maryland Route 650), on the left when traveling north. Reported missing.
May 15, 1862, with seventeen young Marylanders he organized First Maryland cavalry. He served consistently and gallantly, rising from Private to Lt. Colonel. Killed at South Anna River, Virginia, June 1, 1864. — — Map (db m362) HM
On Market Street north of Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97), on the right when traveling north.
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 Anne . . . — — Map (db m114392) HM
On Market Street, 0.1 miles east of North Street, on the left when traveling east.
In this house
August 26-27 1814
President
James Madison
and
Richard Rush
Attorney General • were
sheltered after the burning by the British of the public buildings at Washington
August 24-25, . . . — — Map (db m364) HM
On Market Street, 0.1 miles east of North Street, on the left when traveling east.
On August 26, 1814 this house provided shelter for President Madison and his official party during the British burning of the federal buildings in Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812.
The following day, August 27th, the Secretary of State . . . — — Map (db m365) HM
On Market Street (Maryland Route 97) at Water Street, on the right when traveling west on Market Street.
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 sister . . . — — Map (db m114388) HM
On Brighton Dam Road just east of Market Street, on the right when traveling east.
The Mill Worker's Cottage was one of three such structures built in the 1790s by town founder Richard Thomas to attract mill hands and other skilled workers to Brookeville. Like the Miller's Cottage across the street, it is banked into the hillside . . . — — Map (db m188494) HM
Near Zion Road south of Sundown Road, on the right when traveling north.
The streams of Montgomery County's Piedmont Region run faster and deeper than those of the Coastal Plain. Steam power fueled the early industrial age in Montgomery County in the late-18th and 19th centuries. Mills along the Hawlings River stream . . . — — Map (db m114415) HM
On Market Street (Maryland Route 97) west of Water Street, on the right when traveling north.
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 . . . — — Map (db m114389) HM
On Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97) at Brookeville Road, on the right when traveling south on Georgia Avenue.
In 1800, Thomas Moore, Jr. and his wife, Mary Brooke Moore sold to David Newlin four acres inherited from Mrs. Moore's father, Roger Brooke IV, described as "standing below Newlin's Mill dam". Initially, Newlin operated an oil mill on this site, . . . — — Map (db m369) HM
Near High Street (Maryland Route 97) south of Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
Newlin's Mill was located on the west side of Brookeville in the vicinity of Brookeville Road and Market Street (Route 97) and was operated from the early 19th century to the early 20th century. This versatile mill sawed lumber, pressed oil from . . . — — Map (db m367) HM
On Brookeville Road, 0.3 miles east of Grayhaven Manor Road, on the right when traveling east.
This log structure, acquired as part of Reddy Branch Stream Valley Park, was once part of Oakley Farm. Built before or just after emancipation, the cabin is representative of slave or tenant housing and is a rare surviving example. Reddy Branch, . . . — — Map (db m5415) HM
Near Zion Road south of Sundown Road, on the right when traveling north.
Until World War II, Montgomery County's economy and landscape were primarily agricultural. The American Indian tribes of the county grew corn, squash, and beans on their villages near streams. The earliest settlers from Europe grew tobacco for . . . — — Map (db m114417) HM
On Market Street, 0.1 miles east of North Street, on the left when traveling east.
Known as the Miller's House, this modest stone structure was likely built by the town's founder Richard Thomas, Jr. in the 1790s for the operator of his mill, which stood adjacent to this house, along Reedy Branch of the Hawlings River. The house . . . — — Map (db m76416) HM
On Market Street (Maryland Route 97) west of Water Street, on the right when traveling north.
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 who . . . — — Map (db m114390) HM
Near Zion Road south of Sundown Road, on the right when traveling north.
In 2004, this trail corridor was named in honor of the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson. When complete, the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail will be 25 miles long, connecting the Anacostia Trail System in Prince George's . . . — — Map (db m114413) HM
On Market Street east of South Street, on the right when traveling east.
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 . . . — — Map (db m114394) HM
On Market Street (Maryland Route 97) south of Brookeville Road, on the left when traveling north.
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, . . . — — Map (db m114391) HM