Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda, Maryland The intersection of Maryland Route 187 (Old Georgetown Road), Maryland Route 355 (Wisconsin Avenue), and Maryland Route 410 (East West Highway), near the Bethesda Metro station entrance, in downtown Bethesda.
The intersection of Maryland Route 187 (Old Georgetown Road), Maryland Route 355 (Wisconsin Avenue), and Maryland Route 410 (East West Highway), near the Bethesda Metro station entrance, in downtown Bethesda.
Boundaries of Bethesda CDP from U.S.
Boundaries of Bethesda CDP from U.S.
Location of Bethesda in Montgomery County, Maryland Location of Bethesda in Montgomery County, Maryland Bethesda is a census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, positioned just northwest of the U.S.
It takes its name from a small-town church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda. In Aramaic, beth esda means "House of Mercy" and in Hebrew, "beit esed" means "House of Kindness".
The National Institutes of Health chief campus and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center are in Bethesda, as are a number of corporate and government headquarters.
As an unincorporated area, Bethesda has no official boundaries.
The United States Enumeration Bureau defines a census-designated place titled Bethesda whose center is positioned at 38 59 N 77 7 W.
The United States Geological Survey has defined Bethesda as an region whose center is at 38 58 50 N 77 6 2 W, slightly different from the Enumeration Bureau's definition.
Other definitions are used by the Bethesda Urban Planning District, the United States Postal Service (which defines Bethesda to comprise the zip codes 20810, 20811, 20813, 20814, 20815, 20816, and 20817), and other organizations.
Most of Bethesda's inhabitants are in Maryland Legislative District 16.
Bethesda is situated along a primary thoroughfare that was originally the route of an ancient Native American trail.
The extractive nature of tobacco farming meant that colonists continued to push farther north in search of fertile land, and in 1694 Henry Darnell surveyed a 710-acre region that became the first territory grant in present-day Bethesda. Rural tobacco farming was the major way of life in Bethesda throughout the 1700s; while the establishment of Washington, D.C.
Between 1805 and 1821, the region of present-day Bethesda became a non-urban way station after evolution of a toll road, the Washington and Rockville Turnpike, which carried tobacco and other products between Georgetown and Rockville, and north to Frederick.
The settlement was retitled in 1871 by the new postmaster, Robert Franck, after the Bethesda Meeting House, a Presbyterian church assembled in 1820 on the present site of the Cemetery of the Bethesda Meeting House.
Throughout most of the 19th century, Bethesda never advanced beyond a small crossroads village, consisting of a postal service, a blacksmith shop, a church and school, and a several homes and stores.
It was not until the installation of a streetcar line in 1890 and the beginnings of suburbanization in the early 1900s that Bethesda began to expanded in population.
Until that time, dependence on adjacency to rail lines insulated Bethesda from growth, even as encircling communities positioned directly on these lines blossomed.
The arrival of the personal automobile ended this dependency, and Bethesda creators interval the improve with the newest transit revolution in mind. That war, and the expansion of government that it created, further fed the rapid expansion of Bethesda.
In recent years, Bethesda has merged as the primary urban core and employment center of southwestern Montgomery County. This recent expansion has been decidedly vigorous following the expansion of Metrorail with a station in Bethesda in 1984.
Alan Kay assembled the Bethesda Metro Center over the Red line metro rail which opened up further commercial and residentiary evolution in the immediate vicinity. The chief commercial corridor that runs through Bethesda is Maryland Route 355 (known as Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda and as Rockville Pike and Hungerford Drive in more northern communities), which, to the north, joins Bethesda with the communities of North Bethesda and Rockville, ending, after a several name changes, in Frederick, Maryland.
Toward the South, Rockville Pike becomes Wisconsin Avenue near the NIH Campus and continues beyond Bethesda through Chevy Chase, Friendship Heights and into Washington, D.C., ending in Georgetown.
The region commonly known as "Downtown Bethesda" is centered at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue, Old Georgetown Road and East-West Highway.
Other focal points of downtown Bethesda include the Woodmont Triangle, bordered by Old Georgetown Road (Maryland Route 187), Woodmont and Rugby Avenues, and the Bethesda Row, centered at the intersection of Woodmont Avenue and Bethesda Avenue.
Much of the dense assembly in that region followed the opening of the Bethesda station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro rapid transit system, also positioned at this intersection and the centerpiece of the Bethesda Metro Center development.
The Medical Center Metro stop lies about 0.7 miles north of the Bethesda stop, Medical Center, which serves the NIH Campus, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Bethesda is a very wealthy and well-educated area.
According to the 2000 Census, Bethesda was the best-educated town/city in the United States of America with a populace of 50,000 or more.
The average price of a four bedroom, two bath home in Bethesda in 2010 was $806,817 (which rates it as the twentieth most expensive improve in America). Bethesda is often associated with its neighboring communities, Potomac, Maryland, Chevy Chase, Maryland, Great Falls, Virginia, and Mc - Lean, Virginia for their similar demographics.
In April 2009, Forbes ranked Bethesda second on its list of "America's Most Livable Cities." In October 2009, based on education, income, health, and fitness, Total Beauty ranked Bethesda first on its list of the U.S.'s "Top 10 Hottest-Guy Cities." In 2009, Self periodical ranked Bethesda as the second healthiest place for women in the country, a year after being ranked number one. As of 2009, 8 Pulitzer Prize winners live in Bethesda, as do a several well-known political commentators (including George Will, David Brooks, and Thomas Friedman). An aerial view of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.
Important medical establishments positioned in Bethesda include the National Institutes of Health campus, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and the adjoining Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, as well as a number of other military medical and research establishments.
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Software business Bethesda Softworks was originally positioned in Bethesda, but moved to Rockville, Maryland, in 1990.
On the experienced services side, various banks (PNC, Capital One Bank) brokerage firms (Smith - Barney, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Fidelity) and law firms (Ballard Spahr, JDKatz, Paley Rothman, Lerch Early & Brewer) maintain offices in Bethesda.
Bethesda has two farmers markets, the Montgomery Farm Woman's Cooperative Market and the Bethesda Central Farmer's Market.
Bethesda Avenue at evening Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRIT) has advanced much of the west side of downtown Bethesda into an region called Bethesda Row.
Also positioned in downtown Bethesda is one of the Madonna of the Trail monuments, erected by the National Old Trails Association working in concert with the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Nearby is the Bethesda Post Office.
Also starting in the heart of downtown Bethesda, is the Capital Crescent Trail which follows the old tracks of the B&O Railroad stretching from Georgetown, Washington, D.C., to Silver Spring, MD.
Walter Reed Medical Center and the Bethesda Theater are two meaningful Art Deco architectural structures in the suburbs encircling Washington, D.C.
Bethesda is the home of Congressional Country Club, which is recognized as one of the most prestigious nation clubs in the world.
Bethesda is also home of the exclusive Burning Tree Club, the Bethesda Country Club, and the Bethesda Community Baseball Club, which operates the Bethesda Big Train, a summer collegiate baseball team.
A number of ambassador residences are in Bethesda, including Bangladesh, Cape Verde, Guyana, Honduras, Lesotho, Morocco, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe. Public major schools positioned in Bethesda include: Bethesda Elementary School Public middle schools positioned in Bethesda include: North Bethesda Middle School Public high schools positioned in Bethesda include: Walter Johnson High School (in North Bethesda) Private schools positioned in Bethesda include: Bethesda Community School Bethesda is also home to a federally funded and directed community science university, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU).
Edward Hebert School of Medicine, a medical school, and the Graduate School of Nursing, a nursing school.
The Washington Japanese Language School (WJLS, Washington Nihongo Gakko), a supplementary weekend Japanese school, holds its classes at the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda. The WJLS maintains its school office in North Bethesda, adjoining to Garrett Park. The institution, giving supplemental education to Japanese-speaking kids in the Washington, D.C.
The Writer's Center in Bethesda prints Poet Lore, the longest continuously running poetry journal in the United States. Notable companies based in Bethesda include: Downtown Bethesda is managed by Bethesa Urban Partnership, a non-profit organization established in 1994 by Montgomery County.
Washington Metro's Red Line services two major locations in Bethesda: the downtown region at the Bethesda, and the region near the National Institutes of Health and the Walter Reed Medical Center at the Medical Center Washington Metro stations.
The Montgomery County Ride On bus fitness also has a several routes through Bethesda.
Bethesda Circulator, a no-charge loop bus that operates Monday-Saturday and covers most of downtown Bethesda.
Long-distance buses include Vamoose Bus and Tripper Bus, both of which furnish service from downtown Bethesda to the adjacency of Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Tripper Bus, a privately owned company, provides service from Bethesda at the southwest corner of Elm Street and Wisconsin Ave to New York City between 8th and 9th Ave near Penn Station, in close to adjacency to Port Authority Bus Terminal. Bethesda is featured in the 1993 movie Dave, the 1994 movie True Lies, the 1999 movie Random Hearts, the 2003 movie Shattered Glass, the 2005 movie The Pacifier, and the 2012 movie The Bourne Legacy.
Bethesda is mentioned in a 1994 episode of The Simpsons, a 2009 episode of 24, a 2013 episode of Family Guy, a 2013 episode of Homeland, and a 2013 episode of Scandal.
Bethesda is featured in the book series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, written by American author Ann Brashares, who has ties to the area.
The town of Bethesda itself is featured in Fallout 3.
Bethesda is claimed to be "Where the diners are famed for / Waitresses so rude" in the Joan of Arc song "To've Had Two Of".
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Supreme Court, Bethesda Magazine (March 16, 2016).
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"Bethesda Big Train Gearing Up For Holiday Auction".
"Bethesda native Katie Ledecky smashes swimming records in Russia".
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