Chevy Chase, Maryland Chevy Chase, Maryland A map showing the locale of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
A map showing the locale of Chevy Chase, Maryland.Chevy Chase Chevy Chase is the name of both a town and an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Maryland.
In addition, a number of villages in the same region of Montgomery County include "Chevy Chase" in their names.
This improve is roughly centered on Connecticut Avenue north of the District of Columbia and also includes a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., called Chevy Chase.
Chevy Chase is home to the National 4-H Youth Conference Center, where the National Science Bowl is held annually in either late April or early May. Chevy Chase is served by the Montgomery County Public School system.
(See Washington streetcars) The Chevy Chase Land Company was established in 1890, and its eventual holdings of more than 1,700 acres (6.9 km2) would extend along the present-day Connecticut Avenue from Florida Avenue north to Jones Bridge Road.
The Chevy Chase Land Company would build homes for no less than $5,000 on Connecticut Avenue or less than $3,000 on a side street. The name "Chevy Chase" was taken from one of the combined plots of land.
Its name in turn, as stated to the Village of Chevy Chase's official history, can be traced to the larger tract of territory called "Cheivy Chace" that was patented to Colonel Joseph Belt from Lord Baltimore on July 10, 1725.
Changed name to Chevy Chase College and Seminary for Young Ladies and then again to Chevy Chase Junior College in 1927.
As with many suburban suburbs throughout the United States amid the first half of the 20th century, Chevy Chase excluded individuals based on race and religion.
Three years earlier, the Chevy Chase Land Company had brought suit against a developer who had begun to sell lots to black citizens in a prepared subdivision called "Belmont" on the grounds that the developer had committed fraud by proposing "to sell lots...to negroes." Chevy Chase Village In addition to the above, the United States Postal Service uses Chevy Chase for postal addresses that lie in the Town of Somerset and the Village of Friendship Heights which lie outside historical Chevy Chase.
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