Rockville, Maryland Rockville, Maryland Downtown Rockville in 2001, the Montgomery County Judicial Center in 2010, the Rockville Town Square in 2010, the Beall-Dawson House in 2005, and downtown Rockville in 2008.
Downtown Rockville in 2001, the Montgomery County Judicial Center in 2010, the Rockville Town Square in 2010, the Beall-Dawson House in 2005, and downtown Rockville in 2008.
Flag of Rockville, Maryland Flag Official seal of Rockville, Maryland Coat of arms of Rockville, Maryland Rockville is positioned in Maryland Rockville - Rockville Rockville is a town/city located in the central region of Montgomery County, Maryland.
It is the governmental center of county and is a primary incorporated town/city of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore Washington urbane area.
The 2010 census tabulated Rockville's populace at 61,209, making it the third biggest incorporated town/city in Maryland, behind Baltimore and Frederick.
Rockville is the biggest incorporated town/city in Montgomery County, Maryland, although the close-by census-designated place of Germantown is more populous. Rockville, along with neighboring Gaithersburg and Bethesda, is at the core of the Interstate 270 Technology Corridor which is home to various software and biotechnology companies as well as a several federal government establishments.
The town/city also has a several upscale county-wide shopping centers and is one of the primary retail hubs in Montgomery County.
The Rockville Town Center in January 2006 Situated in the Piedmont region and crossed by three creeks (Rock Creek, Cabin John Creek, and Watts Branch), Rockville provided an excellent refuge for semi-nomadic Native Americans as early as 8000 BC.
The indigenous populace carved a path on the high ground, known as Sinequa Trail, which is now downtown Rockville.
The locale of the road, near the present Rockville Pike, was strategically positioned on higher ground making it dry year-round.:6 9 The first territory patents in the Rockville region were obtained by Arthur Nelson between 1717 and 1735.
Within three decades, the first permanent buildings in what would turn into the center of Rockville were established on this land.
Still a part of Prince George's County at this time, the expansion of Daniel Dulaney's Frederick Town prompted the separation of the portion of the county, including Rockville, into Frederick County in 1748.
The Beall-Dawson House, on West Montgomery Avenue near Rockville Town Center in January 2005.
Being a small, unincorporated town, early Rockville was known by a range of names, including Owen's Ordinary, Hungerford's Tavern, and Daley's Tavern.
Owen's Ordinary was a small rest stop on Rock Creek Main Road (later the Rockville Pike), which stretched from George Town to Frederick Town, and was then one of the biggest thoroughfares in the colony of Maryland.
It was originally placed there in 1803 when Rockville's streets were laid out.
On September 6, 1776, the Maryland Constitutional Convention agreed to a proposal introduced by Thomas Sprigg Wootton wherein Frederick County, the biggest and most crowded county in Maryland, would be divided into three lesser units.
The southern portion of the county, of which Rockville was a part, was titled Montgomery County.
The most crowded and prosperous urban center in this new county was George Town, but its locale at the far southern edge rendered it worthless as a seat of small-town government.
Rockville, a small, but centrally positioned and well-traveled town, was chosen as the seat of the county's government.
At the time, Rockville did not have a name; it was generally called Hungerford's Tavern, after the well-known tavern in it. After being titled the county seat, the village was referred to by all as Montgomery Court House. The tavern served as the county courthouse, and it held its first such proceedings on May 20, 1777. Rockville came to greater eminence when Montgomery county was created and later when George Town was ceded to the federal government to problematic the District of Columbia. It was first considered to officially name the town Wattsville, after the close-by Watts Branch, but the stream was later considered too small to give its name to the town. On July 16, 1803, when the region was officially entered into the county territory records with the name "Rockville," derived from Rock Creek. Nevertheless, the name Montgomery Court House continued to appear on maps and other documents through the 1820s.
By petition of Rockville's people, the Maryland General Assembly incorporated the village on March 10, 1860.
Stuart and an army of 8,000 Confederate cavalrymen marched through and occupied Rockville on June 28, 1863, while on their way to Gettysburg and stayed at the Prettyman home.
The Rockville Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in January 2006.
In 1873, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad arrived, making Rockville easily accessible from Washington, D.C.
(See Metropolitan Branch.) In July 1891, the Tennallytown and Rockville Railway inaugurated Rockville's first street car service connecting to the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway end at Western Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue.
Downtown Rockville in 2009 The newly opened barns provided service from Georgetown to Rockville, connecting Rockville to Washington, D.C.
The Blue Ridge Transportation Company provided bus service for Rockville and Montgomery County from 1924 through 1955.
After 1955, Rockville would not see a concerted accomplishment to precarious a enhance transit infrastructure until the 1970s, when the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) began work to extend the Washington Metro into Rockville and extended Metrobus service into Montgomery County.
The Rockville station of Washington Metro began service on July 25, 1984, and the Twinbrook station began service on December 15, 1984.
MARC, Maryland's Rail Commuter service, serves Rockville with its Brunswick line.
From Rockville MARC provides service to Union Station in Washington D.C.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service from Rockville to Chicago and Washington D.C.
The mid-20th century saw substantial expansion in Rockville, especially with the annexation of the Twinbrook subdivision in 1949, which added hundreds of new homes and thousands of new inhabitants to the city.
During the Cold War, it was considered safer to remain in Rockville than to evacuate amid a hypothetical nuclear attack on Washington, D.C.
From the 1960s, Rockville's town center, formerly one of the area's commercial centers, suffered from a reconstructionof decline.
Rockville soon became the first town/city in Maryland to enter into a government funded urban renewal program.
Included in the plan was the unsuccessful Rockville Mall, which floundered to attract either primary retailers or customers and was completed in 1994, various government buildings such as the new Montgomery County Judicial Center, and a reorganization of the road plan near the Courthouse.
Although accomplishments to restore the town center continue, the majority of the city's economic activeness has since relocated along Rockville Pike (MD Route 355/Wisconsin Avenue).
In 2004, Rockville Mayor Larry Giammo announced plans to renovate the Rockville Town Square, including building new stores and housing and relocating the city's library.
In the past year, the new Rockville Town Center has been transformed and includes a number of boutique-like stores, restaurants, condominiums and apartements, as well as stages, fountains and the Rockville Library. The command posts of the U.S.
The Music Center at Strathmore, an arts and theater center, opened in February 2005 in the latter of these two areas and is presently the second home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the Fitzgerald Theatre in Rockville Civic Center Park has provided diverse entertainment since 1960.
Mary's Catholic Church in Rockville, Maryland where his father, Edward, and a number of Key family members had been buried. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Rockville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Rockville is in hardiness zone 7a, meaning that the average annual minimum winter temperature is 0 to 5 F ( 18 to 15 C). The average first frost occurs on October 21, and the average final frost occurs on April 16. Enumeration Bureau, Rockville is home to one of the biggest Chinese communities in Maryland According to the U.S.
Enumeration conducted in 2000, 14.5% of North Potomac's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Chinese ancestry, making North Potomac the region with the highest percentage of Chinese lineage in any place besides California and Hawaii. According to the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) enrollment demographic statistics, the two high schools in Montgomery County with the highest reported Asian lineage are Thomas S.
Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, with a 32.1% Asian populace and catering to the communities in North Potomac, Rockville, and Potomac, and Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland, with a 23.0% Asian population. Although North Potomac and Potomac have the highest concentration of Asian populace in Maryland, the areas are largely residentiary and consist of suburban subdivisions.
Thus, the more commercially favorable Rockville has turn into the center for Chinese/Taiwanese businesses since it is the governmental center of county of Montgomery County and has large economic activeness along Rockville Pike/Wisconsin Avenue (MD Route 355) in addition to having its own middle class and upscale residentiary areas.
Rockville is widely considered to be a "Little Taipei" due to the area's high concentration of Taiwanese immigrants. Although it is considered a satellite of the Washington, D.C., Chinatown, Phuong Ly wrote in the Washington Post that the Montgomery County Chinatown is the "real Chinatown". According to the article, Rockville's Chinatown spans along Rockville Pike from Halpine Road to East Jefferson Street, along E Jefferson Street and then along North Washington Street.
Close to 30,000 citizens of Chinese descent live in Montgomery County, most of whom were drawn to the "good schools" and is home to at least three Chinese newspapers. Cynthia Hacinli states that "fans of authentic Chinese food" come here freshwater the downtown Chinatown on H Street. According to another article, the biggest concentrations of Chinese in the Washington, DC, region are in Montgomery County, Maryland, at around 3%, while concentrations in Fairfax and Arlington counties in Virginia are around 2 to 3%, which dwarfs that of Washington's Chinatown at around 3%. As the shift continues, the part that the urban Chinatown once played is now replaced by the "satellites" in the suburbs.
The Chinese New Year parade is held in the Rockville Town Square. Rockville is also the center of the Washington, D.C., urbane area's Jewish population, including a several Jewish churchs, kosher restaurants, and the biggest of the Washington area's three Jewish improve centers, part of a complex which includes a Jewish nursing home, day school, theater, and educational facility.
There are also high percentages of Jewish populace in the encircling areas of North Potomac and Potomac, which are largely residentiary and not as commercially suitable as Rockville.
Rockville also became home to a Jewish populace who fled Iran amid the Islamic Revolution in 1979, closing their cultural and theological Persian Mizrahi traditions. Adventist Health - Care, the American Kidney Fund, Choice Hotels, Emergent Bio - Solutions, Human Genome Sciences, Westat, United States Pharmacopeia (USP), Bethesda Softworks and Goodwill Industries are headquartered in Rockville.
9 City of Rockville 537 The Rockville City Hall in May 2010.
The current mayor of Rockville is Bridget Donnell Newton.
Rockville's mayors include: Mayors of Rockville Rockville has a four-member City Council, whose members, along with the mayor, serve as the governing body of the city.
The town/city is served by the Rockville City Police Department and is aided by the Montgomery County Police Department as directed by authority. Rockville is served by Montgomery County Public Schools.
Public high schools in Rockville include Thomas S.
Wootton High School, Richard Montgomery High School, and Rockville High School.
Berman Hebrew Academy and the Montrose Christian School, among other private schools, are positioned in Rockville.
Institutions of college studies in Rockville include Montgomery College (Rockville Campus), The University of Maryland University College (main ground is in Adelphi, Maryland), The Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus (main ground is in Baltimore, Maryland), and the Universities at Shady Grove, a collaboration of nine Maryland enhance degree-granting establishments, all have Rockville addresses, but are outside the town/city limits.
The Red Line of the Washington Metro rail fitness serves the Rockville station and the Twinbrook station.
The Rockville station is positioned at Hungerford Drive near Park Road.
The Twinbrook station is positioned near Rockville Pike and Halpine Road with entrances on Chapman Avenue.
At the same locale as the Rockville Metro station is Rockville Station on the Brunswick Line of the MARC commuter rail system, which runs to and from Washington, DC.
Public transit joins Rockville directly to the county-wide transit core at BWI Airport, and to downtown Baltimore via the Maryland Transit Administration ICC Bus and the Baltimore Light Rail.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides intercity train service to Rockville.
Amtrak Train 29, the westbound Capitol Limited, is scheduled to depart Rockville daily with service to Pittsburgh and overnight service to Chicago.
Amtrak Train 30, the eastbound Capitol Limited, is scheduled to depart Rockville at 12:30pm on its return to Washington Union Station.
Rockville has one sister city: Rockville City Code: General Ordinances of the City.
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