A history of Chevy Chase,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Chevy Chase from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In the 1880s, Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada and his partners began acquiring farmland in unincorporated areas of Maryland and just inside the District of Columbia, for the purpose of developing a residential streetcar suburb for Washington, D.C., during the expansion of the Washington streetcars system. Newlands and his partners founded The Chevy Chase Land Company in 1890, and its holdings of more than 1,700 acres (6.9 km2) eventually extended along the present-day Connecticut Avenue from Florida Avenue north to Jones Bridge Road.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Chevy Chase’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old view1893 Rock Creek Railway northern …, 1893: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Chevy Chase
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Chevy Chase, decade by decade
1990s
1 historic place in Chevy Chase
1 place in Chevy Chase is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 1893 Rock Creek Railway northern terminus and car barn (1893) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.