Lawn Care Services in Gaithersburg, MD

Gaithersburg resides in Montgomery County in Maryland. It is the fourth largest incorporated city in Maryland, with a population of just shy of sixty thousand. Because of its population, it is the fourth largest incorporated city in the state, following Baltimore, Frederick, and Rockville. It lies just northwest of Washington D.C. and is registered as the primary city in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Statistical Area. It has been a registered and incorporated city in Maryland since 1968, an incorporated town since 1878.

The city is divided into two sections, marked by Interstate 270. The eastern section of the city is older, and contains the original buildings in the early nineteenth century before its huge population growth. There are many landmarks and buildings that go back as far as the 1850s. The historic district is also part of the business district, called “Olde Towne”. This is the same side that includes Lakeforest Mall, City Hall, and Montgomery County Fairgrounds.

The west side of Gaithersburg contain sectors of community that were developed with “smart growth” techniques, also called New Urbanism. The Kentlands community, the Lakelands community, and the Washingtonian Center are also located on the westside of town. Gaithersburg is also home to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 

The town’s history goes back as far as 1765, when it was just a small agricultural settlement known as Log Town. It was centered around Summit Hall on Ralph Crabb’s Deer Park. Henry Brooke purchased some land north of this and built his home with the name Montpelier. In the 1850s the Forest Oak Post Office was given its name due to the large tree in the center of town. It was established in a general store called Gaither’s in 1851. When the railroads finally made their way into Maryland, the engineers and rail workers noted the area as Gaithersburg, and the name stuck.

Churches, schools, mills in the Victorian style soon boomed in the late nineteenth century, and soon even more growth occurred. By the time of April 5th in 1878, the town was officially recognized as Gaithersburg and was incorporated. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, Gaithersburg was selected to be one of six global locations for the construction of an observatory, the International Latitude Observatory to measure earth’s axis wobble. Thus, the Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory is listed as the only National Historic Landmark in the city. There are only five others, located in Japan, Italy, Russia, and the United States that are still used for research. Up until the late seventies, Gaithersburg was mainly agricultural, with small businesses cropping up. But when major developing began, the town exploded and became the bustling suburb it is today.

Source: Wikipedia