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Chestnut/Meem Historic District

Gaithersburg, Maryland
· Designated November 17, 1997
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Martha Meem's 200 acres, part of the 1793 Zoar Land Grant, was further subdivided as Meem's subdivision in 1896. The district preserves late 19th- and 20th-century structures, along with the Metropolitan Branch of the B&O Railroad, which drove town development after 1873.
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