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In 1888, real estate developer Edward Graves hired Newby & Howell, engineers and surveyors of Washington, D.C., to survey his 393 acres, then known as the Graves Sub-Division, for a new suburban residential development called Charlton Heights before its incorporation as the Town of Berwyn Heights in 1896. Fifty-foot-wide streets were laid out much as they remain today in Berwyn Heights. Newby & Howell's plat identified streets named for notable people of the time, including associates of Graves, James Waugh, and other developers of Charlton Heights. Ruatan Street was originally called Keleher Avenue after Timothy D. Keleher, a U.S. Army paymaster who, with Waugh, served as a trustee for the Charlton Heights Investment and Building Association, incorporated in 1890.
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