Sherwood Forest, Montgomery County, Maryland

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Sherwood Forest is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. [1] It is roughly bounded by Randolph Road, Sherwood Forest Drive, Notley Road, the Intercounty Connector, and Northwest Branch Park. [2]

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Montgomery County, Maryland County in Maryland

Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland, located adjacent to Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 971,777, increasing by 9.0% to an estimated 1,058,810 in 2017. The county seat and largest municipality is Rockville, although the census-designated place of Germantown is the most populous place. Montgomery County is included in the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn forms part of the Baltimore–Washington Combined Statistical Area. Most of the county's residents live in unincorporated locales, of which the most built up are Silver Spring and Bethesda, although the incorporated cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg are also large population centers, as are many smaller but significant places.

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History

The land was originally a 311.75-acre (126 ha) tract of land called Two Farms. [3] Later called Westover, Evan Thomas inherited the land from his father, Samuel Thomas, in 1783. [3] Evan Thomas leased the land to Thomas Brown for 72 pounds per year. [3] A house was built on the land in 1810, which still stands today across from Robin Hood Swim Club. [4] The house was built with one-foot-thick brick walls with ox blood-based mortar. [4] It has remnants of slave quarters and an icehouse, [4] Occupants drank water from a spring that was located where the Robin Hood Swim Club's pool is now. [4] The water was filtered through a sand-filled channel called a race, pumped to the house with a hydraulic ram, and stored in a 40-foot-tall wood tower. [4]

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Evan Thomas sold the land to William Culver in 1816. [3] Brothers John and Romulus Culver inherited the property when their father died in 1824. [3] Then living in Kentucky, John Culver had no interest in the land and sold his portion of the land to Francis Valdenar in 1824; Romulus Culver later sold his portion to Valdenar in 1833. [3]

Valdenar was a farmer and a Commissioner of Montgomery County. [3] When Montgomery County and Prince George's County disputed their border, Valdenar helped define the boundary separating the two counties. [3]

Valdenar mortgaged the property in 1870. [3] When Valdenar could not meet the mortgage payments, the property was sold at a public auction to Henry and Mary Bradley in 1876, and they gave it to their son William Bradley later that year. [3]

A successful farmer, William Bradley built an elaborate Queen Anne-style addition to the house. [3] William Bradley died in 1897, and John Bliler bought the property from Bradley's widow Mary Bradley by way of a mortgage in 1926. [3] Bliler defaulted on the mortgage, and Mary Bradley bought back the property at a public auction in 1929. [3]

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Mary Bradley sold the property to a developer in 1950, but she inserted a clause in the deed stating that she could continue to live in the house for free for the rest of her life. [3] The deed also stated that she had the right to chop firewood on the land and she could walk her dogs on the land whenever she liked. [3] Further, the deed stated that if the developer were to sell the portion of the land surrounding the house, she would receive half the proceeds of the sale. [3]

The house has been listed on the Montgomery County Master Plan for Historic Preservation. [4]

Sherwood Forest was developed by Kahn Construction Corporation. [5] Homes were originally intended to be built in 1959, [5] but homes were delayed until a water and sewage system was built in 1961. [6] Homes were originally priced between $28,000 and $45,000 each. [7] Better Homes and Gardens named one of the model homes a 1959 House of Ideas. [8] Kahn intended the homes to be of better quality than typical homes, in order to provide long-term savings on maintenance costs to homeowners. [9]

Amenities

Robin Hood Swim Club is located in Sherwood Forest. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sherwood Forest, Montgomery County, Maryland
  2. ↑ "Sherwood Forest". The Washington Post. March 12, 2011. p. E10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Leavitt, Donald M. "Westover". Maryland Historical Sites Inventory. Maryland Historical Trust. July 1979.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Siegal, Ann Cameron. "Neighborhood Offers An Everyday Respite". The Washington Post. July 3, 1999. p. G1.
  5. 1 2 "The State of Real Estate". The Washington Post. August 22, 1959. p. C4.
  6. ↑ "Kahn to Build at Sherwood Forest". The Washington Post. March 11, 1961. p. B10.
  7. ↑ "Map, Directions to Home of '59". The Washington Post. September 12, 1959. p. B2.
  8. ↑ "Ideas Galore at Sherwood Forest". The Washington Post. September 12, 1959. p. D16.
  9. ↑ "Quality Plea Sounded by Area Builder". The Washington Post. April 22, 1961. p. C15.
  10. ↑ Kelly, John. "When a Maryland pool was damaged, neighbors dived right in to getting it fixed". The Washington Post. August 13, 2014.

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