Bethesda History Articles and Videos
African Americans
The Forgotten African American Community of River Road by David Kathan, Amy Rispin and L. Paige Whitley (2017
Historic African River Road Connections Collection
Housing discrimination in Bethesda
River Road: A black community struggles to reclaim its history
River Road Bethesda: A Short History of Black and White, 1850 – 1963
Agriculture
Dairy farms (video)
Athletics
Big Train Baseball
Johnson, Walter
Johnson, Walter (video)
Special Olympics
Bethesda
Driving around Bethesda (video)
Buildings
Bethesda Meeting House and the Church that named Bethesda
Pooks Hill and Norway’s Crown Princess Martha
Stone House (Lawton Chiles International House)
Strathmore Mansion
Winona
Churches and religious groups
Bethesda Friends Meeting
Bethesda Presbyterian Church
Bethesda Presbyterian (video)
The Church that named Bethesda
Clubs
Bethesda Country Club
History of Montgomery County Country Clubs
Edgemoor Club
The Woman’s Club of Bethesda
Woodmont Country Club
Histories of Bethesda
Bethesda History by Mark Walston
Milestones in Bethesda History
What’s in a Name? Bethesda
Hospitals
Naval Hospital, Bethesda
Suburban Hospital
Housing
Garden apartments
Housing discrimination in Bethesda
Military
USO, Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda
Navy
Neighborhoods
Alta Vista Terrace
Battery Park
East Bethesda
Greenwich Forest (Maryland Historical Trust, 2009)
Greenwich Forest (Master Plan for Historic Preservation)
Huntington Terrace
Kenwood Park
Luxmanor
Neighborhood Names
Oakmont
NIH
National Institutes of Health (Montgomery County Historical Society)
A Short History of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institutes of Health Historical Images (NIH)
How NIH’s Main Campus Came to Be in Bethesda (NIH)
Parks
Bethesda Park (1891-1894)
People, Notorious
William Bradford Bishop
People, Prominent
Johnson, Walter
Johnson, Walter (video)
Offutt, Bill
Roberts, Cokie
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy
Tuckerman, Walter Rupert
Walter Rupert Tuckerman, Father of Bethesda by William Offutt
Washington Post Answer Man keeps up with the Tuckermans (2010)
Public services
Fire Department
Fire and Rescue (video)
Telephones
Schools
County schools (video)
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
BCC High School “important civic monument of pre-World War II”
Leland Junior High School
Little Flower School
Norwood School
Walter Johnson High School (video)
Stores and Restaurants
Farm Women’s Cooperative
Hot Shoppes
O’Donnell’s
Tastee Diner
Streets
Old Georgetown Road
Woodmont Avenue
Transportation
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Bethesda (1910-1985)
Beltway, Capital