Bethesda | Maryland Neighborhoods

Longtime Bethesda, Maryland residents Steve Roberts, Carol Carrier, and Gene and Rachel Easton detail the history of their community. For decades, Bethesda was a rural area known as Darcy's Store. During World War II, a small research farm on the outskirts of town evolved into the National Institutes of Health, which attracted a highly educated workforce, development, and an enormous infusion of wealth. Today, one of the last vestiges of the community's agricultural past is the Montgomery Farm Women's Cooperative Market. Established in 1932 to provide farm women the opportunity to sell what they grew and handcrafted on their farms, to market still provides fresh produce and baked goods to customers on Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Bethesda.
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The Market literally kept families going during the Depression. They always had food, grew and canned. But no money,
Social Security was not until late 1935.
My daughter's great greats weren’t there, they had their own veg stand on then-Brookville Pike since 1918. They sold chickens to Woodrow Wilson, that was his favorite place to motor, he loved long drives. Brookville was one lane then.
Women’s Farm Cooperative was like a mirage in the desert thirty years of high rises later…what am I seeing?
If Forest Glen Seminary School for Girls can be saved, Women’s Farm Cooperative can.
After languishing for decades, it was the phoenix mentioned here, it was sold and restored.
It was so utterly impossible and out of reach….I determined it was a coalition of heavenly sisters who came together to get it done.
Nice to see this….share it with Share arrow above. Anyone who has ever lived or worked in the area will get a kick.

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I heard about Bethesda because ProShares has an office there.

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