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To help familiarize you with this fine neighborhood, please read our brief history about Hillcrest Heights, MD.  It's interesting.

A Brief History of Hillcrest Heights, Maryland

A century and more ago, the Hillcrest Neighborhood's broad expanse was characterized by a number of farms and wooded areas, separated from the District of Columbia by the stream valley of Oxon Run. Road connections to the nation's capital were via an old path that still winds to the west and east of Branch Avenue but was known at that time as Naylor or Walker Road (the names of farm families along its route). A connecting road was St. Barnabas Road which trended southwestward to a church of that name and to Barnaby Mansion, a colonial estate located on Barnaby Run. In addition to its westward slope to Oxon Run, the neighborhood also had a downward inclination to the east, toward Henson Creek, and thus its interior sections are formed of hilly terrain along a ridge line marked by Silver Hill Road.

Very few nonagricultural activities were present in the neighborhood in the 1800's. They were limited to a few enterprises found at the nodal points of crossroads, primarily at the point where St. Barnabas Road branched to the southwest (now the site of the Marlow Heights Shopping Plaza and once known as Gordon's Corner).

The slow pace of change over the decades is indicated by the existence of only 50 to 60 homes in the entire neighborhood in the 1920's. These homes were located on farm parcels or along the main arteries of travel -- along Naylor Road, St. Barnabas Road, and Temple Road. The latter path trended southward from St. Barnabas Road and is now known as Temple Hills Road. Very few homes were located in the more western section of the neighborhood in proximity to Wheeler Road. Although little more than a rural unpaved lane, Wheeler Road also provided a route into the District of Columbia; it led to the settlements in that jurisdiction known as Congress Heights and Anacostia and connected with the Navy Yard Bridge crossing of the Anacostia River.

The neighborhood's common border with the nation's capital.

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