Text Box: AROUND TOWN Text Box: WASHINGTON GROVE SIMILAR TO GLEN ECHO Starting as a Methodist summer tent colony in the 1870s, the Town of Washington Grove has the same small lots as Glen Echo, which was also developed with lots meant for tents or small cottages. It also has a mélange of bungalows, cottages, Cape Cods and Colonials, some of them only a few feet apart, according to a May 13 article in The Washington Post.. Located north of Shady Grove Rd., and east of Rt. 355, the town has 225 homes, compared to Glen Echo’s 100 or so. It has a volunteer mayor, full-time maintenance man and town clerk, and a part-time treasurer. Volunteers also participate in zoning, recreation, and forestry committees. Meetings are held in a small, octagonal structure known as McCathran Hall. Like Glen Echo until the 60s, Washington Grove does not have home mail delivery. Residents go to the town post office, which is next to a hair salon, consignment shop, catering business and insurance office. Roads are only 16 feet wide and the speed limit is 15 miles per hour. With homes so close together and roadways so narrow, parking is an issue and residents often cannot park near their homes. Problems the town shares with Glen Echo are falling trees, deer (the town is surrounded by woodlands), and potential mansionization. Townspeople are “eclectic..a little nutty,” one resident said. Glen Echoans can draw their own conclusions as to whether that is another similarity. Text Box: EX-RESIDENTS DONATE VALUABLE ITEMS FOR ARCHIVES The town has just received a valuable document for the archives from Norman “Sonny” Ingram of Valrico, Fla. He sent a map of the Capital Transit Street Car and Bus Lines dated March 1, 1944. The map clearly shows trolley/streetcar line #20, which ran from Georgetown along the Potomac River to Glen Echo and the turn-around just before the one-lane Cabin John Bridge. Mr. Ingram’s family moved to 12 Wellesley Circle in 1934 and to 6102 Princeton Ave. in 1941. He left Glen Echo to join the Navy in the Korean War in 1950, but has never forgotten the town. He is a paid subscriber of The Echo…. A number of fascinating photos of the Glen Echo Fire Dept. and its Ladies Auxiliary in the mid-40s have been sent to the editor by Tammy Singleton, former resident of 29 Wellesley Circle, for use in the forthcoming history of Glen Echo as well as inclusion in the town archives. Other fascinating documents of the old fire department which she sent are copies of its monthly newsletter, “T.O. Report,” dating from the war years of 1941-45. Ms. Singleton has also sent many old photos of 29 Wellesley, as well as of members of the Shannon and Arnold families, to which she is related… Other donors of valuable photos for the town archives and the history book are Ross Houghton, of Ft. Myers, Fla., and his son, Larry. Ross, now 88 years old, is the son of Harry W. Houghton, mayor of Glen Echo from 1918-19 and 1919-20. The heirs of Harry Houghton gave Glen Echo its town park at Princeton and University Aves. Harry Houghton was the son of Arthur J. and Minnie Houghton, who owned 7300 University Ave. as early as 1900. The Houghton family moved from Glen Echo in 1928. More donors of items of Glen Echo history will be acknowledged next month.

 

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6005 Princeton Ave.                          Under contract