Editing Cabin John, Maryland (section)

==History==
Early land records in 1715 cite Captain John's Run, now called [[Cabin John Creek]]. The [[toponym]] "Cabin John" is thought to be a corruption of the name "Captain John", but the origin of the name remains unresolved.

Cabin John is the location of the [[Union Arch Bridge]], built between 1857 and 1864 over Cabin John Creek; at the time of its completion, the bridge was the longest single-span masonry arch in the world and remains the longest in the United States.<ref name="JWelles">{{cite book |last=Welles |first=Judith |title=Cabin John: Legends and Life of an Uncommon Place |year=2008 |publisher=Cabin John Citizens Association |location=Cabin John, Maryland |isbn=978-0-615-21117-6}}</ref> The Cabin John Bridge Hotel was built in 1870 adjacent to the west end of the Union Arch Bridge, overlooking the Potomac. Originally a refreshment stand and boarding house for bridge workers, it grew into "a sumptuous establishment frequented by the most powerful politicians and important social figures of Washington, D.C." In its heydays of the 1890s to early 1900s, "the hotel was so lavish and became so important a destination for Washingtonians that ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported about it regularly." The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1931.<ref name="JWelles"/>

The neighborhood was connected by [[Washington Railway and Electric Company|streetcar]] to [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]] from 1897 to the 1930s and to [[Bethesda, Maryland]], from about 1900. Streetcar service ended c. 1960.<ref>{{cite report |title=Palisades Trolley Trail; Historic Resource Report; Appendix 4 |section=History of the Washington & Great Falls Electric Railway |url=https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/page_content/attachments/Appendix4_HistoricResourcesReport_FINAL_Reduced.pdf |date=December 2019 |publisher=District of Columbia Department of Transportation |location=Washington, D.C. |archive-date=2021-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715020305/https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/page_content/attachments/Appendix4_HistoricResourcesReport_FINAL_Reduced.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|12}}

Bordering Cabin John to the west is [[Carderock, Maryland|Carderock]], where in 1936–1939 the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] built the [[David Taylor Model Basin]], one of the largest test facilities for ship design in the world. The test basin facility was originally planned for Cabin John, but instead the original {{convert|19.27|acre|ha|2|adj=on}} site, bought from Mary Ellen Bobinger, widow of the owner of the Cabin John Hotel, was used to build housing for workmen. "The Navy had 125 homes constructed… 100 for white workers and 25 for black." The homes were in two small neighborhoods, Cabin John Gardens, off [[MacArthur Boulevard (Washington, D.C.)|MacArthur Boulevard]], and Carver Road, off Seven Locks Road. The Cabin John Gardens homes were constructed on the site of the former hotel and sold by the government to employees, with the land itself held as a cooperative—the only single-family development of its kind in the county. Carver Road homes were located about 1/3 of a mile to the northwest and originally rented out for $28 a month. "Of the families who moved there, many are still there, as adult children and grandchildren stayed on."<ref name="JWelles"/>

Before the passage of the [[Fair Housing Act of 1968]], racial covenants were used to exclude African Americans and other people of color. For example, a 1924 deed for a property owned by the American Land Company, Inc., of J. S. Tomlinson said, "That no part of said property shall be sold leased, rented or deed to any person or persons of the negro race or other persons of color."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mcplanning.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0d26456118d34a14b2d27aec8d6f2b1a |title=Cabin John Park, Section 2 |publisher=[[Montgomery Planning]] |accessdate=2024-06-12}}</ref>