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===Three roads=== Wheaton developed from Leesborough (named in 1826), a small business district that grew near the junction of three major roads. The first of these is [[Maryland Route 97|Brookeville Pike]] (also known as the Washington-Brookeville Pike and later as the Union Turnpike, now Georgia Avenue) a north/south toll thoroughfare running from [[Washington, D.C.]], to [[Brookeville, Maryland|Brookeville]] and eventually to [[Baltimore]]. The second road, [[Maryland Route 586|Veirs Mill Road]] (named after a grist and sawmill built on [[Rock Creek (Potomac River)|Rock Creek]] by Samuel Clark Veirs in 1838<ref name="veirs mill">{{cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=78|title=Veirs Mill Historical Marker}}</ref>), was one portion of a much longer thoroughfare running west to [[Rockville, Maryland]], and thence towards the [[Potomac River]] and subsequently to [[Virginia]] via ferry crossings. This was also known as the "City Road" in Rockville, and around the time of the Civil War it was known also as the "New Cut Road."<ref name="Civil War Defenses of Washington Chapter VII">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/civilwar/hrs1-7.htm|title=Civil War Defenses of Washington Chapter VII}}</ref><ref name="The History Of Montgomery County, Maryland, From Its Earliest Settlement In 1650 to 1879 (Boyd, T. H. S.)">The History Of Montgomery County, Maryland, From Its Earliest Settlement In 1650 to 1879 (Boyd, T. H. S.)</ref> The last of these roads was known as [[Maryland Route 193|Old Bladensburg Road]] (now University Boulevard) which, as it does in present day, connected [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.|Georgetown]], [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Chevy Chase, Maryland|Chevy Chase]], [[Kensington, Maryland|Kensington]], Wheaton, [[Silver Spring, Maryland|Silver Spring]], and [[Bladensburg, Maryland|Bladensburg]].<ref name="MC history">{{cite web|url=http://www.wheatonmd.org/_files/docs/wheatonhistoryfinal.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/http://www.wheatonmd.org/_files/docs/wheatonhistoryfinal.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-10 |url-status=live|title=A History of Wheaton (Discover Wheaton), Montgomery County Government}}</ref>
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