Editing Forest Glen, Maryland (section)

==History==
Forest Glen was once part of a [[land grant]] made in 1680 to one of [[Archbishop]] [[John Carroll (bishop)|John Carroll]]'s ancestors.<ref name= guide>Maryland Writer's Project, Works Project Administration. ''Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State''. Oxford University Press. August 1940. p. 513.</ref>

[[Daniel Carroll]], one of the [[Founding Fathers of the United States]], lived in Forest Glen.<ref name= guide/> Carroll's body was buried in [[St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Silver Spring, Maryland)|St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church]] Cemetery in Forest Glen.<ref name= guide/> The church building was originally built as a wood-framed structure in 1774.<ref name= guide/> It was replaced by a brick structure in 1894.<ref name= guide/>

Racial covenants were used in the Woodside Knolls neighborhood of Forest Glen to exclude Black and Jewish residents. A 1939 covenant from Woodside Knolls states: "No part of the land above described shall ever be used or occupied by or sold demised, transferred unto, or in trust for, leased, or rented, or given to negroes, or any person or persons of negro blood extraction, or to any person of the Semitic race, blood or origin, which racial description shall be deemed to include Jews and Hebrews, except that this paragraph shall not be held to exclude partial occupancy of the premises by domestic servants of said races."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mcplanning.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0d26456118d34a14b2d27aec8d6f2b1a |title=Woodside Knolls |publisher=[[Montgomery Planning]] |accessdate=2024-06-08}}</ref>

The Forest Estates neighborhood of Forest Glen was developed in the 1940s by Jewish real estate developers. The area was formerly rural. Forest Estates was desirable to white Jewish homeowners moving to the suburbs from the city, because some white Christian neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. used antisemitic and racist covenants in real estate to exclude Jews, as well as African-Americans and other people of color. Antisemitic covenants were not used in Forest Estates, however, some Jewish developers used anti-Black covenants to exclude African-Americans. In 1945, Forest Glen Homes purchased land formerly owned by the Getty family, who had farmed the land since 1883. The houses in Forest Estates began construction in 1947. The Forest Glen Homes real estate company included Leo Minskoff, Sadie Milestone, Philip Milestone, and several others. Other builders in Forest Glen included the Russian immigrant Nathan Brisker and the Italian immigrant Anthony Campitelli.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://capitaljewishmuseum.org/my-mezuzah/ |title=My Mezuzah |publisher=[[Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum]] |accessdate=2022-05-03}}</ref>

[[Forest Glen station]] was originally planned to be built above-ground, which would have required the demolition of about fifteen homes.<ref name="approves">{{Cite news |title=County Approves Forest Glen Stop |date=January 14, 1976 |work=The Washington Post |page=B2 }}</ref> After community opposition to the above-ground station, Montgomery County approved a modified plan for an underground station.<ref name="approves" /> The community also opposed the originally planned location for the station, on the east side of Georgia Avenue between Sherwood Road and Tilton Drive.<ref name=hearings>Eisen, Jack (April 14, 1975). "Public Hearings Set On Metro Stop Shift In Montgomery County". ''The Washington Post''. p. C3.</ref> The station opened on September 22, 1990.<ref name="climb">Fehr, Stephen C. (September 16, 1990). "Wheaton, Forest Glen To Climb Aboard Metro: New Stations to Extend Red Line 3.2 Miles". ''The Washington Post''. p. D1.</ref><ref name="adds">Fehr, Stephen C. (September 23, 1990). "Metro Adds 2 Stations To System: Wheaton, Forest Glen Open for Thousands". ''The Washington Post''. p. D4.</ref> Forest Glen station is {{convert|160|feet}} below ground, the deepest train station in the [[Washington Metro|Metrorail system]].<ref name="climb"/>

Forest Glen has been the subject of redevelopment for many years. In 2017, Montgomery County Park and Planning Commission began the consolidated Forest Glen/Montgomery Hills sector plan review.<ref>[http://montgomeryplanning.org/planning/communities/area-1/forest-glen-montgomery-hills-sector-plan/ Forest Glen/Montgomery Hills sector plan]</ref>

In 2018, [[WMATA]] announced that it would do a feasibility study on the redevelopment of the {{convert|8|acre|sqm|adj=on}} parking lot of Forest Glen station.