Editing Rockville, Maryland (section)

===19th century===
[[File:Rockville Cornerstone.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Stone marker on corner of Vinson Street and Maryland Avenue, placed there in 1803 when Rockville's streets were laid out. "BR" stands for "Beginning of Rockville".{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}]]
[[File:Rockville railroad station.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rockville Railroad Station]], built in 1873]]
[[File:Map of Rockville 1879.jpg|alt=Map of Rockville in 1879|thumb|right|Rockville in 1879<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ghostsofdc.org/2012/12/14/map-of-rockville-in-1879/|title=Map of Rockville in 1879|last=Tom|date=2012-12-14|website=Ghosts of DC|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-20|archive-date=February 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220124149/https://ghostsofdc.org/2012/12/14/map-of-rockville-in-1879/|url-status=live}}</ref>]]

A proposal to name the town Wattsville, after the nearby Watts Branch, failed because the stream was later considered too small to give its name to the town.<ref name= proctor1934/> On July 16, 1803, when the area was officially entered into the county land records with the name "Rockville", derived from Rock Creek.<ref name= proctor1934/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2764|title=Profile for Rockville Maryland, MD|publisher=ePodunk|access-date=August 25, 2012|archive-date=February 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210103517/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2764|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nevertheless, the name Montgomery Court House continued to appear on maps and other documents through the 1820s.

By petition of Rockville's citizens, the [[Maryland General Assembly]] incorporated the village on March 10, 1860. During the [[American Civil War]], General [[George B. McClellan]] stayed at the Beall Dawson house in 1862. In addition, General [[J.E.B. Stuart]] and an army of 8,000 [[Confederate Army|Confederate]] [[cavalry]]men marched through and occupied Rockville on June 28, 1863,<ref>{{cite news |title= Capture of a Wagon Train: One Hundred and Seventy-eight Wagons and Over One Thousand Mules Gobbled Up: The Rebels in Possession of Rockville |work= Washington Evening Star |date= June 29, 1863 |page= 2 |url= http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=N5BX5EGSMTQxNTQ3NjA2Mi45ODI3NTk6MToxNToxMzIuMTc0LjI1NC4xNDU&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=3&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=3&p_docnum=7&p_docref=v2:13D5DA85AE05A305@EANX-NB-13DA8597DF22CB70@2401686-13D88059A3034D78@1-13DB2BC76483AFD0@ |access-date= December 22, 2016 |archive-date= February 25, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240225042819/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/home/login?destination=infoweb.newsbank.com%3Fdb%3DEANX-NB%26wedirect%3Dtrue |url-status= live }}</ref> while on their way to [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]] and stayed at the Prettyman house. [[Jubal Anderson Early]] also crossed through Rockville on his way to and from his 1864 [[Battle of Fort Stevens|attack on Washington]].

In 1913, on the birthday of [[Jefferson Davis]], the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] erected a statue near the Rockville courthouse dedicated to Confederate soldiers from Montgomery County.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=106336 |title=The Confederate Monument, a War Memorial |website=The Historical Marker Database |access-date=August 18, 2017 |archive-date=August 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819062128/https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=106336 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Looking-Back-at-the-Creation-of-the-Countys-Confederate-Memorials/ |title=Looking Back at the Creation of the County's Confederate Memorials |author=Mark Walston |date=July 21, 2017 |work=Bethesda Beat |access-date=August 19, 2017 |archive-date=August 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819062311/http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Looking-Back-at-the-Creation-of-the-Countys-Confederate-Memorials/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The monument was removed in 2017 as part of a wave of [[removal of Confederate monuments and memorials|removals of Confederate monuments and memorials]] in response to the 2015 [[Charleston church shooting]]; its base now stands by [[White's Ferry]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/confederate-statue-moved-from-rockville-courthouse-over-the-weekend/2017/07/24/cc80fae4-70a1-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html |author=Bill Turque |date=July 24, 2017 |title=Confederate statue moved from Rockville courthouse over the weekend |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=August 19, 2017 |archive-date=August 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819064814/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/confederate-statue-moved-from-rockville-courthouse-over-the-weekend/2017/07/24/cc80fae4-70a1-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1873, the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] extended its [[Metropolitan Branch]] to Rockville, connecting the city by rail to [[Washington, D.C.]] 

In July 1891, the [[Tennallytown and Rockville Railway]] brought [[tram|trolley]] service to the city. The line connected to the [[Georgetown-to-Rockville streetcar service|Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway]] terminus at Western Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue, and thence to downtown Washington, D.C.