Editing Brookeville, Maryland (section)

===20th century===
In 1910, the Salem United Methodist Church was built to replace a church that had been destroyed by fire, and the church cemetery has been there since the mid-19th century.<ref name="richman">{{cite news |title=Brookeville: Where time stands still |author=Richman, Michael |date=August 27, 1996 |newspaper=The Washington Times}}</ref> By 1900, the mills and shops had shut down, and Brookeville remained a residential town.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mdihp.net/ |title=Brookeville Historic District |publisher=Maryland Historic Trust |work=National Register of Historic Places Inventory |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160522120306/http://mdihp.net/ |archive-date=May 22, 2016}}</ref> In 1915, the Bentley family sold the Madison House to Roger Brooke, a leader of the Quaker community. The house later changed hands, owned for some time by Elisha Hall, a principal at the Brookeville Academy, banker Remus Riggs, and Gene Archer, an [[NBC]] television personality.<ref name="richman"/>

The automobile gave people more mobility and changed the market, with the nearby town of [[Olney, Maryland|Olney]] taking prominence over Brookeville.<ref name="walking"/> Since the 1950s, Olney has rapidly developed, putting pressure on Brookeville. The [[Brookeville Historic District]] was placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1979.<ref name="national-registry">{{cite web |url=http://mht.maryland.gov/nr/ |title=National Register Listings in Maryland |publisher=Maryland Historical Trust |access-date=July 12, 2006}}</ref> Brookeville's historic designation has helped it retain historic character.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.gazette.net/stories/030806/olnenew200730_31940.shtml |title=One man's fight to preserve the past |date=March 8, 2006 |publisher=The Gazette |author=Hogan, Terri |access-date=December 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521200303/http://www.gazette.net/stories/030806/olnenew200730_31940.shtml |archive-date=May 21, 2008 }}</ref>