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Chevy Chase School and Junior College When it opened in 1903, it was called Chevy Chase College and Seminary -- a senior high school that also offered two years of post-high school courses for girls and young women. Located on Connecticut Avenue, in what today is a conference center for the 4-H Foundation, it was often called a “finishing school” in its early years. But by the time of its closure in 1950, it was a fully-accredited junior college.
Chevy Chase Lake Amusement Park Chevy Chase Lake, the trolley park at the end of the Connecticut Avenue streetcar line, operated from 1894 until the mid-1930s. In our forthcoming online exhibit, learn about all the amusements: band concerts, jazz orchestras, dancing the "turkey trot" and other new steps, bowling, boating, merry-go-round and pony rides, and more during the summer months.
“The Marine Band came out every evening… They played in a large shell that was glittering with electric lights and which was a sounding board for the music …. You could hear the music way north, up almost to Kensington.” Edith Claude Jarvis.
 The Placenames of Chevy Chase, Maryland is now available for purchase! CCHS' new, richly illustrated book is as much about the personalities who inhabited the early streetcar suburb as about how its shaded streets got their names. The Placenames of Chevy Chase: An Anecdotal Stroll Through the Centuries and Neighborhoods of Chevy Chase draws from CCHS' collection of vintage photographs, maps and oral histories to present Chevy Chase, MD as a microcosm of 20th-century America – beginning as a rural retreat from crowded Washington, DC in the late 1800s, and, with the push north after two World Wars, becoming a late-20th-century inner suburb. To order, please send check made payable to the Chevy Chase Historical Society, P.O. Box 15145, Chevy Chase, MD 20825. Member price per book including tax is $16. Non-member price per book is $20, including tax. If you buy both the DVD and book, the Non-member price is $30 and the Member price is $20.
Visit the CCHS Archive and Research Center!We are located on the lower level of the Chevy Chase Library, at 8005 Connecticut Avenue, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Drop in without an appointment on Tuesdays, between 10:00am and 2:00pm. Or make an appointment for another time by telephone or email: 301-656-6141 or
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