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Clean Drinking Manor: the First Chevy Chase Estate
Saturday, March 24, 2007
2:00 PM

The kick-off Chevy Chase History-Go-Round event.

"Brookville Road, before Connecticut Avenue, (was) the main thoroughfare...(for) George Washington when he went to Philadelphia....It went right past Clean Drinking Manor, where he frequently stopped."

From Edith Claude Jarvis: Oral History, 1987

Did George Washington really stop here? Learn the answer as Steve Dryden, an authority on the history of Clean Drinking Manor, leads an early spring stroll to see the location of the 18th century Manorhouse, which no longer stands, and the famed Clean Drinking spring. Clean Drinking Manor was built in the 1750's on a patent of 1400 acres given in 1699 to Major WilliamDent. It was one of the original land grants that formed the foundation of today's Chevy Chase.

Steve Dryden, a resident of Bethesda, is the former media director of the Audubon Naturalist Society at Woodend and currently is a writer and consultant on environmental and historic preservation issues.In May 2006, he wrote about Clean Drinking Manor in the Montgomery County Historical Society'squarterly publication, The Montgomery Story. Informal refreshments and a photographic exhibit of Clean Drinking Manor will follow the walk at anearby home. There is no fee for the program, but reservations are required.