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Potomac, MD
Potomac sits along the Maryland side of the Potomac River in Montgomery County, and its development pattern has stayed oriented almost entirely around large residential lots and horse-country estates rather than the denser, more walkable downtown cores found in suburbs like Bethesda or Alexandria, giving it one of the more rural, low-density feels of any close-in DC suburb. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath, a National Historical Park running alongside the Potomac River, passes directly through the area, giving residents direct access to a car-free hiking and biking trail that runs all the way from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland — a genuinely long-distance recreational corridor few other DC-area suburbs can offer their residents on foot from home. Potomac Village, the area's modest commercial center, has stayed intentionally small-scale relative to the surrounding area's wealth, reflecting a broader community preference for preserving the area's rural, equestrian character over denser commercial development. Consistently ranked among the wealthiest zip codes in the entire Washington metro area, Potomac's combination of large-lot, horse-country living, direct access to the C&O Canal towpath, and deliberately limited commercial density has made it one of the more distinctively rural-feeling affluent suburbs anywhere near a major East Coast city.
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Chevy Chase, MD
Chevy Chase straddles the Maryland-DC line just north of the district, and it's widely cited by urban historians as one of the earliest deliberately planned streetcar suburbs in the country — developed beginning in the 1890s by Nevada senator and real estate developer Francis G. Newlands, who built the Chevy Chase streetcar line specifically to connect his new subdivision directly to downtown Washington. That late-19th-century planning legacy shows up today in the area's wide, tree-lined avenues and consistently high-quality architecture, much of it dating to the early 20th century and preserved through decades of active historic-district zoning across the several distinct municipalities that make up the broader Chevy Chase area. The Chevy Chase Club, a private country club founded in 1892 as part of Newlands's original development, remains an active and historically significant institution in the area, reflecting the neighborhood's origins as a deliberately upscale retreat for Washington's professional and political class from the very beginning of its development. Served by the Red Line at the Friendship Heights station along its southern edge, Chevy Chase's combination of foundational streetcar-suburb planning history, consistently preserved early-20th-century architecture, and its position straddling the DC-Maryland line has made it one of the oldest and most enduringly prestigious suburban communities in the entire Washington metropolitan area.
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