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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted[/quote]

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly.  I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it?  That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it.  FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.[/quote]

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The [b]black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.[/b] [/quote]

[b]Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village?[/b] I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.[/quote]

DP, but you asked.  Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

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I'll post what I posted a minute before, because you haven't answered what I asked. I know what you've posted. THIS IS WHAT I'M interested in:
I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, [b]before Newlands hit the scene.[/b] I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc. [/quote]

Immediate PP here.  This seems to be an instance of moving the goal posts.  Why are you specifically asking for evidence of Chevy Chase black residents before Newlands?  This was not in your original request.  What would evidence of black families before Newlands prove or disprove?

Any anyway, if you read the first link, you'd see that the black family featured, the Harris family, first settled around Broad Branch Rd. around 1850.  They lived there for the next 80 years until the National Capital Park and Planning Commission acquired the land, and they were forced to leave under threat of eminent domain.[/quote]

Sorry, but the moving of the goal posts was by the folks who responded to my query with other information. Someone said that Chevy Chase MD, aka the subject of this thread in the Real Estate forum (location, location, location!) was built upon, a place where "black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history." That clearly points to a pre-Newlands black community in Chevy Chase, MD. It might have been inadvertent, but it is absolutely implied there. I asked for further info because I hadn't seen it before and I'm interested in black history in MoCo, particularly in currently monied areas. Given the dearth of information about blacks in Ch Ch, I wouldn't rule out a whitewashing of the historical record.

It does occur to me that the historical black community near Westbard, descendants of those who worked the Loughboro farm in Bethesda, likely had ties to what is now Kenwood and Somerset, both of them in 20815., though those aren't generally treated as what makes Ch Ch 'special'.[/quote]

Best I can tell by a quick search on the internet it was all farmland before development.  [url]http://www.chevychasehistory.org/chevychase/about-chevy-chase-0[/url]

And this LoC map from 1865 shows perhaps a half-dozen framers or tradespeople living in that area [url]https://www.loc.gov/item/2002620533/[/url].  So not so much a well populated area of any sort of people.  Much less minority owned and then taken over by others as is being implied.  [/quote]

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