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Lincoln Park was developed in the 1890s as a development for black residents.
By 1920, most Rockville homes had electricity and running water, but no telephone service.
Rockville built a modern system of water and sewer facilities to accommodate the rapid residential growth of the 1950s.
Lincoln Terrace, the first public housing project in Montgomery County, opened in 1959.
From 1950 to 1980, 16 new public schools and two new public libraries opened in Rockville.
In the early 1960s, Woodley Gardens became Rockville's first planned community with the developer using an innovative multi-use zoning technique. |