Glenmont

The village of Glenmont (sometimes spelled Glenmount) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contained a few houses and small farms lining the Washington-Brookville Turnpike, as Georgia Avenue was then called. The area had a post office since at least 1900. Glenmont's first school opened in 1926. Located on present-day Georgia Avenue, the school served students from Glenmont, Aspen Hill, Layhill, and Wheaton. The area remained largely undeveloped until after World War II, when suburbanization began with the construction of subdivisions in Glenmont. Commercial and residential development began transforming the rural area known as Glenmont in 1949 with two major developments, Glenmont Village, and Glenmont Forest. In 1947 the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission built the 189-foot (58-m) tall Glenmont Water Tower, which is a multi‐columned elevated water tank with a 500,000-gallon (1,900,000-L) capacity. Glenmont is served by WMATA and is the last station on the Red Line. 39.061801-77.0535781 Glenmont Metro station is along Georgia Ave, in the middle on the town. The major streets running through Glenmont are Georgia Avenue, Randolph Road, Layhill Road. The area where they converge is the center of Glenmont. Metrobus and Ride-on-Bus operate service around Glenmont and to other areas of Montgomery County. Glenmont does not have any hotels. Silver Spring is just south on Georgia Ave and the Metrorail Red Line, and has plenty of nice hotels....