tenallytown

Updated: May 1, 2025

There is the road that leads west or northwest from Georgetown, the Tenallytown road, the very sight of which, on a sharp, lustrous winter Sunday, makes the feet tingle. Where it cuts through a hill or high knoll, it is so red it fairly glows in the sunlight. I'll warrant you will kindle, and your own color will mount, if you resign yourself to it.

John Burroughs - Winter Sunshine

"The men who had rolled into those cosy bunks with the declared intention of 'sleeping a week steady, were on their cursing way through Tenallytown again in twenty-four hours, marching with accelerated pace toward Frederick to overtake the brigade of the red cross, to which they had so lately bidden an everlasting adieu. Oh, bitter cup!"

Dudley Landon Vaill - The County Regiment: A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer: Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer: Infantry, in the Civil War

For that portion of the county of Washington which lies west of Rock Creek, at Conrad's Tavern, in Tenallytown. Judges: Joshua Peirce, Charles R. Belt, and William D.C. Murdock. For that portion of said county which lies between Rock Creek and the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, at Seventh street tollgate. Judges: Thomas Blagden, Dr. Henry Haw, and Abner Shoemaker.

- A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents : Volume 5, part 4: James Buchanan