Our History
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History c. 1903
Text
of promotional sales pamphlet for Drummond
circa 1903
Leave the dust
and discomfort of the city, the brick walls
and concrete pavements that draw heat through
the day and retain it through the night,
and secure a home in DRUMMOND,![[autumn in Drummond]](images/h2.jpg)
where the
air is pure and sweet and the nights cool
and restful.
DRUMMOND is in the rapidly improving northwest, on the Georgetown and Rockville electric line, a half-mile west of Chevy Chase Circle, and adjoining on the north, Somerset Heights. At an altitude of nearly 400 feet above Pennsylvania Avenue, the air is pure and healthful, absolutely free from malaria and typhoid, cool, refreshing, invigorating. No need of a trip to seashore or mountains; you’ll recuperate at home if you live in DRUMMOND.
Purchasers
in Drummond are assured for all time
of first-class surroundings and high-grade
improvements![[[architectural detail]](images/h3.jpg)
by
suitable restrictions imposed by deed.
Lots are 80 by 155 feet, insuring freedom
from crowding, with ample space for lawn
and decorative shrubbery.
DRUMMOND
offers you broad streets, paved with best
macadam, free from dust in summer and mud
in winter; wide granolithic sidewalks,![[architectural detail]](images/h1.jpg)
bordered
by double rows of maple shade trees, and
a wide grassy parking; electric lights;
perfect sewage, and a superb water system,
furnishing at moderate cost a bounteous
supply of absolutely pure artesian water,
always clear, sparkling, and healthful.
Electric cars convey you to office or business in thirty-five minutes for a single fare.
The prices of the lots in DRUMMOND are from eight to twelve cents per foot, far below prices in other subdivisions offering fewer advantages. Here are combined city comforts ad suburban healthfulness at country prices.
Each purchaser is given a certificate of title FREE.
The
Drummond Land Co.
Howard S. Gott, President
Tenleytown, D.C.”
Read more Drummond history in this Excerpt from A History and Collection of Documents for the Village of Drummond by David C. Berg