In 1899, Gaithersburg was selected as one of six global locations for the construction of an International Latitude Observatory as part of a project to measure the Earth's wobble on its polar axis.

The Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory is ( as of 2007 ) the only National Historic Landmark in the City of Gaithersburg.

The Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory, in Gaithersburg, Maryland is one of the system of six International Latitude Observatories and ( as of 2007 ) the only National Historic Landmark in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

On the grounds of the Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory stands a plaque that reads:

However, nothing now remains of this addition to the Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory.

* 1989 Drawings of the Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory at the Library of Congress

* Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory, Montgomery County, including photo in 1991, at Maryland Historical Trust

* Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory: N 39: 08: 12. 51 W 77: 11: 55. 85

* National Park Service-The history of the Gaithersburg Observatory in Maryland, and the overall project.

Gaithersburg was incorporated in 1878.

Gaithersburg was settled in 1765 as a small agricultural settlement known as Log Town near the present day Summitee Hall on Ralph Crabb's 1725 land grant " Deer Park ", gaining the name Gaithersburg a few years later.

However, when the railroad was built through town the new station was called Gaithersburg, an officially recognized name for the community for the first time.

Rapid growth occurred shortly thereafter, and on April 5, 1878 the town was officially incorporated as the City of Gaithersburg.

On July 16, 2010, Gaithersburg was hit by a 3. 6 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest to occur in Maryland.

North Potomac was created in 1988 from the peripheral fringes of Gaithersburg, Potomac, and Rockville, and lies parallel to the Potomac River.

In the early 1870s, shortly after the B & O Railroad ’ s Metropolitan Branch ( now the MARC Brunswick Line )) was extended from Washington DC to Gaithersburg, Maryland, a group of Methodists purchased land nearby as a site for a camp meeting.

In November 2010, Rothman's longtime Chief of Staff, Robert Decheine, was arrested in Gaithersburg, Maryland on charges of soliciting sex from someone who had allegedly identified " herself " to him over the Internet as a 15-year-old girl, but who in reality was a law enforcement agent in a sting operation organized by federal and local authorities.

Daly grew up in Bowie, Maryland and Gaithersburg, Maryland ; his father was a federal employee and consultant, and his mother an accountant.

This hilltop in Gaithersburg was chosen together with sites in California, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union.

The Gaithersburg observatory was established as part of the International Polar Motion Service in 1899.

The Gaithersburg observatory was built by Edwin Smith, chief of the Instrument Division of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, who had conducted similar measurements as a volunteer in 1891-92 from his home in Rockville, Maryland.

The wall was moved from its original location in Washington, D. C. to Gaithersburg, Maryland in May 1977.

In 1975, the the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board ( TPB ) of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments endorsed a request from the State Highway Administration " for federal support of a $ 1. 1 million planning and engineering study of the first 8-mile segment of the road " ( then called the Outer Beltway ), which was to " run from the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near Beltsville westward to a point near Interstate Rte 70S at Gaithersburg.

Located in the city of Gaithersburg, Maryland in the United States, Kentlands was one of the first attempts to develop a community using Traditional Neighborhood Design planning techniques ( also known as neo-traditional new town planning ) that are now generally referred to under the rubric of the New Urbanism.

That portion was annexed into the city of Gaithersburg and was sold in 1988 to the town creator, Joe Alfandre.

The first full-scale new urbanist new development in Colorado, it was developed starting in the mid 1990s by Kiki Wallace and designed by the firm of Duany Plater Zyberk & Company, who also designed the new urbanist communities of Seaside, Florida and Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Matt was raised in the suburbs of Gaithersburg, MD and Germantown, MD north of Washington, D. C. During high school he met Tommy Sickles through mutual friends.

During the last 20 years ( 1990 – 2010 ), it has become one of the most economically and ethnically diverse areas in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the state of Maryland, with people from all walks of life calling Gaithersburg home.

Nando's has eight restaurants in the US: Two in Washington, DC at 7th street and 18th street ; Maryland has five in Annapolis, Silver Spring, Bethesda, Gaithersburg and National Harbor ; Virginia has one in Arlington.

As one leaves Gaithersburg to the north, the building numbers change back to the county's Capitol-based system.

Lakeforest Mall is an enclosed shopping center that is located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, one of the northern suburbs of Washington, D. C. in Montgomery County, Maryland.

However, as the population of the Washington, D. C. metropolitan area mushroomed after World War II, and especially after the construction of the Washington Beltway and the D. C. Metro lured affluent government employees and other professionals into the suburbs, the population of Gaithersburg swelled and the influence of the original settlers has waned.

Gaithersburg boomed during the late 19th century and churches, schools, a mill, grain elevators, stores, and hotels were built.

Gaithersburg is divided into east and west sections, separated by Interstate 270.

In 1873 the B & O Railroad constructed a station at Gaithersburg, designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin as part of his well-known series of Victorian stations in Maryland.

Off-campus sites include the Business Training Center in Gaithersburg and Westfield South in Wheaton, which are operated by the college's Workforce Development and Continuing Education division.

** First United States Government workshop on quantum computing is organized by NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in autumn.

Image: Widows Walk Gaithersburg. jpg | alt = The roof of a house with a widow's walk on top, consisting of a small room surrounded by railing | A widow's walk in Gaithersburg, MD.

* Ahlerich: The Making of a Dressage World Champion ( translation of Ahlerich by Courtney Searls-Ridge ) Gaithersburg, MD: Half Halt Press 1986

As the population grew, with homes spreading throughout the area, Gaithersburg began taking on a suburban and semi-urban feel, leaving its farming roots behind.

The Wikipedia page on Pronunciation of English th lists " Gaithersburg " among the many words and proper names of English origin in which non-initial TH is soft, as in " bathe " and " whether.

Interstate 370 ( abbreviated I-370 ) is a Interstate Highway spur route off I-270 in Gaithersburg, Maryland to the western end of toll road MD 200 ( Intercounty Connector ) at an interchange that provides access to the park and ride lot at the Shady Grove station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro.

The Paffenbarger Research Center ( PRC ), located on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, an agency of the American Dental Association Foundation ( ADAF ) and a Department of the Division of Science.

Knight died on 22 May 2012, at his home in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

He then held the morning-show slot on WMET-AM 1160 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, until November 2, 2007.

Kiran grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland and attended Montgomery Blair High School ( Silver Spring, Maryland ) where she served in student government, danced on the pom squad, and competed on the swim team.

The church currently meets on Muncaster Mill Road in Gaithersburg.