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Description

Mount Rainier began its history as an incorporated town in 1910 with the merging of several subdivisions that straddled Bunker Hill Road; a major route between the ports of Georgetown and Bladensburg. Before the Civil War; Thomas and Anna Clemson owned a 100-acre farm fronting that important road. Their family letters provide some of the earliest writings about the area. In 1891; Elizabeth and Estcourt Sawyer purchased the Clemson farm and named their subdivision Mount Rainier. In 1899; the real estate became especially attractive to commuters when the District of Columbia�s streetcar system was extended through the heart of the present-day city; the route; now known as Rhode Island Avenue; later became part of US Route 1.