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Bethesda () is an unincorporated,
census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in southern
Montgomery County, Maryland Montgomery County is the most populous County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, the county's population was 1,062,061, increasing by 9.3% from 2010. The county seat is Rockville, Maryland ...
, United States. Located just northwest of
Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...
, it is a major business and government center of the Washington metropolitan region and a national center for medical research. According to the 2020 census, the community had a population of 68,056.


Etymology

It takes its name from a local church, the
Bethesda Meeting House The Bethesda Meeting House is a historic Presbyterian church complex in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, US. Its name became the namesake of the entire surrounding community in the 1870s. It sits on Maryland Route 355 (known as Rockvill ...
(1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from
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's
Pool of Bethesda The Pool of Bethesda is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, (John 5#Healing at Bethesda (5:2–15), John 5:2) in an account of healing the paralytic at Bethesda, Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in Je ...
.


History

Bethesda is located in the traditional territory of the indigenous Native
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and
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at the time of
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. Fur trader Henry Fleet became the first European to visit the area, reaching it by sailing up the
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. He stayed with the Piscataway tribe from 1623 to 1627, either as a guest or prisoner (historical accounts differ). Fleet eventually secured funding for another expedition to the region and was later granted proprietary rights to 2,000 acres of land in the nascent colony and became a member of Maryland's colonial legislature. Raids from the
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and
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resulted in the creation of the Maryland division of Rangers in 1694 to patrol the
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. Most settlers in colonial Maryland were tenant farmers who paid their rent in tobacco, and colonists continued to expand farther north in search of fertile land.
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(1645–1711) surveyed a area in 1694 which became the first land grant in Bethesda. Tobacco farming was the primary way of life in Bethesda throughout the 1700s. The city avoided seeing action during the Revolutionary War, although it became a supply region for the fledgling
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. The establishment of
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, in 1790 deprived Montgomery County of its economic center at Georgetown, although the event had little effect on the small farmers throughout Bethesda. Between 1805 and 1821, Bethesda became a rural way station after the development of the Washington and Rockville Turnpike, which carried tobacco and other products between Georgetown and Rockville, and north to
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. The Bethesda Meeting House, a Presbyterian church, was built in 1820. The church burned in 1849 and was rebuilt the same year about south, and its former location became the Cemetery of the Bethesda Meeting House. In 1852, the postmaster general established a post office in the area and appointed Rev. A. R. Smith its first postmaster. By 1862, a small settlement had grown around a store and tollhouse along the turnpike known as "Darcy's Store" for the store's owner, William E. Darcy. It consisted of a blacksmith shop, a church and school, and a few houses and stores. In 1871, postmaster Robert Franck renamed the settlement for the church. A streetcar line was established in 1890 and suburbanization increased in the early 1900s, and Bethesda grew in population. Communities near railroad lines had grown the fastest during the 19th century. In 1910, the
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completed its
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line from Silver Spring to Georgetown, including a storage yard there and multiple sidings serving industries in Bethesda. B&O successor
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ceased train service on the line in 1985, so the county transformed it into a trail in the rails-to-trails movement. The tracks were removed in 1994, and the first part of the trail was opened in 1998; it has become the most used rail-trail in the United States, averaging over one million users per year. Subdivisions began to appear on old farmland in the late 19th century, becoming the neighborhoods of Drummond, Woodmont, Edgemoor, and Battery Park. Farther north, several wealthy men made Rockville Pike famous for its mansions. These included
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("Cedarcroft", 1892), James Oyster ( "Strathmore", 1899),
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("Hamilton House", 1904; now the Stone Ridge School), Luke I. Wilson ("Tree Tops", 1926),
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("Wild Acres", 1928–29), and
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("Stone House", 1930). In 1930,
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's pioneering manor house "Winona" (1873) became the clubhouse of the Woodmont Country Club on land that is now part of the
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(NIH) campus. Merle Thorpe's mansion "Pook's Hill" (1927, razed 1948) became the home-in-exile of the
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during
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. Before the passage of the
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, restrictive covenants were used in Bethesda to exclude racial and ethnic minorities—primarily African-Americans, but also Asian-Americans and ethnic groups regarded as "Semitic", including Armenians, Jews, Iranians, Greeks, Turks, and Syrians. One 1938 restrictive covenant in the Bradley Woods subdivision of Bethesda said, "No part of the land hereby conveyed, shall ever be used, or occupied by or sold, demised, transferred, conveyed, unto, or in trust for, leased, or rented, or given to negroes, or any person or persons of negro blood or extraction or to any person of the Semitic Race, blood, or origin, which racial description shall be deemed to include Armenians, Jews, Hebrews, Persians, Syrians, Greeks and Turks, or to any person of the Mongolian Race, blood, or origin, which racial description shall be deemed to include Chinese, Japanese, and Mongolians, except that this paragraph shall not be held to exclude partial occupancy of the premises by domestic servants of the purchaser or purchasers." In practice, covenants excluding "Semitic races" were generally used to exclude Jews as Montgomery County did not have notable Armenian, Greek, Syrian, or Turkish populations at the time.
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and the subsequent expansion of government fed the rapid growth of Bethesda. Both the
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(1940–42) and the NIH complex (1948) were built just to the north of the developing downtown, and this drew government contractors, medical professionals, and other businesses to the area. Bethesda became the major urban core and employment center of southwestern Montgomery County. This recent vigorous growth followed the 1984 expansion of
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with a station in Bethesda. The Bethesda Metro Center was built over the Red Line metro rail, which opened up further commercial and residential development in the immediate vicinity. In the 2000s, the strict height limits on construction in the District of Columbia led to the development of mid-and high-rise office and residential towers around the Bethesda Metro station.


Geography

According to the
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, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and (0.38%) is water. The main commercial corridor that passes through Bethesda is
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(known as Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda and as Rockville Pike and Hungerford Drive in more northern communities), which, to the north, connects Bethesda with the communities of
North Bethesda North Bethesda is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just north-west of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. It had a population of 50,094 as of the 2020 census. Among its neighborhoods, the centra ...
and Rockville, ending, after several name changes, in
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. Toward the South, Rockville Pike becomes Wisconsin Avenue near the
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Campus and continues beyond Bethesda through
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,
Friendship Heights Friendship Heights is an urban commercial and residential neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland. Though its borders are not clearly defined, Friendship Heights consists roughly of the neighborhoods ...
and into
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, ending in Georgetown. The area commonly known as Downtown Bethesda is centered at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue, Old Georgetown Road and East-West Highway. This intersection is about two and one-half miles from Washington, D.C.'s western boundary, making Bethesda a close-in suburb of the nation's capital. Other focal points of downtown Bethesda include the Woodmont Triangle, bordered by Old Georgetown Road (Maryland Route 187), Woodmont and Rugby Avenues, and the Bethesda Row, centered at the intersection of Woodmont Avenue and Bethesda Avenue. Much of the dense construction in that area followed the opening of the
Bethesda station Bethesda station is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro system in Bethesda, Maryland. It is one of the busiest suburban Metro stations, serving on average 9,142 passengers each weekday in 2017. The Purple Line, a l ...
on the Red Line of the
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rapid transit system, also located at this intersection and the centerpiece of the Bethesda Metro Center development. The Medical Center Metro stop lies about 0.7 miles north of the Bethesda stop, Medical Center, which serves the NIH Campus, the
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC; formerly known as the National Naval Medical Center and colloquially referred to as Bethesda Naval Hospital, Walter Reed, or Navy Med) is a United States military medical center located in B ...
, and the
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.


Demographics


2000

As of the
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of 2000, there were 55,277 people, 23,659 households, and 14,455 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 24,368 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 85.86%
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, 2.67%
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or
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, 0.17% Native American, 7.92% Asian, 0.05%
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, 1.23% from other races, and 2.11% from two or more races. 5.43% of the population were
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or Latino of any race. There were 23,659 households, out of which 28.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.4% were
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living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.9% were non-families. 32.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30, and the average family size was 2.92. In the CDP, 21.8% of the population was under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 27.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.2% was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.0 males. Bethesda is a very wealthy and well-educated area. According to the 2000 census, Bethesda was the best-educated city in the United States of America, with a population of 50,000 or more. 79% of residents 25 or older have bachelor's degrees, and 49% have graduate or professional degrees. According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the CDP was $117,723, and the median income for a family was $168,385. Males had a median income of $84,797 versus $57,569 for females. The
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for the CDP was $58,479. About 1.7% of families and 3.3% of the population were below the
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, including 1.8% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over. Many commute to
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, for work. The average price of a four-bedroom, two-bath home in Bethesda in 2010 was $806,817 (which ranks it as the twentieth most expensive community in America). Bethesda is often associated with its neighboring communities, Potomac,
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, Great Falls,
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, and McLean, Virginia, for their similar demographics.


2020

The ethnic makeup in 2020 was 69.5% non-Hispanic white, 8.9% Hispanic or Latino, 4.9% black, 11.7% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, and 8.2% of two or more races. 24.4% of the population was foreign-born.


Landmarks

Important medical institutions located in Bethesda include the National Institutes of Health campus,
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, and the adjoining
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, as well as a number of other military medical and research institutions. Other federal institutions include the
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and the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division. The headquarters of defense conglomerate
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, managed health care company
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and hotel and resort chains
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and Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. are located in Bethesda. Software company
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was originally located in and named after Bethesda but moved to Rockville in 1990. The
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also had its headquarters in Bethesda before it moved to Silver Spring in 2004. On the professional services side, numerous banks (PNC, Capital One Bank) brokerage firms (MorganStanley, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Fidelity) and law firms (Ballard Spahr, JDKatz, Paley Rothman, Lerch Early & Brewer) maintain offices in Bethesda. Bethesda has two
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s: the Montgomery Farm Woman's Cooperative Market and the Bethesda Central Farmer's Market. In summer 2021,
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moved the broadcast facilities of its Washington-area television stations,
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and
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, to Bethesda. Bethesda is the home of
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, which is recognized as one of the world's most prestigious private country clubs. Congressional has hosted four major golf championships, including the 2011 U.S. Open, won by
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. The National, a golf tournament hosted by
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, was played at Congressional seven times between 2007 and 2016. Bethesda is also home of the exclusive Burning Tree Club, Bethesda Country Club, and the
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, a summer collegiate baseball team. A number of ambassador residences are in Bethesda, including those of
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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. Also located in downtown Bethesda is one of the ''
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'' monuments, erected by the National Old Trails Association with the
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; U.S. President
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presided over the dedication of the Bethesda monument, on April 19, 1929. Nearby is the Bethesda Post Office. Also starting in the heart of downtown Bethesda is the
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, which follows the old tracks of the
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from Georgetown in Washington, D.C., to Silver Spring. Walter Reed Medical Center and the Bethesda Theater are two important
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
architectural structures in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.


Bethesda Row

Federal Realty Investment Trust has developed much of the west side of downtown Bethesda into an area called Bethesda Row, incorporating principles of
new urbanism New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating Walkability, walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has ...
and a mixed-use district including residential apartments and condos (100,000 ft2), retail (300,000 ft2), dining, office space (100,000 ft2), hotels, entertainment, public art and fountains, forming the new core of revitalized downtown Bethesda. Retail stores include an
Apple Store The Apple Store is a chain of Retail, retail stores owned and operated by Apple Inc. The stores sell, service and repair various Apple products, including Macintosh, Mac desktop and MacBook laptop personal computers, iPhone smartphones, iPad ta ...
,
Anthropologie Anthropologie is an Economy of the United States, American retailer operating in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany and the UK that sells clothing, jewelry, home furniture, decorations, beauty products, and gifts. Anthropologie is part of Urban ...
, and Bethesda Bagels.


Media


Fox 5 DC

Local Fox affiliate Fox 5 DC,
WTTG WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the market's Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station WDCA (cha ...
, is located in Bethesda in the Wilson building at 7272 Wisconsin Avenue. The studio often films with a live shot facing north on Wisconsin Avenue capturing the skyline of downtown Bethesda.


Education

Bethesda is located in the Montgomery County Public School District. Public primary schools located in Bethesda include: * Ashburton Elementary School * Bannockburn Elementary School * Bethesda Elementary School * Bradley Hills Elementary School * Burning Tree Elementary School * Carderock Springs Elementary School * Seven Locks Elementary School * Westbrook Elementary School (The only building in Montgomery County MD built under the WPA) * Wood Acres Elementary School * Wyngate Elementary School Public middle schools located in Bethesda include: * North Bethesda Middle School * Thomas W. Pyle Middle School *
Westland Middle School Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is a State school, public school district that serves Montgomery County, Maryland. With 210 schools, it is the largest school district in the state of Maryland. For the 2022–23 school year, the district ...
Public high schools located in Bethesda include: *
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (B-CC) is a State school, public Secondary school, high school in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located at 4301 East-West Highway, in Bethesda, Maryland, Bethesda. Part of the Montgomery County Public Schools ...
* Walt Whitman High School *
Walter Johnson High School Walter Johnson High School (also known as Walter Johnson or WJ) is a Public school (government funded), public High school (North America), upper secondary school located in the census-designated place of North Bethesda, Maryland, North Bethesda, ...
Private schools located in Bethesda include: * Bethesda Community School * Feynman School *
Rochambeau French International School Rochambeau The French International School of Washington DC is a private French international school in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. It maintains its administrative headquarters and its secondary campus in Bethesda, and a j ...
– The secondary campus/administrative headquarters (Forest Road Campus) and the preschool campus (Bradley Campus) is in Bethesda. Circa 2022, the school plans to open a new preschool, and elementary campus in Bethesda. *
Georgetown Preparatory School Georgetown Preparatory School (also known as Georgetown Prep) is a Jesuit college-preparatory school in Rockville, Maryland for boys in ninth through twelfth grade. It has a 93-acre (380,000 square meters) campus. It is the only Jesuit boarding s ...
* The Harbor School * Holton-Arms * Landon * Little Flower School (K–8) * Mater Dei School * Norwood (in the Potomac CDP) * Oneness-Family School * Our Lady of Lourdes School * St. Andrew's Episcopal School (in the Potomac CDP) * St. Bartholomew (Blue Ribbon elementary school PK–8) * Saint Jane de Chantal Catholic School (preK–8) *
Sidwell Friends School Sidwell Friends School is a private, college preparatory, Quaker school located in Bethesda, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., offering pre-kindergarten through high school classes. Founded in 1883 by Thomas W. Sidwell, its motto is ' (), alludi ...
(Lower School) *
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school in Bethesda, Maryland. Founded in 1923, it is part of the Network of Sacred Heart schools for girls. The school is all-girls for grades 1-12 and has a ...
* Washington Episcopal School (N–8) * Washington Waldorf School * The Woods Academy Bethesda is home to a federally funded and operated health science university, the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is a health science university and professional school of the U.S. federal government. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroa ...
(USU). The primary mission of USU is to prepare graduates for service in the
Medical Corps A medical corps is generally a military branch or staff corps, officer corps responsible for medical care for serving military personnel. Such officers are typically military physicians. List of medical corps The following organizations are exam ...
of the
U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the primary land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United Stat ...
,
Navy A navy, naval force, military maritime fleet, war navy, or maritime force is the military branch, branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral z ...
, and
Air Force An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army aviati ...
, and the
Public Health Service The United States Public Health Service (USPHS or PHS) is a collection of agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services which manages public health, containing nine out of the department's twelve operating divisions. The Assistant Se ...
. The university consists of the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, a medical school, and the Graduate School of Nursing, a nursing school.
National Intelligence University The National Intelligence University (NIU) is a federally chartered research university in Bethesda, Maryland operated by and for the United States Intelligence Community (IC) as its staff college of higher learning in fields of study central t ...
is also in Bethesda. The Washington Japanese Language School, a supplementary weekend Japanese school, holds its classes at the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda.Home

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The WJLS maintains its school office in
North Bethesda North Bethesda is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just north-west of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. It had a population of 50,094 as of the 2020 census. Among its neighborhoods, the centra ...
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The institution, giving supplemental education to Japanese-speaking children in the
Washington, D.C., area The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the National Capital Region, Greater Washington, or locally as the DMV (short for Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area comprising Washing ...
, was founded in 1958,English
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making it the oldest Japanese government-sponsored supplementary school in the U.S. The Writer's Center in Bethesda publishes ''
Poet Lore ''Poet Lore'' is an English-language literary magazine based in Bethesda, Maryland. Established in 1889 by Charlotte Porter and Helen Archibald Clarke, two progressive young Shakespeare scholars who believed in the evolutionary nature of lite ...
'', the longest continuously running poetry journal in the United States.


Economy

Notable companies based in Bethesda include: *
AdvisorShares AdvisorShares Investments is a US-based investment management firm based in Bethesda, Maryland which offers actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) through the AdvisorShares Trust. AdvisorShares partners with third party financial advisers ...
*
AREVA Areva S.A. was a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power, active between 2001 and 2018. It was headquartered in Courbevoie, France. Before its 2016 corporate restructuring, Areva was majority-owned by the French state through t ...
(U.S. headquarters) *
ASCII Group The ASCII Group, Inc., is the oldest and largest group of independent information technology (IT) solution providers, systems integrators, managed service providers (MSP) and value added resellers (VAR). Founded in 1984, ASCII is the largest ...
*
Calvert Investments Calvert Research and Management, established in 1976, is an investment management company that is headquartered in Washington, DC, and led by John Streur, the firm's President and Chief Executive Officer. Calvert is one of the largest responsib ...
*
Cambridge Information Group Cambridge Information Group (CIG) is a privately held, family-owned global investment firm focusing on information services, education and technology. The company is led by CEO Andy Snyder. History CIG was founded in 1971 by Robert Snyder and a ...
*
Clark Construction Clark Construction, also referred to as Clark Construction Group, LLC, is a construction firm headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and founded in 1906. The company had 2018 annual revenue of more than $5 billion, and is one of the largest commercial ...
*
Coventry Health Care Coventry Health Care, Inc. was a health insurer in the United States. It had 3.7 million medical members, 1.5 million Medicare Part D members, and 900,000 Medicaid members. In May 2013, the company was acquired by Aetna for $5.7 billion. History ...
*
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the United States established to provide the means to cure cystic fibrosis (CF) and ensure that those living with CF live long and productive lives. The Foundation pro ...
*
Enviva Enviva Inc. is the world's largest producer of wood pellets used for energy production. The company has been the subject of controversy regarding its sustainability with an environmental group's analysis suggesting Enviva is responsible for 50 a ...
*
Fox Television Stations Fox Television Stations, LLC (stylized as FOX TV STATIONS; also known as FTS) is a group of television stations in the United States owned-and-operated by Fox Corporation. It owns LiveNOW from Fox, Fox Local, and Fox Soul. It also oversees ...
**
WTTG WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the market's Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station WDCA (cha ...
and
WDCA WDCA (channel 20), branded Fox 5 Plus, is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the local outlet for the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet WTTG (channel 5) ...
*
HMSHost HMSHost is an American highway and airport food-service company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Switzerland, Swiss company Dufry. , Steve Johnson is the CEO of HMSHost. History The company's origins are in the Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Co ...
*
Host Hotels & Resorts Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., based in Bethesda, Maryland, is an American real estate investment trust that invests in hotels. As of December 31, 2023, the company owned 77 upscale hotels containing approximately 42,000 rooms in the United States, ...
*
International Neuroethics Society The International Neuroethics Society (INS) is a professional organization that studies the social, legal, ethical, and policy implications of advances in neuroscience. Its mission is to encourage and inspire research and dialogue on the responsible ...
*
JBG Smith JBG SMITH Properties is a publicly traded real estate investment trust based in Bethesda, Maryland. As of December 31, 2024, the company owned 38 operating properties including 16 apartment complexes with 6,781 units, 20 commercial properties com ...
*
Lockheed Martin The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American Arms industry, defense and aerospace manufacturer with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta on March 15, 1995. It is headquartered in North ...
*
Marriott International Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging brands that include hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. Marriott International owns over 37 ho ...
*
NBC Sports Washington Monumental Sports Network, formerly NBC Sports Washington, is an American regional sports network owned by Ted Leonsis through Monumental Sports & Entertainment. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sport ...
*
ProShares ProShares is an issuer of exchange-traded funds, including inverse exchange-traded funds, and similar products. History ProFunds Group was founded in 1997 by former Rydex employees Louis Mayberg and Michael Sapir for $100,000. That year, it in ...
*
Ritz Carlton The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC is an American multinational corporation, multinational company that operates the Hotel#Luxury, luxury hotel chain known as The Ritz-Carlton. The company has 108 conference and resort hotels, luxury hotels an ...
* RLJ Companies *
United States Enrichment Corporation Centrus Energy Corp. (formerly USEC Inc.) is an American company that supplies nuclear fuel for use in nuclear power plants and works to develop and deploy centrifuge technology to produce enriched uranium for commercial and government uses, incl ...
* Youth For Understanding USA * Wellness Corporate Solutions


Management

Downtown Bethesda is managed by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, a non-profit organization established in 1994 by Montgomery County.


Transportation

Washington Metro The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ...
's Red Line services two primary locations in Bethesda: the downtown area at the
Bethesda station Bethesda station is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro system in Bethesda, Maryland. It is one of the busiest suburban Metro stations, serving on average 9,142 passengers each weekday in 2017. The Purple Line, a l ...
, and the area near the
National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Service ...
and the Walter Reed Medical Center at the Medical Center station. The
Maryland Transit Administration The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT). The MTA operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Washington ...
's Purple Line, a light rail line currently under construction, will provide a direct connection from Bethesda to Silver Spring, the
University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
, College Park, and New Carrollton. The Purple Line will allow riders from Bethesda to move between the
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,
Green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a com ...
, and Orange Line (Washington Metro), Orange lines of the Washington Metro transportation system, as well as to MARC Train, MARC and Amtrak trains, without needing to ride into central
Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...
Local buses include: * WMATA's Metrobus *The Montgomery County Ride On (bus), Ride On bus system also has several routes through Bethesda.
Bethesda Circulator
a free loop bus that operates Monday-Saturday and covers most of downtown Bethesda. Long-distance buses include: * Fairfax Connector Route 798 provides service from Tysons, Virginia to downtown Bethesda. * Vamoose Bus and Tripper Bus, both of which provide service from downtown Bethesda to the proximity of Pennsylvania Station (New York City), Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. **Tripper Bus, a privately owned company, provides service from Bethesda 4681 Willow Ln, Bethesda, MD 20814 at the corner of Wisconsin Ave., opposite side of Panera Bread, the same side of Bethesda's Farm Women's Market to New York City between 8th and 9th Ave near Pennsylvania Station (New York City), Penn Station, in close to proximity to Port Authority Bus Terminal.


Notable people

* Jonathan Allen (journalist), Jonathan Allen, journalist * José Andrés, chef * Trace Armstrong, former NFL player * Red Auerbach, former NBA coach * Aran Bell, ballet dancer * Deane Beman, PGA Tour Commissioner and professional golfer * Ezra Taft Benson, the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture under Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Eisenhower * Wolf Blitzer, journalist * Mike Brey, basketball coach * James Brown (sportscaster), James Brown, sportscaster * Preston Burpo, soccer player * Patrick M. Byrne, Patrick Byrne, entrepreneur * Chuck Carey, soccer player * Andrea Carroll (soprano), Andrea Carroll, soprano * Michael Cerveris, actor * William Dean Christensen, serial killer known as “The American Jack the Ripper” * Connie Chung, television journalist * Colin Cloherty, NFL player * Steve Coll, journalist and author * Candy Crowley, journalist * E. J. Dionne, journalist, political commentator, and author * David Dobkin (director), David Dobkin, director, screenwriter, and producer * Michael Dunn (American football), Michael Dunn (born 1994), National Football League (NFL) offensive lineman * William Eacho, former U.S. ambassador to Austria * Gregg Easterbrook, sports columnist. * Thomas Francis Edwards, serial killer nicknamed The Bethesda Butcher * Jo Ann Emerson, former United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative, Missouri * Kenneth Feinberg, attorney * John Feinstein, author * Janet Foutty, businessperson, author, and public speaker * Thomas Frank, journalist and author * Neal Fredericks, cinematographer * Thomas Friedman, journalist and author * Merrick Garland, 86th United States Attorney General * Carol Guess, American poet and fiction writer * Howard Gutman, former U.S. ambassador to Belgium * Mark Halperin, journalist and author * Steve Handelsman, journalist * Laura Hillenbrand, author * Henry Hodges, actor, played Horace Robedaux in The Orphans' Home Cycle. * Antawn Jamison, basketball player * Walter Johnson, baseball player * Spike Jonze, director, producer, screenwriter, and actor * Larry Kaufman, chess Grandmaster * Brett Kavanaugh, United States Supreme Court Justice * Judith Kent, business executive and philanthropist * Julie Kent (dancer), Julie Kent, ballet dancer * Greg Koch, former NFL player * Ferenc Körmendi, Hungarian novelist and broadcaster * Judy Kuhn, actress * Tim Kurkjian, ESPN analyst * Katie Ledecky, Olympic champion swimmer * Nils Lofgren, musician * Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress * Allison Macfarlane, chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. * Justin Maxwell, MLB player * Matt McCoy (actor), Matt McCoy, actor * Alice McDermott, author * Sean Murray (actor), Sean Murray, actor * Alondra Nelson, sociologist and Dean of Social Science at Columbia University * Martin O'Malley, politician, former governor of Maryland, former Democratic presidential candidate * Maynard Olson, chemist and molecular biologist * Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Pahlavi dynasty, royalty, son of Iran's last monarch. * Nick Palatas, actor * Periphery (band), Periphery, progressive metal band * Maury Povich, television host * Mark Pryor, former U.S. Senator, Arkansas * Giuliana Rancic, celebrity news personality * Patricia Richardson, actress, ''Home Improvement (TV series), Home Improvement'' * James Risen, journalist * Alexandra Robbins, author * Cokie Roberts, journalist and author * Wayne Rooney, British soccer player * Richard Schiff, actor * Dan Shanoff, sports columnist * David Simon, author, journalist, and television producer * Gordon Smith (politician), Gordon Smith, former U.S. Senator, Oregon * Daniel Stern (actor), Daniel Stern, actor * John Sweeney (labor leader), John J. Sweeney, Former President of the AFL-CIO * Jacob Tamarkin, mathematician * George Spiro Thanos, martial artist champion * Jeff Tremaine, director, screenwriter, and producer * Christopher Weaver, software developer * Meredith Whitney (born 1969), businesswoman * Thomas Wieser, American-Austrian economist * Michael Wilbon, journalist, sportscaster * Gedion Zelalem, professional footballer (soccer)


See also

* Washington metropolitan area


References


External links


Greater Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce

Bethesda Urban Partnership
{{Authority control Bethesda, Maryland, Populated places established in 1820 1820 establishments in Maryland Census-designated places in Montgomery County, Maryland Census-designated places in Maryland Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area