Hyattstown Walking Trail
With an Optional Cycling Trip Through
Little Bennett Regional Park

adapted from
Hyattstown Walking Trail
Friends of Historic Hyattstown
© Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1976

A Short History of Hyattstown

Hyattstown, stretching along a single tree-shaded thorough fare, is a well-preserved example of the small roadside towns that sprang up along early highways built to link the westward-moving frontier to coastal ports. One of these arteries, opened about 1750 to connect tobacco port of Georgetown with Frederick and beyond, was known locally as the "Great Road." Once in part an old Indian trail; it has been widened and much improved over the years; now it is Maryland Route 355.

General Edward Braddock's troops road this path in April 1755 to Braddock's disastrous defeat and death by the French and Indians near present-day Pittsburgh. ... and more.

A Walk Around Hyattstown

Caution should be observed in walking through Hyattstown. Although a sidewalk now being planned will bring a measure of safety for the pedestrian, traffic on Route 355 is often heavy and hazardous. Children and pets need protection, and the town is not a good cycling area.

And more ...

1. Volunteer Fire Department and Site of Tabler's Tannery

2. Five Victorian Houses

3. Hyatt House Hotel

4. E.G. Gardner House

5. Methodist Episcopal Church, North

6. Methodist Episcopal Church, South

7. John Gardner House

8. Smith-Darby House

9. Brengle House

10. Davis House

11. Christian Church and Parsonage

12. Hyattstown School

13. Ziegler House

14. Tailor Shop

15. Dutrow Blacksmith's Shop

16. Hyattstown Mill and Miller's House

Bicycling Excursion Through Little Bennett Regional Park

Walk your bike cautiously up Rt. 355 to Hyattstown's northern edge. And More ....

A. Price's Distillery Buildings

B. Hyattstown Mill

Acknowledgements

Illustrations: Harry Jaecks
Layout: Thomas Riley
Cartography: Thomas Riley
Research: Friends of Historic Hyattstown, Inc.
Text: David Kiefer

This Sugarloaf Regional Trails project was sponsored by the Montgomery County Planning Board.

Printing was funded by the Montgomery County Board of Education, the Kiplinger foundation, the Montgomery County Department of Recreation, and the Montgomery County Planning Board.

Additional copies are available for $1 for the packet of six gudies from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Md. 20907. Single copies are 25 cents.

© Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1978

Other Publications and Documents

Time and Place Preserved (1988)
Hyattstown Walking Trail (1978)
Master Plan Testimonry (1982)
"Great Road" Theme Events (1977)
A Roadside Town Preserved (1986)
History of the Hyatt House (1988)
History of the Little Bennett Valley (198x)
Early History of Hyattstown School (1942)
History of Hyattstown (197x)
Sugarloaf Regional Trails Hamlet Project (1978)

Contact Friends of Historic Hyattstown at hyattstown@aol.com