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As a suburb of the nation's capital in the late 1800s, Rockville was proclaimed a "peerless" place to live; its subsequent transformation into a city all its own is equally remarkable.
Starting out as a tiny colonial crossroads village, it gained stature as the county seat and evolved into a town.Construction of a train line to Washington spurred suburbanizationeven resort hotels. Then the automobile and postWorld War II boom rapidly turned it into a full-fledged city, with much of its ide...