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Accokeek History

 

Captain John Smith was the first European to see the Accokeek area when he sailed up the Potomac River. Father Andrew White, an English Jesuit missionary, later visited the Indian village and chief in nearby Piscataway, MD. English farmers and planters settled the area in the late 17th century, and Christ Episcopal Church was established in 1723. Marshall Hall was an outstanding colonial home southwest of Accokeek, in the river bottomlands near Bryans Road, Maryland.

Henry and Alice Ferguson settled in Accokeek when they purchased "Hard Bargain Farm" overlooking the Potomac River in 1922, as a vacation retreat. Henry Ferguson (1882–1966), an Ivy League-educated man (Harvard and Yale), worked for the Geological Survey starting in 1911. Alice Leczinska Lowe Ferguson (1880–1951), wife of Henry Gardiner Ferguson, trained as a painter at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C, and had interests in archeology as well. Supposing it to be the site of the Moyaone (or Moyoane) Indian Village in Accokeek visited by Captain John Smith, during his early explorations of North America,in the 1930s Alice Ferguson initiated archeological excavations, and wrote papers on the Piscataway Indians. A recent source states that while the site is probably not the one described by Captain John Smith, it is nonetheless still important. In 1966, the Accokeek Creek Site was made a National Historic Landmark.

After World War II, Maryland Route 210, a new 2-lane highway to Washington, D.C. opened rural Accokeek to settlement by commuters, attracting a limited number of settlers, especially U.S. Naval scientists and other intellectuals who built contemporary-style homes in an ecologically protected restricted area of west Accokeek called the "Moyaone Reserve" which retains a rural scenic character still to this day. Some of these homes were designed individually by architect Charles Wagner, an early Moyaone resident whose family are still active in the community.

Not until about 1990 did large-scale housing developments come closer to Accokeek than Fort Washington, Maryland. That was shortly followed by a supermarket, public library, and improved bus transit. Plans to build a Wal-Mart were defeated by local activists.

The Federally-run National Colonial Farm, and the adjacent but separate Hard Bargain (Ferguson Foundation) Farm, are educational facilities enjoyed by families and school groups throughout the year, and offer numerous living-history festivals, a fishing pier, avant-garde theater play performances, a colorful Oktoberfest, and environmental education through overnight camps.

In the 1990s, Maryland Route 228 was linked with Route 210, offering Accokeek residents faster access to shopping in the fast-growing city of Waldorf. The intersection of Route 210 and Route 228, is one of only a handful of continuous flow intersections in the United States.

Italian arms company Beretta opened a factory in Accokeek in the 1970s. It won a federal contract to produce pistols for the military in 1985.