How 18 Neighborhoods In and Around Bethesda Got Their Names

The history behind names of local communities past and present

By Bill Offutt

October 13, 2015 1:59 p.m.

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Pooks Hill

Pooks Hill was named by Business Week publisher Merle Thorpe in 1927 and is a reference to Rudyard Kipling’s story, Puck of Pook’s Hill. Thorpe’s grand home of the same name was in the news around 1940, when Crown Princess Martha of Norway bought and enlarged the place. It is the site of the county’s first high-rise apartment building.

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