(Realtor.com) GERMANTOWN, MD At Patch, we comb through hundreds of listings across Maryland. You name it, we ve (probably) seen it.
But then we saw a home that stopped us in our tracks. A home steeped in history that really was in a league of its own.
Enter: 17200 Riffle Ford Rd. in Germantown.
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The Victorian-style farmhouse, which sits on nearly seven acres of land, was built around 1872 by a prosperous farmer and merchant named John Hanson Gassaway. According to official government records, Gassaway was president of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society in the late 1870s and early 1880s, and operated a successful fertilizer and grain store in Germantown Station.