Eventually, in 1984, the firehouse on MacArthur was sold and the station was moved to its present location on River Road. Originally staffed wholly by volunteers, the department added some career firefighters in 1959. For many years the hall above the fire trucks was the scene of community meetings and social events, and the sound of the siren, summoning volunteers to the station to respond to an alarm, was a familiar part of Cabin John life. In 1930 Charles Benson led the community in establishing its own fire department, with the firehouse on MacArthur Boulevard built entirely by the volunteer labor of Cabin John residents. The 1920’s and 1930’s also saw many other community endeavors-the Cabin John Home Demonstration Club, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and, most visibly, the Cabin John Volunteer Fire Department. Although many of the new owners built houses for summer occupancy only, the town’s year-round population grew steadily and a sense of community began to appear.Ī significant event was the founding, in 1919, of the Cabin John Park Citizens Association which immediately began to work for improved amenities for the community-better mail delivery, better street lighting, better telephone service.
Tomlinson, bought up a large tract of land in Cabin John, divided it into residential lots, and began a vigorous sales campaign of what it called Cabin John Park. In 1912 the American Land Company, represented by J.S. (For a pictorial history of Cabin John, check out Richard Cook’s Website on the History of Glen Echo and Cabin John. Land ownership remained concentrated, however, and at the end of the century, three families owned virtually all the property in today’s Cabin John. In the 19th century, the building of the C & O Canal in the 1820’s and 1830’s brought settlers to the Cabin John area, and the population further increased with the construction of the Washington Aqueduct in the 1850’s and 1860’s. During the 18th century, farming predominated, particularly of tobacco. Several of these grants embraced what is now Cabin John. Later the Piscataways, and still later, the Senecas occupied the land.īy the middle of the 17th century, Maryland was becoming a settled colony, and Lord Baltimore, proprietor of the colony, was making land grants along the Potomac River. When the first European explorers appeared in the early 17th century, the native Americans living in the area were the Susquehannahs. Based on the book Cabin John: Legends and Life of an Uncommon Place by Judith Welles The Early YearsĪs a recognized place, Cabin John emerged only in the 19th century but of course there were inhabitants long before then.
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