Town of Brentwood

Mount Rainier is a city of 8,000 people in Prince George's County. A large area of Mount Rainier is considered a historic district by the National Register of Historic Places.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Riversdale and Fort Lincoln.

Riversdale

Museum

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Riversdale, is a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 and 1807. Also known as Baltimore House, Calvert Mansion or Riversdale Mansion, it is located at 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale Park, Maryland, and is open to the public as a museum.

Fort Lincoln

Park

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Fort Lincoln was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, DC built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army.

Mount Rainier Historic District

Historic site

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The Mount Rainier Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland, which began as a streetcar suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C. The district was built on a gently rolling rural landscape from about 1900 to 1940.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hyattsville and Mount Rainier.