Seneca, Maryland

Seneca is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is located near the intersection of River Road and Seneca Creek, not far from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) and Potomac River. Its history goes back before the American Revolutionary War and it thrived when the canal was operating—having several warehouses, a mill, a store, a school, and a hotel. Fighting occurred in the area on more than one occasion during the American Civil War. The community declined as the C&O Canal declined.[1]

Seneca, Maryland
Unincorporated community
Seneca Schoolhouse Museum in Seneca, Montgomery County, Maryland
Seneca Seneca
Coordinates:
Country	United States
State	Maryland
County	Montgomery
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	20834

The Seneca Schoolhouse, a small one-room schoolhouse of red sandstone, was built in 1866 to educate the children of Seneca's farmers, C&O canal workers, and the stone cutters who worked at the Seneca Quarry. The schoolhouse has a Poolesville address. Operating as the Seneca Schoolhouse Museum, it provides tours to schoolchildren so that they can experience a typical school day as it would have been on March 13, 1880.[2][3]

Seneca was the location of the Mills Cross Array, an early radio telescope which, in 1955, made the first observations of radio waves from the planet Jupiter.

References

1. Muir, Dorthy; Kephart, Mary Ann; Kiplinger, Austin; (History Medley District, Inc.) (1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Seneca Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (Maryland Historical Trust). Retrieved 2020-08-18.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Sheir, Rebecca (2015-03-20). "Kids Live History At One-Room Seneca Schoolhouse In Maryland". WAMU 88.5. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
3. "Seneca Schoolhouse". Historic Medley District, Preserving the Historic Heritage of Western Montgomery County, Maryland. Retrieved 2015-10-12.