What’s in a name: Is Rockville’s Agnew Drive named after Spiro?
. But he cannot say for whom itMontgomery History
. At that time, Spiro Agnew had yet to enter public life. The Baltimore restaurateur’s son was working at an insurance agency during the day and going to law school at night, a schedule that would be interrupted by Army service in World War II.Agnew Drive was — and is — part of a subdivision called Rockcrest that is nestled in the wedge between Veirs Mill Road and Rockville Pike.
Street names do not burble up out of the ground like oil or reveal themselves like petroglyphs when the ground above is scraped away. They are bestowed by humans. The streets of Rockcrest memorialize some of those humans. Hedlund said she suspected Rockcrest’s streets would have been named after the developer’s family members or friends, “typical of real estate speculators of the time.
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