Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Colesville, MD

Colesville is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, and many of its residents consider it a neighborhood of Silver Spring.

The Colesville CDP had a population of 15,421 in the 2020 census, up from 14,647 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 4,947 households and 5,142 housing units in Colesville, with a median resident age of 46.1 years.

Colesville covers about 5.13 square miles and lies between two streams, the Northwest Branch and the Paint Branch of the Anacostia River.

The land that became Colesville traces to early colonial patents, including the 900-acre 'Easy Purchase' patented by Archibald Edmonston in 1714 and the 'Drumeldry' and 'Wolf's Den' tracts patented by the Beall family soon after.

Robert Lazenby became the area's first resident farmer in 1723, and in the 1790s Peter Kemp built a saw mill and grist mill on Paint Branch.

Today's Valley Mill Park preserves the 1879 mill built by Franklin Pilling on the Kemp mill site, which operated until about 1930.

The name Colesville was first recorded on January 25, 1806, spelled 'Coale's-Ville,' and 'Milimar,' built around 1790 at 410 Randolph Road, is the community's oldest standing house and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Former President Franklin Pierce bought a 600-acre farm in Colesville in 1855, and Joseph F. Burr's Valley View mansion, built on a roughly 1,000-acre holding assembled from 1869, was frequently visited by President Grover Cleveland.

The Smithville Colored School, founded in 1927, was one of 16 schools for African American children in Montgomery County built with assistance from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and it operated until 1952.