Bethesda

Bethesda is an unincorporated, census-unique vicinity in southern Bernard Law Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located simply northwest of the U.S. Capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its call from a nearby church, the Bethesda Meeting House, which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda. In Aramaic, beth ḥesda way "House of Mercy" and in Hebrew, beit ḥesed manner "House of Kindness". The National Institutes of Health essential campus and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center are in Bethesda, as are some of company and authorities headquarters.

Bethesda is situated along a chief thoroughfare that changed into originally the path of an historic Native American trail. Henry Fleet, an English fur trader, become the primary European to journey to the area, which he reached via crusing up the Potomac River. After staying for several years with the Piscataway tribe variously as a guest or prisoner he lower back to England, said potential riches in fur and gold, and received funding for another North American expedition.