1865

Enterprise Club (Junior Farmer's Club) founded; Ashton Methodist Episcopal Church organizes; new Brighton post office opens in Peirce store, Edward Peirce postmaster

1868

Savings Institution of Sandy Spring founded, embryo of today's Sandy Spring National Bank

1869

Brookeville Academy moves to enlarged Riggs home Bordley's Choice, known later as Marywood and today as Merrywood

1870

Home Interest Club founded; St. Luke's Church (Episcopal) established at Brighton; Sunshine acquires Unity Post Office, the first of several shifts between the villages

1873

Montgomery Farmers' Club founded; Joseph T. Moore establishes Olney Grange

1878

County's first telephone line connects the homes Sharon and Brooke Grove; Rockland Boarding School for Girls succeeds Stanmore school, until 1892

1883

Sherwood Friends School opens, becomes public school in 1906

1885

Ednor Post Office established, Dr. Francis Thomas postmaster

1888

Mt. Zion Methodist Church established