You will find Tenleytown at Washington, D.C. History and Life http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/ (great website!!!) While you are there please check out (click on) the DC timeline found in the red block on the left-hand side of the home page. I found it fascinating. click on DC Neighborhoods found in the red block on the left-hand side of the home page. http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/masternbh2.html There you will find Neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. (and respective Neighborhood Clusters) and if you click on it <http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/Neighbor2t.html> you can see Tenleytown is in cluster 11. If you then go back one click you can click on maps and then click on cluster 11 which will give you a visual idea of where Tenleytown is today. My understanding is Tenleytown was named for the Tenally Tavern, operated by the family Tenally (various spellings). I believe the tavern was there more then a hundred years before the circle. Wisconsin Avenue was the dirt toll road from Frederick to Georgetown. I believe the tavern was a favorite stopping place for refreshment. I am not certain if the coaches stopped there on a regular basis. If memory serves me the only other "roads" on old plat maps were Murdock Mill Road which was a big irregular loop from down west to Murdock's mill which was located near Delcarlia Blvd near the present Sibley Hospital up east to past the present Wisconsin Ave; Belt Road, Grant Road, Loughborough/Loughboro Road and the present River Road. All these roads are still around to a greater or lesser extant, today. To me, the ironic part about Tenally's Tavern was that Mary Tenally donated the land for St. Ann's Catholic Church. Not too long after that the tavern was put out of business under the law that said that a tavern couldn't operate within a certain distant of a church. An unintended consequence? Or just an example of "no good deed goes unpunished"? The first church north of Georgetown was what was pre civil war church, Zion/Eldbrooke Methodist Church 4100 River Rd., Wash. DC at the junction of River Road and Wisconsin Ave., NW, DC now closed and slated for sale. Sad, sad, sad, so much history is lost. See Judith Beck Helm's book "Tenleytown" - great book!! (Available at various local libraries including: Martin Luther King(MLK)/Washingtonia Room; I believe Library of Congress (LOC) and Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) library and it was available at DC branch library - Tenleytown before they closed it. Also available for purchase at Politics and Prose An independent bookstore in Washington, DC since 1984 <http://www.politics-prose.com/> email books@politics-prose.com, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20008, 1-800-722-0790 202-364-1919 202-966-7532 (Fax) I have no connection to this book, author and/or this book store. I am only providing this information as a possible assist to researchers of Tenleytown. Also there is a Tenleytown Historical Society - http://www.tenleytownhistoricalsociety.org/THS/index.php Hope some of this is helpful to somebody. Deborah In response to snip >>>> > 4. Re: Tennleytown COLLINS (BADBDW@aol.com) > 5. Re: Tennleytown COLLINS (Kathleen Bowen) > 7. Re: Tennleytown COLLINS (Elizabeth Whitaker) > Message: 4 From: BADBDW@aol.com What are the geographic boundaries for TenneleyTown? Message: 5 From: "Kathleen Bowen" <kathleen.bowen@gmail.com> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenleytown Message: 7 From: "Elizabeth Whitaker" <whitakere@gmail.com> >It was centered on Tenley Circle? Or Tenley Circle was named for >Tenleytown? <<<<< unsnip