 The municipality of North Brentwood is located north of Washington and is surrounded by the communities of Brentwood, Hyattsville, and Cottage City, and the nearby Mount Rainier.The Town of North Brentwood was incorporated in 1924, and was the first African-American-majority municipality in Maryland.The town is named after the Brentwood estate built in 1817 by Robert Brent in Northeast Washington, D.C.