 In 1873, some of the land along Addison Road was subdivided into small farms and rural home sites known as Jackson's Subdivision.Designers of the Chesapeake Beach Railway, constructed in 1897–99 between Washington, D.C. and Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, located their first station in Maryland outside Washington on the railway's right-of-way that traversed the Gregory property.They called the station "District Line".