Because of a portrait of Nathan Loughborough painted by Charles Peale Polk. Nathan named his oldest son Alexander and his second oldest son Hamilton. “That’s why that’s named Loughboro Road, because it ran to his house,” Johnston said. “So they cut off part of Loughboro Road and renamed it Nebraska Avenue.”Of course, neither Grassland nor Loughboro Road are anywhere near the Capital Crescent Trail in Bethesda. Nathan Loughborough purchased Milton and its accompanying tobacco plantation around 1820.

Source: Washington Post December 19, 2020 21:44 UTC