Brookeville is a historically significant 19th century rural settlement in Upper Montgomery County, Maryland,approximately 18 miles north of the District of Columbia. Covering approximately 60 acres,the Town consists of 55 individual properties and has an estimated population of 135 residents.

Brookeville grew quickly as a bustling market town, with many houses, two mills, a tanning yard, stores, a post office,two schools, a blacksmith, a constable, two physicians, two shoemakers, a seamstress, and a carpenter.

During the early part of the 19th century, Brookeville was a center of commerce and education in an area that played an important role in the development of the science of agriculture.