Mount Hope
Metro Stop: Cheverly
- Orange Line
“There’s a Metro stop in Cheverly?”
Yes, though that question might be appropriate seeing as Cheverly has among the lowest ridership of any stop on the Metro. In fact, there may even be a house that the people of Cheverly recognize better than their own Metro stop. In the 1830s, the Magruder family owned a 716-acre tobacco plantation that is now the town of Cheverly. There stood a house on the plantation called “Mount Hope” which, after being renovated between 1919 and 1922, was occupied by Cheverly founder Robert Marshall. The house is so important to Cheverly that it appears on the official town seal and town flag and has been the town’s official symbol since 1931.