Brentwood is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

[5] The town was originally incorporated in 1922 and is named after the Brentwood estate built in 1817 by Robert Brent in Northeast Washington, D.C.[6] The town was developed beginning in the 1890s around the Highland Station of the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Columbia and Maryland Railway.

Captain Bartlett lived in Washington, D.C., until 1887, when he purchased 206 acres (0.83 km2) of farmland from Benjamin Holliday, which abutted the Highland subdivision.

Bartlett built a farmhouse for his family on the land and, with two partners J. Lee Adams and Samuel J.

The lots in the northern part of the subdivision, which eventually would become North Brentwood, were smaller and were subject to flooding from a mill race.

These lots were less expensive, and Bartlett encouraged their purchase by African-American families with whom he was indirectly associated from his command of U.S.

The more expensive lots to the south were purchased by white working-class families, many of whom were employed as federal government clerks.

In 1899 Bartlett purchased the Fenwick family farm which was located to the west of the Holladay Company's Addition to Highland.

With two new partners, J. Baker and Dr. Sigmund A. Czarra, Bartlett began the Brentwood Company.

In the 1950s, many older homes were replaced and empty lots were filled with small cottages and ranch-style houses.

[12] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.38 square miles (0.98 km2), all land.

Prince George's County Police Department District 1 Station in Hyattsville serves Brentwood.

[20] The United States Postal Service operates the Brentwood Post Office.

The more significant of the two is U.S. Route 1, which connects southward through Mount Rainier to Washington, D.C. and northward through North Brentwood, Hyattsville and College Park to Interstate 95/Interstate 495 (the Capital Beltway).

The other highway serving Brentwood is Maryland Route 208, which heads southeast to Cottage City and northwest to Hyattsville.