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Rockville, city (1990 pop. 44,835), seat of Montgomery co., W central Md., a NW suburb of Washington, D.C.; settled c.1760s, inc. as a city 1860. It has several scientific research and technology laboratories that focus on the aerospace, electronics, nuclear energy, and communications industries. The Food and Drug Administration is there, as is a campus of Montgomery College. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, are buried in a local cemetery.
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