Originally the title of a village of the Piscataway tribe on the Anacostia River. Potomac - originally named Marysville soon after the wives of the two founders, John Smith and Isaac Meneley, who began corporations right here circa 1840. On May 13, 1871, a article office was founded at the city and was named Potomac, most likely immediately after the Potomac River. Holly finally befriends the other wives.