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Accokeek is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George's County, located about 8.5 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. The population was 7,349 at the 2000 census. It is home to Piscataway Park.

Captain John Smith was the first European to see the Accokeek area when he sailed up thePotomac River. Father Andrew White, an English Jesuit missionary, later visited the Indian village and chief in nearby Piscataway, MD. English farmers and planters settled the area in the late 17th century, and Christ Episcopal Church was established in 1723. Marshall Hallwas an outstanding colonial home southwest of Accokeek, in the river bottomlands nearBryans Road, Maryland.

After World War II, Maryland Route 210, a new 2-lane highway to Washington, D.C. opened rural Accokeek to settlement by commuters, attracting a limited number of settlers, especially U.S. Naval scientists and other intellectuals who built contemporary-style homes in an ecologically protected restricted area of west Accokeek called the "Moyaone Reserve" which retains a rural scenic character still to this day. Some of these homes were designed individually by architect Charles Wagner, an early Moyaone resident whose family are still active in the community.

Not until about 1990 did large-scale housing developments come closer to Accokeek than Fort Washington, Maryland. That was shortly followed by a supermarket, public library, and improved bus transit. Plans to build a Wal-Mart were defeated by local activists.

In the 1990s, Maryland Route 228 was linked with Route 210, offering Accokeek residents faster access to shopping in the fast-growing city of Waldorf. The intersection of Route 210 and Route 228, is one of only a handful of continuous flow intersections in the United States.

Italian arms company Beretta opened a factory in Accokeek in the 1970s. It won a federal contract to produce pistols for the military in 1985.