Next Saturday, June 3rd 2017, 9:30-10:320 a. m., Prince George's County Historical Society members are invited to visit the newly restored chapel at Compton Bassett. For details, please email the Society at info -at- pghisotry.org please put the word CHAPEL in the subject line of the email
PEDESTRIANISM EXTRAORDINARY. ─ We yesterday conversed with a gentleman who assured us that, on Tuesday last, he left Baltimore at 8 o’clock A. M. and walked from thence to Bladensburg, from Bladensburg to Upper Marlborough, and from Upper Marlborough to this city [Washington, District of Columbia], which he reached at ten minutes before seven o’clock [...]
Colonel Thomas Brooke, Jr. of Brookefield (1659 – 1730/1731) was President of the Council in Maryland and acting 13th Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. He was the son of Major Thomas Brooke Sr. and Esquire, (1632–1676) and his second wife Eleanor Hatton, (1642–1725), who later remarried Col. Henry Darnall, (1645-1711).[1] Samuel Ogle [...]
Few residents, even the native variety, realize that Prince George's, County has an official song. With words by G. Frederick Orton of Hyattsville and music by William Moore, then editor of the Prince George's Post, Hail Prince Georges contains four stanzas and has a very pleasant melody. The song was adopted as the official song [...]
