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 [...]
TAKE STEPS TO ABOLISH DANGEROUS R. R. CROSSING HYATTSVILLE. Md.. May 2, 1917 At a meeting of citizens in Masonic Hall last night Mayor John G. Holden was empowered to appoint a committee of seven to confer with officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the public service commission to see if the dangerous grade crossing at this place could be eliminated. The [...]
Thursday 5-8, we will be mixing it up at the Calvert Brewing Company in Upper Marlborough. The Society gets 10% of Sales Bring all your friends and neighbors Plan on sampling Upper Marlborough's micro-brewery's finest! - Tap Room Open! 3-9 PM Come early stay late! - Tour & Meet The Calvert's Event - 15850 Commerce Ct. [...]
An Evening with Imara The Prince George’s County Historical Society and an anonymous donor sponsored a musical evening with Imara Ashton Miles at the Bowie Performing Arts Center on Friday, January 13, 2017. The Society was first introduced to Imara when she first sang Christmas Carols at one of the Society’s Holiday parties and was [...]
St. George’s Day 2017 Dinner and Awards Sunday, April 9, 2017, at 1 PM College Park Airport Operations Building This year we will be celebrating the 321st anniversary of the founding of our county at the College Park Airport. Established in 1909 as the military demonstration site for the Wright Brothers, College Park [...]
The Prince George's County Historical Society, in its continuing lecture series partnership with the Prince George's County Memorial Library System, invites you to attend the March 22nd lecture, "The Formation and Legacy of Freedmen Schools in Prince George's County, Maryland, 1866-1870". "Omar Shareef Price will be presenting on his dissertation title, ""Chasing the American Dream: The [...]
11 SOCIETY BOARD ELECTIONS At the Society’s December 13, 2016, annual membership meeting there were not sufficient members in attendance at the time of the meeting to hold the election of officers for 2017. Per the Society’s by-laws a quorum constitutes a minimum of 25 members. Therefore, in order not to delay the election of [...]
