ATHA Inc. has moved to the Magruder House (4701 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, MD 20710) just around the corner from Bladensburg Waterfront Park. Sharing space in Bladensburg’s oldest building with AEON Preservation Services and Prince George’s Heritage Inc., ATHA Inc. will have limited public hours. Our email and phone numbers remain the same. Mail may now [...]
Horticultural. CELERY. The production of goods celery is a point well worthy the care of the gardener. Few vegetables are more highly prized were require so much attention from the time the seed is sown till it is furnished to the table. The droughts of summer and the severe frosts of winter are [...]
[Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.] Port Tobacco, Charles co., Md., September, 1842 Piscataway is a gloomy and forlorn looking village of Prince George's county, and is situated on Piscataway Creek, about eight miles above its mouth, and distant by water communication about twelve miles from Alexandria, and by land eight - it is distant [...]
Beginning on Friday, August 28, and continuing through Thursday, September 3, 2015, the newly restored Old Greenbelt Theatre will be showing the new film “Rosenwald” which tells the story of Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), president of Sears, Roebuck and Company from 1908 to 1924, and one of America’s great philanthropists. Although Rosenwald was involved with many [...]
"Probably All Overcome by Heat" in August 1900. Thomas Cook, forty years old, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was overcome by the heat on the street this morning. The police of the first precinct book, him to the Emergency Hospital for treatment. Frank Toy, seventy years old, whose home is at Lehigh, Pa., became [...]
125 years ago, The Sun newspaper reported the following tidbits of local interest: Bosny Fleet, colored, who is charged with illegal voting last fall, was captured yesterday and lodged in the upper Marlboro' jail. A frame building adjoining the Gazette office and Upper Marlboro' caught fire yesterday. The flames were extinguished by the town fire [...]
"ARE WE THERE YET?" ALMOST!---- Glenn Dale Day at Marietta House Museum Please join us for “Glenn Dale Day,” on the grounds of Marietta House Museum on Saturday, July 25, 2015, from 1pm. – 6pm. This is a FREE admission event; however, food, wine, and crafts will be available for purchase. Bring a lawn chair and/or blanket, [...]
St. Mary's Parish will celebrate the 375th anniversary of the founding of the Piscataway Catholic Community, on Sunday, July 5th, 2015. The community's history dates to the Baptism of the Piscataway Chief Kittamaquund by Fr. Andrew White, S.J., on July 5th, 1640. This event occurred in what would become the territory of the Parish, [...]
How Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia -- both more than 200 years old -- they deal with the challenge of historic preservation makes for a genuine Tale of Two Cities. Our CBS Sunday Morning Cover Story is reported by Lee Cowan: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-tale-of-two-cities-2/
