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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM263X_chemistry-courtyard_College-Park-MD.html
On the occasion of his retirement, the development of this courtyard is dedicated to Mr. Kevin Brown and the men and women of the Department of Building and Landscape Services who helped it grow.
For more than 30 years Mr. Brown played a key ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM263W_agricultural-experiment-station_College-Park-MD.html
First headquarters
of
The University of Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station
placed here on the occasion
of the station's centennial
March 3, 1988
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM263V_trolley-trail_College-Park-MD.html
Electric trolleys or streetcars arrived in College Park along the Rhode Island Avenue right-of-way at the turn of the 20th century. The Old Town neighborhood developed as a streetcar suburb and trolley service continued until 1962, when the DC tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM263U_taliaferro-house_College-Park-MD.html
The Taliaferro House was built circa 1893. This photograph depicts the house in 1932. It was clad with asbestos shingles in the 1960's. Architectural features of this simplified Queen-Anne style house include a wraparound porch, canted oriel windo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262Z_patrick-zentz_College-Park-MD.html
Three works of art have been created to translate wind into sound. Using temperature changes and wind, these instruments create continually changing aural patterns. These instruments respond to subtleties in wind velocity and turbulence with man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262Y_michael-singer_College-Park-MD.html
The Healing Garden consists of a series of low granite walls, benches and water elements set within the landscape of the building's courtyard. One of the water elements integrates a series of textured granite and bronze runnels that vary the sou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262X_army-aviation-school_College-Park-MD.html
The first Army Aviation School set up operations at the airfield in 1911, with 5 new aeroplanes (2 Wrights, 2 Curtiss, 1 Burgess-Wright) and 4 hangars adjacent to the road.
Several of the civilian hangars had to be relocated to be in line with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262W_general-aviation_College-Park-MD.html
In 1910, civilian aviator and inventor Rex Smith came to the airfield. He started the Rex Smith Aeroplane Company and built a hangar on the field.
In 1911, they were joined by the National Aeroplane Company (NACO), which was formed to give inst…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262V_airmail_College-Park-MD.html
In May 1918, the first U.S. Airmail was inaugurated using Army pilots and planes. Three months later, the Post Office Department took over the operations and started the first postal airmail service from College Park on August 12, 1918. Max Miller…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262U_old-parish-house_College-Park-MD.html
Built in 1817, the Old Parish House originally served the Calvert Mansion as a dairy barn and is one of only two surviving outbuildings from the Riversdale Estate. It is one-story high with a gable roof, segmentally arched windows and side walls s…