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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKW_riverdale-school_Riverdale-Park-MD.html
A holiday crowd gathered on this spot July 4, 1895, to celebrate the dedication of the first Riverdale School built by the Riverdale Park Company, developers of the new suburb of Riverdale Park. The two-room building, measuring 28 by 60 feet, had …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKJ_welcome-to-riversdale_Riverdale-Park-MD.html
In the summer of 1794, as French Republican troops approached Antwerp, Flemish aristocrat Henri Joseph Stier (1743-1821) and his family fled to Philadelphia, taking with them their most valuable possessions, including the finest collection of Old …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKE_anna-eleanor-roosevelt-memorial-tree_Greenbelt-MD.html
First Lady of the Land, First Lady of the World, wife of our 32nd President, First Chairman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. From this point she surveyed the site and spurred the work of building Greenbelt, the first garden community in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK6_this-demiculverin_Riverdale-Park-MD.html
Brought to Maryland in 1634 by the first colonists on the ships Ark and Dove, this demiculverin was presented to Charles Benedict Calvert of Riversdale in 1845. — Preservation and restoration was funded by the Maryland Heritage Committee of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGO_greenbelt-lake_Greenbelt-MD.html
Construction on the Greenbelt project began with this lake on October 12, 1935. Originally a heavily wooded 23-acre valley cut by a stream, the lake required one year and over two hundred men to complete it. Because the federal government was inte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF1_founders-gateway_College-Park-MD.html
(Right Tablet) Erected in honor of those through whose contributions was established The Maryland Agricultural College (list of names)
(Left Tablet) The University of Maryland The Maryland Agricultural College was founded on this campus in 1856…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM52_calvert-family-cemetery_Riverdale-Park-MD.html
Burial place of George & Rosalie Calvert, four infant children and Charles Benedict Calvert and his infant son. The Calvert family, descendants of the Lords Baltimore, lived at "Riversdale" from 1803 to 1887. Charles Benedict Calvert was a major f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4U_methodist-preaching-place_Greenbelt-MD.html
Bishop Francis Asbury, builder of Methodism in America, recorded nine visits to this place. The farm, called "Wild Cat," belonged to Shadrick Turner, planter. He and his wife Sarah, zealous laymen, hosted many meetings. Several United Methodist ch…