Part Four APPENDICES Part 4: Gibbons Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, (Historic Site 86B-001)Brandywine, 2009 Appendix A h istory of prince george’s county History1 Establishment of the County The land that we know today as Prince George’s County The Maryland colony flourished at St. Mary’s City and was occupied for thousands of years before the first enjoyed peaceful relations with the neighboring tribes. Europeans sailed to these shores. There is considerable Settlers soon left the confines of the original settlement. evidence of Native-American settlements along both the New counties were created, and within 30 years, farms Patuxent and Potomac Rivers; hundreds of prehistoric and plantations lined both the Patuxent and Potomac sites indicate the presence of many villages and Rivers well into the land that is Prince George’s County temporary camps in the centuries before the arrival of today. In the mid-seventeenth century, all of this land European colonists. was included in Calvert and Charles Counties, which were established in 1654 and 1658, respectively. The The first recorded visit to Prince George’s County by a land along the Patuxent was part of Calvert, while that European was in the summer of 1608, when Captain along the Potomac was part of Charles. By 1695, 1,600– John Smith sailed up the Potomac River, probably as far 1,700 colonists lived in this area, a number sufficient in as Great Falls, Virginia. Two peoples inhabited the county the opinion of Governor Francis Nicholson to deserve in Smith’s time: the peaceable Piscataways, whose villages the right of self-government. The General Assembly ranged from the Anacostia River southward into Charles agreed, and on St. George’s Day, April 23, 1696, a new and St. Mary’s Counties, and who were acknowledged county was established, named for Prince George of to be the dominant tribe of the Western Shore; and the Denmark, husband of Princess Anne, heir to the throne warlike Susquehannocks, who roamed and hunted in of England. The first county seat was at Charles Town the northern part of the county, constantly pressing the on the Patuxent, one of the port towns established in Piscataways for more and more land. 1683 by the General Assembly. The new Prince George’s County extended from the Charles County line on the John Smith’s visit in 1608 was an exploratory expedition south all the way to the Pennsylvania border and marked only; no settlement was intended. Over the next 25 Maryland’s western frontier. It remained the frontier years, English traders paid frequent calls upon the county until 1748, when the westernmost regions were natives here, sometimes to trade, sometimes to do granted their own government, and Prince George’s battle. The most significant early contact came in 1634, County’s northern boundary became basically the line it just days after the first Maryland colonists landed near is today. the mouth of the Potomac River. Advised by an English trader to meet with the Piscataways before establishing In 1692, four years before the establishment of Prince a settlement there, Governor Leonard Calvert sailed George’s County, the Church of England became the up the Potomac to the tribe’s principal town, located established church of the Maryland colony through an on Piscataway Creek in the southern part of what was Act of the General Assembly. By this time, ten counties to become Prince George’s County. Governor Calvert had been established in the colony, and those counties established good relations with the Piscataways, and, were divided into 30 parishes. When Prince George’s after consultation, he returned downriver to found St. County came into being in 1696, two parishes had Mary’s City, Maryland’s first settlement. already been established within its boundaries: St. 1 This history is based on “Prince George’s County: A History” Paul’s Parish in the area that had been part of Calvert prepared for the 1981 Historic Sites and Districts Plan by Alan Virta, a County, and Piscataway (or King George’s) Parish in the member of the 1980-81 Citizens Advisory Committee for the plan; it area that had been part of Charles. At this time, there was revised, expanded and updated by Historic Preservation Section was already a church at Charles Town, the busy port staff in 1992 and again in 2009. town on the Patuxent which was to be Prince George’s County’s first county seat. This small church building was used as a meeting place for the new county court Appendix A•History of Prince George’s County until a new courthouse was completed in 1698. St. Paul’s moved there from Charles Town. The General Assembly Parish also had a rural chapel for residents of the more consented to the move, and the county court met for the remote regions, about 12 miles south of Charles Town. first time in Upper Marlborough in 1721. From this time In Piscataway Parish, the first church was built in 1696, until early in the twentieth century, Upper Marlboro (as at the site of present-day St. John’s Church, Broad Creek. it is now spelled) was the commercial, political, and social center of Prince George’s County, and it has remained The political divisions of the new county known as the county seat to this day. “hundreds” were totally distinct from the parish divisions and served the purposes of taxation as well In 1742, Bladensburg was established on the Eastern as judicial, legal, and military administration. In 1696, Branch of the Potomac, supplanting an earlier the new county was divided into six hundreds, and over settlement known as Beall Town one-half mile upstream the years, as the population increased, the six original on the Northwest Branch. Bladensburg together hundreds were divided to create geographically smaller with Upper Marlborough, Nottingham, Aire at Broad administrative units. (A century after its establishment, Creek, Queen Anne and Piscataway, became an official Prince George’s County was made up of 21 hundreds, tobacco inspection station in 1747 by Act of the General superseded in the nineteenth century by Election Assembly. Districts.) Some iron was mined and worked in the Upper Patuxent Eighteenth Century region, and water-powered mills were constructed on the abundant water courses. Despite this growth, Prince During the 1700s, the land of Prince George’s County George’s County remained predominantly agricultural. was gradually settled. Men and women from all parts Agriculture was the basis of the economy and directly of the British Isles, as well as other countries of Europe, or indirectly provided the livelihood for every resident. arrived to make homes here. Some came as free men, The crop at the heart of this agricultural economy was others as indentured servants. By the beginning of the tobacco. eighteenth century, landowners had turned to slave labor for the operation of their plantations, and large Tobacco created wealth for Prince George’s County, numbers of Africans were brought here to work as slaves. wealth that built fine plantation houses like Compton In 1706, the General Assembly of the Maryland colony Bassett and His Lordship’s Kindness, educated the passed an Act for the Advancement of Trade. This act children of leading families, supported the work of our reestablished Charles Town and also established five religious faiths, and fostered the arts such as theater, more port towns: Queen Anne, Nottingham and Mill dance, and music that flourished in Upper Marlborough Town on the Patuxent, Marlborough on the Western and other places. That wealth also provided the means to Branch of the Patuxent, and Aire at Broad Creek on enjoy leisure time in activities such as fox hunting and the Potomac. The following year, a supplementary act horse racing, and enabled planters to devote such care established the Town of Piscataway at the head of the to their horses and their breeding that Prince George’s Piscataway Creek. These trading centers grew; merchants County became a cradle of American thoroughbred built stores and sold everything from yard goods and racing. By and large, the lifestyles of the county’s wealthy shoe buckles to grubbing hoes, sugar and salt; lawyers planters were the product of indentured labor from and doctors established practices; innkeepers acquired Europe and, later, of enslaved labor from Africa. Tobacco licenses to sell liquor, and opened their doors to travelers also provided modest livelihoods for small, non-slave- and residents alike. holding farmers, and even served as legal tender for debts. Tobacco also created a prosperous, sophisticated The town that had been established on the Western society which traded its staple with English and Scottish Branch (soon called “Upper” Marlborough in order to merchants for goods from all over the world. distinguish it from “Lower” Marlborough in Calvert County) developed more rapidly than the other The earliest arteries of transportation had been the towns established in 1706 and 1707. By 1718, Upper waterways, and they remained important avenues of Marlborough had become such an active center that its commerce between port towns. But a network of roads inhabitants petitioned to have the court proceedings had developed by the beginning of the eighteenth

234 Preliminary Historic Sites and Districts Plan Appendix A•History of Prince George’s County century, establishing overland connections between and the Supreme Court building, stands on land that was the several port towns, and between the towns and the once part of Prince George’s County. The development parish churches. As the population increased, as the of the federal city was aided immeasurably by Benjamin political hundreds and the church parishes were divided Stoddert of Bladensburg, who acquired much of the land for more efficient management, and as new plantations needed by the federal government from local landowners were established, more roads were cleared to allow easier and later served as first Secretary of the Navy. communication between population centers. Land and court records show the construction of new roadways. In With the Declaration of Independence and the Maryland 1739 a survey ordered by the justices of the county court Declaration of Rights of 1776, the Church of England was described a network of more than 50 roads connecting no longer the official church and, for the first time, all the towns of Upper Marlborough, Piscataway, Queen “Christians and Roman Catholics” could freely practice Anne, Nottingham, Mill Town, Aire, and Beall Town, as their religions. Two Prince Georgeans were chosen well as the parish churches and their several rural chapels. to assume leadership roles. Thomas John Claggett of Road building increased during the middle years of the Croom became the first Episcopal bishop. John Carroll eighteenth century and in 1762 another road survey of Upper Marlborough became the first Roman Catholic indicated a significant increase in the miles of roadways. bishop and archbishop of the United States and was the At strategic points along the major roads, and especially founder of Georgetown University. Beginning in 1783, in the principal towns and river crossings, taverns were meeting at White Marsh, one of the oldest Catholic established; they catered to the needs of travelers, and establishments in Maryland, the Roman Catholic Church provided gathering places for the exchange of news and in America formulated its first constitution. opinions. Nineteenth Century Prince George’s County was not untouched by the great tide of national events during the revolutionary period. Prince George’s County had been spared extensive When the Revolution came, Prince Georgeans organized military action during the Revolutionary War, but such county committees to assist the Revolutionary effort was not to be the case in the War of 1812. In August 1814, here at home; and they sent many of their sons to fight the British sailed up the Patuxent to Benedict (Charles gallantly for the cause of independence. One of their County) and began a march through the county, through fellow citizens, John Rogers of Upper Marlborough, Nottingham, Upper Marlborough and Long Old Fields sat in the Continental Congress, which in July of 1776 (now Forestville), all the way to Bladensburg, where they voted to make the colonies free and independent defeated an ill-prepared army of American defenders, states. In September 1787, Daniel Carroll, also of Upper with a number of African-Americans in their ranks, and Marlborough, was one of the 39 men who signed the marched on into Washington to burn the capital city. newly framed Constitution for the United States. In April On their way back to their ships, they seized a Prince 1788, four distinguished Prince Georgeans attended Georgean, Dr. William Beanes of Upper Marlborough, the Ratification Convention in Annapolis and voted and took him with them to Baltimore. Francis Scott Key unanimously in favor of ratifying the Constitution. was on a mission to plead for Dr. Beanes’ release when he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry and wrote In 1790, when the Congress in Philadelphia decided the poem which became our national anthem, “The Star to locate the new federal capital somewhere along the Spangled Banner.” Potomac River, Prince George’s County ceded most of the land necessary to establish the District of Columbia. Those early years of the nineteenth century brought The ten-square-mile area was surveyed in 1791, and changes to the county. Although tobacco remained stone markers were erected during the following year predominant, farmers throughout the county began at the four corners and at one-mile intervals along the to experiment with new crops on land worn out by the lines. (Seventeen of these markers were located at the continuous cultivation of tobacco. In 1817, the first boundaries of Prince George’s County; sixteen of them county agricultural society in Maryland was founded survive.) Today, each of the great symbols of our three in Prince George’s County, and agriculturalists such as branches of government, the Capitol, the White House, Horace Capron, Dr. John Bayne and Charles B. Calvert attracted national attention with their agricultural

Preliminary Historic Sites and Districts Plan 235 Appendix A•History of Prince George’s County experimentation. The efforts of Charles Calvert brought was diversifying, some industry was developing, the about the establishment of the nation’s first agricultural fisheries of the Patuxent and Potomac yielded rich research college (now the University of Maryland at harvests, steamboats plied the Patuxent linking the College Park) here in 1858, further indication of the county to Baltimore, trains ran regularly on the line leadership of Prince George’s County in that field. between Baltimore and Washington, and above all, the growth of the staple crop, tobacco, remained a profitable New developments were not limited to agriculture. A enterprise. In fact, more tobacco was grown here than in new way of working, which involved great machines, any other county in Maryland, and more slaves tilled the mass production, and hundreds of workers, had evolved fields here than any other place in the state. The labor in England and the northern United States during the of the county’s black community helped guarantee that late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The prosperity; 90 percent of the county’s African-American Industrial Revolution crept into Prince George’s County residents were enslaved in 1860. But the old tobacco across its northern border with the establishment of society was to end, because forces beyond the control of cotton mills at Laurel in the 1820s, and the establishment any Prince Georgean would soon plunge the nation into of the Muirkirk Ironworks near Beltsville in the 1840s. a bitter Civil War. In the early years of the century, the first turnpike was constructed, linking Washington and Baltimore; about Prince George’s County, like the State of Maryland and 14 miles of the convenient, nearly straight roadway ran the nation, was divided during the monumental struggle through Prince George’s County. The prominence of the from 1861 to 1865. Although Maryland made no move turnpike was short-lived, because in 1835 the Baltimore to secede from the Union, there was great sympathy in and Ohio Railroad line was completed between Baltimore the county for the southern cause. In 1860, the county and Washington. The railroad brought momentous had a plantation economy and more than half of the change to the area, altering traditional methods of population was enslaved. The prominent families of travel, transforming small crossroad communities into Prince George’s County were slave holders and very population centers and, eventually, potential sites for much southern-oriented, and many of their sons went suburban expansion. The railroad provided the right-of- south to fight for the Confederacy. When the institution way on which Samuel F. B. Morse strung the country’s of slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia in first telegraph line in 1844. The success of the Baltimore 1862, many of the slaves of Prince George’s County fled to and Ohio Railroad also stimulated the planters of freedom there. Emancipation took effect in Maryland in southern Maryland to seek construction of another January 1865, and brought an end to the old plantation railroad through rural southeastern Prince George’s system. When the war ended three months later, the old County, to provide them easy access to the Baltimore Prince George’s County was gone, and the county began market. This goal was not realized, however, until after a second life. the Civil War. After the Civil War In politics, two sons of Prince George’s County achieved national distinction in those early years of the nineteenth The Civil War brought significant changes to Prince century. Gabriel Duvall of Marietta served for many years George’s County; some were immediately noticeable, as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, such as the freeing of the slaves. Small communities and William Wirt, a Bladensburg native, served for 12 of freedmen began to develop soon after the cessation years as United States Attorney General. In the course of hostilities, such as Rossville near the Muirkirk of the nineteenth century, five distinguished Prince Ironworks, Chapel Hill near Fort Washington, and Georgeans served as Governor of Maryland: Robert communities near the towns of Woodville, Queen Anne, Bowie of Nottingham, Samuel Sprigg of Northampton, and Upper Marlborough. Each of these communities Joseph Kent of Rose Mount, Thomas G. Pratt of Upper was centered on a place of worship, usually Methodist. Marlborough, and Oden Bowie of Fairview. The newly emancipated people proceeded to build their houses while supporting themselves working in the iron Prince George’s County then, as the nineteenth century furnaces or in railroad construction, and principally passed its midpoint, was prosperous. Its agriculture in farming. With the assistance of the Freedmen’s

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Bureau, these communities soon had schoolhouses and Twentieth Century teachers, beginning the significant movement toward As the twentieth century began, the influence of the black education. A substantial number of African- nation’s capital continued to expand into Prince George’s Americans moved out of Prince George’s County during County. New modes of transportation such as the the generation after the Civil War, especially into the streetcar and the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis District of Columbia. electric railroad offered additional opportunities for There were also changes in the county’s economy. residential development along the borders of the federal Agriculture remained the way of life, tobacco continued to city. Towns such as Mount Rainier, Colmar Manor, be the most important crop, and the large plantations by Cottage City, Brentwood, Capitol Heights, and Seat no means vanished. In the last decades of the nineteenth Pleasant began to develop during the first decade of the century, small farms growing tobacco and other crops new century. Several African-American communities played a larger role in the county’s economic life. Between like Fairmount Heights, North Brentwood, and Lincoln the end of the Civil War and the turn-of-the-century, the were established and attracted members of an increasing number of farms in Prince George’s County doubled, group of African-American professionals from the area. while the average farm size decreased dramatically. The new science of aviation made history in Prince Many of these new smaller farms were operated by freed George’s County, with the establishment of College Park blacks, but many more were owned by newcomers to Airport in 1909, and with military flight instruction there the county. As agriculture expanded, so did commercial by Wilbur Wright. In 1941, John Greene established the life and the importance of local commerce in the overall Columbia Air Center, the first black-owned airport in the economic picture. But this second life for Prince George’s county, on a field near Croom. The county’s prominence County, of small farms and local commerce, soon gave in the field of aviation was reinforced by the construction way to a force that would affect the county as profoundly of the ERCO airplane factory in Riverdale in 1939 and in as tobacco had in the past. That force was the growing 1942 with the construction of the new military airfield federal government and its expanding capital city. known today as Joint Base Andrews. A little known As Washington grew from a small town to a major remnant of the Cold War can be found in the Nike capital, it began to spill over into the adjoining counties. Missile site in Brandywine that was part of a network A new phenomenon, the residential suburb, began of 12 such sites encircling Washington, D.C., after World to develop in order to accommodate the increasing War II. Other large federal installations had moved number of federal employees and city workers. The into Prince George’s County during the first half of the new branch line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad century: Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, the had opened in 1872. It joined with the main line to large agricultural area of about 13,000 acres purchased southern Maryland at the Bowie junction and created by the U.S. government between 1910 and 1940; a second rail link between Washington and Baltimore. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center established in 1936; Speculators were quick to see opportunities for new and the Suitland Census Bureau complex established in residential development. In the 1880s and 1890s, more 1942. Finally in the late 1950s, the National Aeronautics and more residential communities were developed north and Space Administration (NASA) established its of Washington along both of the railroad lines, offering primary science center (Goddard Space Flight Center) federal employees the opportunity to live away from the in Greenbelt. These important government installations city in healthful surroundings easily accessible by rail. In exerted a significant influence on the employment towns such as Hyattsville, Riverdale, Charlton Heights patterns of county residents. (now Berwyn Heights), College Park, and Bowie, fine In the years after World War II, the county’s African- Victorian dwellings of the 1880s and 1890s still provide American residents lived in stable, growing towns and evidence of this booming period of suburban expansion. neighborhoods that were substantially separate from As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the county’s the predominant white community. This segregated population was 30,000, which was 30 percent higher development pattern had been established in the than it had been in 1860. years following the Civil War allowing local African- American communities to flourish, but in isolation.

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African-Americans focused their efforts on developing African-American population. In the decade between institutions such as schools and churches and providing 1980 and 1990, for the first time in the twentieth century, the services required in their segregated communities. the county’s population reflected a slight majority (50.7 Enterprising individuals opened barber shops and percent) of African-American residents. In addition, beauty salons and grocery stores that limited the need during this period there were substantial increases to venture beyond the safe haven of these developing in the numbers of local residents from Southeast Asia African-American towns. Eventually, these institutions and Central and South America. The 2000 U.S. Census which sustained local African-American communities identified more than 801,000 county residents. By 2007, provided the foundation for an emerging black political the county’s population was more than 828,000. In activism. this vast group, 65.6 percent of residents are African- American, and the entire population reflected more than The nascent civil rights movement of the post World 80 countries of origin. War II period did not escape Prince George’s County, and local efforts benefitted from advances in towns and The witness of more than 300 years has seen great change cities across the nation. Locally, many individuals and come to Prince George’s County. Once a struggling institutions, such as schools and churches, were the wilderness outpost, where men such as Colonel Ninian sites of events that resulted in significant changes for Beall and his county militia rode the frontier to guard the county’s African-American residents. With the legal against Indian raids, the county developed during end of housing segregation nationally in the mid-1950s, the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries into a African-Americans settled throughout the county and prosperous, sophisticated tobacco society. When that institutions and businesses grew to meet the demands society met its end in war, small farms growing tobacco of new neighborhoods and communities. and other crops and local commerce became the dominant ways of life, until Prince George’s County finally became Farming remained the way of life for many in the vast part of the expanding metropolitan area of Washington, rural areas beyond these new towns, but year by year the D.C., and now is a place where men and women of all percentage of the population earning their livelihood creeds, religions, races, national origins, and economic through agriculture declined as the denser suburban positions live and work. But despite these great changes, population close to Washington grew. New communities reminders of the past are all around us— sometimes also began to appear as the increasing use of the hidden from sight, and sometimes unrecognizable to automobile allowed for further residential development, the newcomer. Although most of our citizens live in a in some cases at a distance from railroad and trolley lines; suburban setting today, much of our land still retains its Cheverly, Greenbelt, District Heights, Morningside, New rural character, and agriculture is still the way of life for Carrollton and Glenarden are examples of this trend. some. If Prince Georgeans of today head out of the city, Prince George’s had been a county of 30,000 in 1900; beyond the Beltway and suburban developments into it became a county of 60,000 in 1930, and by 1950 had the large areas that are still country, they can walk into increased to almost 200,000. The expansion continued the woods or along the creeks and rivers and see, if for with increases to 350,000 in 1960, and more than just a moment, a Prince George’s County that the first 660,000 in 1970. settlers might have seen more than 300 years ago. Several factors, including school busing and a sewer moratorium, combined to slow the population explosion Selected Bibliography during the 1970s, so that the population increased only Listed below are general secondary sources which to 665,000 in 1980. This slowing trend was reversed provide basic background information on the history during the 1980s with the active encouragement of of Prince George’s County. These books, along with development, advances in the educational system, and many others on more specific aspects of our county’s diversification of employment bringing the population history (including histories of particular communities, to a figure well over 700,000 in 1990. By this time the organizations, churches, and families) can be found in county’s population was firmly engaged in a demographic the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System. shift from a majority white population to a majority Bowie, Effie Gwynn. Across the Years in Prince George’s

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County. Richmond, Virginia: Garrett and Massie, 1947. Prince George’s County Planning Department, M-NCPPC. 904 pages. Reprinted in 1975 by Genealogical Publishing Postbellum Archeological Resources in Prince George’s Company, Baltimore, Maryland. Biographies and County, Maryland: A Historic Context and Research Guide, genealogies of the County’s oldest families. publication expected fall 2009. A tool for archeologists, planners and researcher to assist in analyzing postbellum Floyd, Bianca P. Records and Recollections, Early Black historic resources in Prince George’s County. History in Prince George’s County, Maryland. M-NCPPC, 1989. 128 pages. An overview of the history of African- Van Horn, R. Lee. Out of the Past Prince Georgeans and Americans in Prince George’s County, with chapter Their Land. Riverdale, Maryland: Prince George’s County highlights on various important individuals and Historical Society, 1976. 422 pages. Chronological communities. account of events in the county’s history through 1861, taken mainly from legal and government records and Hienton, Louise Joyner. Prince George’s Heritage. from newspaper reports. Includes S. J. Martenet’s 1861 Baltimore, Maryland: Maryland Historical Society, 1972. map of the county, and a bibliography of books and 223 pages. Very readable history of the county from its articles on county history. founding until 1800. Includes map of tracts laid out prior to 1696. Virta, Alan. Prince George’s County. A Pictorial History. Norfolk, Virginia: The Donning Company, 1991. Hopkins, G. M. Atlas of Prince George’s County, Maryland. 308 pages. Excellent collections of rare historical Edited by Frank E White, Jr. Riverdale, Maryland: Prince photographs and other illustrations of Prince George’s George’s County Historical Society, 1975. 48 pages. County history, tied together with a highly readable, Reprint of an 1878 county atlas showing property history of the county from the period of colonization to owners, with an index. the 1980s. Prince George’s County Community Renewal Program. The Neighborhoods of Prince George’s County. 1974. 483 pages. Development patterns, land use characteristics, and other information on the 72 neighborhood units of the county. Includes capsule histories of each, with emphasis on 20th century development.

Prince George’s County Planning Department, M-NCPPC. Illustrated Inventory of Historic Sites. July 2006. Photographs of 305 designated historic sites with a summary of the architectural and historical significance of each.

Prince George’s County Planning Department, M-NCPPC. African-American Heritage Survey, 1996. An illustrated survey of 107 historic properties and communities significant to the African-American history of Prince George’s County.

Prince George’s County Planning Department, M-NCPPC. Antebellum Plantations in Prince George’s County, Maryland: A Historic Context and Research Guide, June 2009. A tool for cultural resource managers, planners and researchers studying antebellum properties in Prince George’s County.

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