MILESTONES FROM HOT AIR BALLOONS TO STEPS ON THE MOON

Flight may have been “born” in Kitty Hawk, NC with the , but since 1784, Anacostia Trails Heritage MARYLAND MILESTONES Area has watched flight grow up. From hot air balloons HERITAGE CENTER to steps on the moon, the Heritage Area is a great place to 4318 Gallatin Street, Hyattsville, MD explore the “Maryland Milestones” of the history of flight. One block from the Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Trail In June 1784, Peter Carnes, owner of the Indian Queen and located in the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center Tavern in Bladensburg (near today’s George Washington House and the Bladensburg Waterfront Park) went out in Start your exploration of the Anacostia Trails the fields around Bladensburg to launch a balloon — based Heritage Area at the Maryland Milestones Heritage on the balloons launched in Paris the year before. This Center! With brochures, exhibits, and a rotating launch was an unmanned, tethered balloon. Later that year, event schedule, the Heritage Center is a great starting in Baltimore, he would successfully launch a balloon with a place in historic Hyattsville. Our partners work to passenger. preserve and promote the history, art, culture, and natural resources of northern Prince George’s County, Carnes’ balloon tests were a first step for . At the Maryland, located just outside Washington, D.C. turn of the twentieth century, two brothers from Ohio With a wide variety of historic sites, arts centers, — Orville and Wilbur Wright — held the first tests of an College Park Aviation Museum celebrates and commemorates the trails and rivers, and nineteen participating local airplane in North Carolina. After the successful tests in “field of firsts” andthe historical events that occurred at College governments, the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area is Park with family-friendly activities and programs. 1903, the brothers would be asked by the U.S. Army to a unique experience for visitors and residents. Our begin using planes as a military and defense vehicle. After these aviation firsts in College Park, the next participating communities in Maryland are:

step was to leave Earth behind. NASA Goddard Space • Beltsville • Glenn Dale Flight Center, was established in 1959 as the first central • Berwyn Heights • Greenbelt operations facility for NASA and led the early Mercury • Bladensburg • Hyattsville projects before being transferred to Johnson Space Center. • Bowie • Laurel Goddard SFC was the lead in the operations of the Hubble • Brentwood • Mount Rainier Space Telescope in the 1990s and helped build and test the • Cheverly • North Brentwood James Webb Space Telescope during the early 2000s. Today, • College Park • Riverdale Park engineers and space flight experts work in Earth sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center continues to innovate and • Colmar Manor • University Park experiment with technologies to learn more about the Earth and its astrophysics, heliophysics, and satellite development. • Cottage City • Prince George’s systems. Visit their Visitor Center to learn more. Visitors to the Goddard Space Flight Visitor’s Center can • Edmonston County experience the innovative work with exhibits and activities. Wilbur Wright took on this responsibility and helped to establish an airfield at College Park Airport in 1909. At The aviation tradition continues at the University of this field, military aviators were trained, including Frederic Maryland, with the Glenn Martin Hall (of Lockheed Humphries who was the first to fly solo in a military Martin fame), home to the University’s Wind Tunnel and plane. In 1918, the first service was established. In the Aerospace Engineering Department which holds the 1924, Emile and Henry Berliner tested some of the earliest human-powered flight record with Gamera. There is also a helicopter designs. Tests of navigation systems, machine neutral buoyancy tank for space simulation. guns, and altitude were all made on the “field of firsts.” Nearby, the “virtually un-spinnable” Ercoupe was made at Come and explore a new generation of aeronautics taking the ERCO factory, near Riverdale Park. flight here in the Heritage Area!

HERITAGE ROUTES • Linking the Nation: Transportation & Communication • From Hot Air Balloons to Steps on the Moon The following Heritage Routes are tours • Main Streets & Miracle Miles which connect multiple sites and themes. They can be accessed by foot, bike, or • Farms & Fields: Agriculture Heritage vehicle. Brochures for select routes are • Urban Outdoor Adventures available at the Maryland Milestones • Painting the Town: Arts & Humanities Visitors Center or find all of them at • Festivals & Farmers Markets www.marylandmilestones.org. • Battle of Bladensburg Walking Tour

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1 Bladensburg Waterfront Park 704 3 NASA Goddard VisitorBrightseat Road Center 5 Riverdale Park Station 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, MD 8800 Greenbelt Road, Lanham, MD 214 6621 Baltimore Avenue, Riverdale Park, MD L Seat Pleasant Drive a 193 rg o Operating Hours: Daily, Sunrise - Sunset Operating Hours: T-F, 10-3; S/S, 12-4 Exhibits about Ercoupe on display Ro Central Ave ad 301-779-0371 / www.pgparks.com 301-286-8981214 / www.nasa.gov/goddard Robert M. (Balloon Park located nearby) (Extended Hours July 1-August 31) Watkins 6 Maryland Milestones Heritage Center Regional Park 4318 Gallatin Street, Hyattsville, MD 2 College Park Aviation Museum 4 University of Maryland Visitors Center 301-887-0777 / [email protected] 1985 Corporal Frank Scott Dr., College Park, MD 1201 Turner Hall, College Park MD Operating Hours: Tue-Sat, 10-5; Sun 12-5 Operating Hours: Daily, 10-5 Operating Hours: Mon-Fri, 8-5; Sat, 9-3 301-864-6029 / collegeparkaviationmuseum.com 301-314-7777 / www.umd.edu Admission: $4/adults; $3/seniors; $2/ages 2-18 (Aeronautics sites by appointment only.)

This Project has been financed in part with State Funds from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality Photos: College Park Aviation Museum - MNCPPC; CPAM interior - S.L. Rogers; Historic ERCoupe, College Park of the State of Maryland and through funding provided by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, AviationMuseum Collection; UMD Day, University of Maryland/Consoli; NASA Goddard, Webb Telescope images - Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County. However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect NASA; Hot Air balloons - Erin Kohlenberg via Flickr, creative commons license, little flyers - A. Marcavitch the views or policies of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority or Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.