Appendix B DOCUMENTED HISTORIC COMMUNITIES This appendix includes summary descriptions and maps within more than one of the county’s planning areas. For of 57 historic communities throughout Prince George’s example, Riverdale Park (68-004) and West Riverdale County. Thirty-two of these community descriptions (68-093) are counted individually even though they were included in the 1992 Historic Sites and Districts Plan. are within the same municipality, but the Clagett An additional 25 communities, subsequently identified, Agricultural Area (78-000, 79-000 & 82-000) is counted are included here. Two additional communities, although as a single community even though it includes properties surveyed as part of the same effort, are not included here. in three planning areas. All 57 communities have been As locally designated historic districts, the Broad Creek the subject of “windshield”surveys. The purpose of Historic District and the Old Town College Park Historic such surveys is to identify the general characteristics District are the subject of a separate chapter in the plan. of each area including topography, street patterns, The county’s seven National Register Historic Districts, historic architecture, the types of buildings and uses, Mount Rainier, North Brentwood, Hyattsville, Riverdale and the boundaries of the surveyed area. The complete Park, West Riverdale, University Park, and Calvert Hills, windshield survey forms, which include additional and the Greenbelt National Historic Landmark District analysis, maps and representative photographs are are included in the detailed descriptions below and are available for review at M-NCPPC/Prince George’s indicated with the symbol NRHD or NHL. County Planning Department’s Historic Preservation Section or on the M-NCPPC/Prince George’s County The number of these communities in this appendix, Planning Department website, www.pgplanning.org/ 57, reflects the assignment of an individual Maryland About-Planning/Our_Divisions/Countywide_Planning/ Inventory of Historic Properties number for a Historic_Preservation.htm. distinguishable community, but not the double- counting of that community if it happens to be located Appendix B•Documented Historic Communities . R D Rossville (62-023) S TANM ORE D R . D O O W Legend G N O Rossville Survey L Historic Resource Historic Site OLD M U IR K IR K R OAD R D . IVE R D 0 180 360 720 1,080 Feet 242 Preliminary Historic Sites and Districts Plan Appendix B•Documented Historic Communities Rossville (62-023) largest lot on Old Muirkirk Road was purchased by the Rebecca Lodge #6 of the Benevolent Sons and Daughters Rossville is significant as an example of a small, late of Abraham, a fraternal organization whose purpose was nineteenth-century African-American rural settlement. to support its members in times of illness or emergency. Rossville was named for Augustus Ross, one of the On this lot they constructed a lodge now known as first landowners along Old Muirkirk Road. Rossville Abraham Hall (Historic Site/NR 62-023-07). Over the was formed by a group of freed African-Americans years, Abraham Hall has been used as a meeting place, who in 1868 established Queen’s Chapel, a Methodist church, and schoolhouse. congregation near Beltsville. Land for the church was purchased for five dollars from the Minnix family. The site The rural setting of Rossville remains largely intact, but was originally used as a burial ground for local African- subdivisions on the north and west of Rossville have Americans and a church was later built on the site. The begun to encroach on the landscape. The Muirkirk West chapel, a log structure, was also used as a schoolhouse Neighborhood Park, owned by M-NCPPC, is located for neighboring children. In 1886 individual members south of Old Muirkirk Road; it protects the viewshed of the congregation and other African-Americans of the neighborhood and provides a natural boundary. purchased 12 lots along the north side of Old Muirkirk Only a few late nineteenth-century buildings are extant; Road. By 1889 structures were erected on 11 of the lots. most have been replaced with twentieth-century In the late 1890s, Queen’s Chapel was destroyed by fire, construction. Most of the construction dates from the and a wood-frame building replaced the log structure. 1930s and 1940s. Architectural styles in Rossville reflect The congregation outgrew the second building and a range of popular styles from the 1890s to the 2000s constructed a larger brick church that was completed and include Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Dutch Colonial in 1956. For more than 100 years, Queen’s Chapel has Revival, and vernacular interpretations. Building forms served as a central gathering point for this small African- include I-houses, bungalows, Cape Cods, and ranch American community. houses. Many of the structures have been altered by rear and side additions. There are a variety of outbuildings in Residents of Rossville supported themselves by working Rossville, including garages, sheds, and trailers. at the nearby Muirkirk Iron Furnace and by farming. The Preliminary Historic Sites and Districts Plan 243 Appendix B•DocumentedE Historic Communities L L VI N SPR O O I T T A I N AU H H ST T G PL. T BLACKFOOT 9 8 H 4 ARD 4 T BOULEV 9 B 4 . Lakeland LA KFO PL C OT APACHE . T VE. L A H PL R . T D BE . T M . S ET 8 ST. Z 1 4 H L (66-000) ER P O 5 ST TT T 1 R EEN BR 0 D. ANCHVILLE RD. 5 R 5 G BRANCHVILLE RD. VE. VE. A GREENBELT RD. A TEC UMSE H ST. D AN R H U . A H T H SL AN T I T T 8 PL 8 9 4 4 4 SEM ST. I NOL VE. BERWYN E A Legend ST . VE. A R OAN H OKE T H ST 5 T INOLE Lakeland Survey QU . 5 6 SEM EBEC ST. 5 RD. QUEBE Historic Resource C BER AN AT PO ST. WYN U NTIAC TIAC R N 4 Historic Site PO 9 ST. T VE R EW H A D CAMPU . S VI A O . VE ST VE. SA A N T G AV ERR. E E AH D O T SAG ST O O E ST . E XEN H . U C T ST R A DE ME PA M TROIT AVE. LB . O O T R 5 U P R I 7 N VER L. E VE. PO T A . ST VE. H A H A T SI VE. 8 C D 4 OE INC LAKEL AH VE. INA E AN V A TI D NA VE. A AVE. ORE R SYCAM D. PA ST H IN AVE. 1 T 5 5 T PI 4 ER C 5 8 BAL E T H TI AVE. E M N O EV A BR AD R R A VE. E O AN M I ST T . C H H BAL T EN VE 4 D A N 5 LI . PL RTMOU P DA TH K W Y. AVE. VE. VE A VE. A VE A A N C OR OL VE WIC L A H EGE RD. KN S OX N N N A O VE. D PKI ET SO O R AN C D. VE. H N A A I SL I C R KER O D. BI LL C EG PR I M E D U L R VE EH D L I AVE. A GH CALVERT O VE C KN A VE. H OX A R T D D. 0 R GUIL VE. D FORD R 5 . A A AVE. V R A N R H I D. ROAD O FORDHAM VE. D D RD RD. A . W ST N CA 1 2 LVER . 5 5 BO T R DR EXEL D D RD. L T O E S K E CLEMSO A N R R H D W O T E . F U RD. U O 0 400 800 1,600 2,400 M T BEECHW VEN O A FeetOD RD. R A D 244 Preliminary Historic Sites and Districts Plan Appendix B•Documented Historic Communities Lakeland (66-000) Park, Lakeland, Hollywood, Daniels Park, Oak Springs, and Sunnyside were incorporated as part of the City Lakeland was developed as a late nineteenth-century of College Park in 1945. Lakeland remained a small resort community in northwest Prince George’s County. community in the 1950s and 1960s and saw little new The small neighborhood is located in the City of College development. Due to repeated flooding, in 1969 an Park directly east of the University of Maryland, College urban renewal project was begun. The plan included Park campus, north of Old Town College Park, and south building earthenwork dikes along Indian Creek, Paint of Berwyn. Lakeland is bounded by Baltimore Avenue Branch Creek, and Lake Artemesia to prohibit future (US 1) on the west and the CSX railroad tracks (formerly flooding and demolishing existing houses that were in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks) on the east. the floodplain. The issue divided the small community. Edwin A. Newman, a real estate developer based in Many feared the redevelopment would result in the Washington D.C., platted the community in 1890. displacement of families who had lived in Lakeland for Newman designed the community as an exclusive resort years. Over a 15-year period, the $5.7 million dollar area conveniently located near Lake Artemesia and project resulted in the demolition of 87 houses and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Newman called the resulted in the construction of 40 units of low-income community Lakeland, “on account of the beautiful lake housing, 86 townhouses, 7 single-family houses, and 2 which is to form a delightful feature of its landscape.