Historical Markers in Prince George's County, Maryland
40 Members of the Col. John Addison Family
A Farm for St. Elizabeths, 1891-1950
A Nation of Immigrants / The Original 13 States
A New Nation's Capital
A Park with a Past
A Valiant Stand
A Voice Unheard
A Workplace of Many Generations
A Little Dam Powers the Avondale Mill
Abraham Hall: An African American Benevolent Lodge
Abraham Lincoln
Adam F. Plummer
Addison Family at National Harbor
Adelphi Mill
African-Americans at Mount Calvert
Africans Becoming Americans
After the Addisons
Agricultural Experiment Station
Alarming Sight
All Veterans of Seat Pleasant
American Milking Devon Cattle
America's Military Takes Flight
America's Team Protecting Your Freedom
An Angel Among US
An Evolving Landscape
Andrews Air Force Base
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Tree
Another Shot
Archaeology at Oxon Hill
Archaeology at the Brick Quarters
Archaeology at the Frame Quarters
Archbishop John Carroll
Architectural History of the Maryland Agricultural College
Arthur "Al" Welsh, 1881-1912: Pioneer Aviator
Aviation History
Avondale Mill
Avondale Mill: A Lost Treasure
Baltimore-Southern Maryland Trunk Line
Barney Monument
Baseball in the Grove
Battery Decatur and Disappearing Guns
Battle of Bladensburg
Bealls Pleasure
Belair
Belair Mansion
Belair on the Home Front
Belair Stable
Bellefields
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center - West
Betty's Garden
Billingsley's Point
Birthplace of John Carroll
Bishop Thomas John Claggett
Blacksox Park
Bladensburg
Bladensburg Dueling Grounds
Bladensburg Floods (1742-1954)
Bladensburg Monuments
Blair Lee III
Blown to Atoms
Bostwick
Bostwick
Bowie Railroad Station Museum
Bowie State University
Brentwood Veterans Park
Brig Gen Leonard Covington
British Advance
British Disgrace
British Stopover
Broad Creek Historic District
Browns Tavern
Bungalow Row
Buzzy's Pits
Calvert Family Cemetery
Calvert Hall
Calvert Hills: A National Register Historic District
Calvert Manor
Capital Guardian
Capital Guardian
Capital Guardian
Capital View
Caponiere
Carrington Avenue
Casualties of War
Casula Point
Cat and Mouse
Changing Guard
Chapel Hill
Charity Hall
Charles Town
Charlton Avenue
Cheltenham United Methodist Church
Chemistry Courtyard
Cherished Homeland
Cherry Hill Cemetery
Chesapeake Beach Railway
Christ Episcopal Church
Christian A Fleetwood
Church of the Atonement, 1875
City of College Park
City of Greenbelt
Clarence Mitchell, Jr.
Class of 2002
Clearing the Way to Washington
Climate Change and Jug Bay
Clinton
College Park
College Park Airport
College Park Airport
College Park Airport
College Park War Memorial
Colonial Ropemaking
Columbia Air Center
Community Center
Conservation Leaders
Cornelius Fonville House
Cory House
Counterscarp Battery
Crawford's Adventure Spring
Croom
Crossing the River
Crossroads of Trade and Travel
Crucifix
Darnalls Chance Burial Vault
Dedicated to the Memory
Delta Launch Vehicle
Dervey Augusta Lomax
Detachment 330 and Arnold Air Society Veterans Memorial
Development at the Wilson Farm Site
Dinosaur Alley
Discover Gorgeous Southern Prince George's
Doswell Brooks House
Dr. John H. Bayne of Salubria Prince of Horticulture
Dr. John H. Bayne: A Leader In His Community
Dr. William Beanes
Dueling Grounds
Dueling Grounds
Duels and the Bladensburg Dueling Grounds
Duncanson Avenue
Early Buildings on St. Mary's Place
Eastern Bluebird
Ebenezer Meeting House
Ecosystem Farm
Edlavitch-Harmel House
Edmonston Road
Edmonston Veterans Park
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Keckly
Emancipation in Maryland
Encampment of Coxey's Army (1894)
Enemy Bluff
Engineering 100
Engineering Evolution
ERCO
ERCO and Calvert Homes
Eternal Tribute
Explosive Scene
Fairmount Heights Elementary School
Fairmount Heights Methodist Church
Family, Church and Community in Lakeland
Famous Footsteps
Firepower on the Potomac
First Alarm System
First Americans at Mount Calvert
First Baptist Church
First People of the Potomac
First United Methodist Church of Laurel
First Unmanned Balloon Ascension (1784)
Fishing the Potomac River
Flying the Mail
Fort Lincoln
Fort Lincoln Mausoleum
Fort Washington Park
Founders Gateway
Frederick Douglass
Free African Americans of Oxon Hill
From Huntington to Bowie - The History
From Plantation to Suburb; a Community Grows
Front Door to Maryland History
Gas Station
George Washington Carver
George Washington House
Gladys Noon Spellman Trail and Overpass
Gluckstern Garden
Graham Cracker
Greenbelt
Greenbelt Historic District
Greenbelt Homes Inc.
Greenbelt Lake
Greenbelt Museum
Greenbelt Park
Greenbelt Park
Greenbelt Park
Greenbelt: A Bold Experiment
Greenbelt: A Bold Experiment
Grooved Runway
Gwendolyn Britt Senior Activity Center
Hall Station
Harrison Store
Henry Pinckney House
Heritage Breeds
Highland Park High School
Hilleary-Magruder House
His Lordships Kindness
Historic Bladensburg Waterfront Park - Port Town History
Historic Fort Lincoln Cemetery
History of the Wilson Farm
Hog Island Sheep
Holbrook House
Holy Trinity Church
Hyattsville
Immanuel Church
In Honor and Remembrance
In Honor of the Men and Women of Fairmount Heights who Served in World War II
In Memory of John Rogers (1723 - 1789)
Indian Queen Tavern
Iris
Iron Production: Maryland's Industrial Past / The Ironmaking Process
Ironclad Killer
It's A Bird, A Plane, An Airport?!
James F. Armstrong House
Javelin (Argo D-4)
Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling Conservation Trail
John Hanson
John Hanson
John Hanson
John S. Johnson House
John Smith Explores the Chesapeake
John W. Greene
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth and his companion David Herold
Join the Adventure
Joshua Barney's Barge and the Chesapeake Flotilla
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Judah and Resistance
Keleher Avenue
Lakeland at the Beginning
Land Shaping People
Laurel
Laurel Cotton Mill and Dam
Laurel Factory: A Mill Town
Laurel Factory: Prince Georges County's Only Mill Town
Laurel Harnessed the River to Power the Cotton Mill
Laurel Harnessed the River to Power the Cotton Mill
Laurel Railroad Depot
Laurel: A Factory Town Bridging Two Counties
Laurel: Half-way between Baltimore and Washington
Leaf, Land, and People
Legion Circle
Leo Van Munching
Lincoln
Little Church of Fort Lincoln
Living Sculpture
Load. Ready. Fire!
Louise F. Cosca Regional Park
MacAlpine Farm
MacAlpine Icehouse
Main Gateway
Man and the River
Marietta
Marines & Flotillamen
Marlboro Academy
Marlborough
Marshall Hall
McDonnell House
Meet Astrodon johnstoni
Melford and Cemetery
Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary
Methodism in Laurel
Methodist Preaching Place
Michael Singer
Millard E. Tydings
Minefields
Misery
Montpelier
Moon Tree
Morrill Hall
Mother Jones
Mount Airy
Mount Calvert Federal Period Plantation House
Mount Calvert Historical and Archaeological Park
Mount Calvert Historical and Archaeological Park
Mount Calvert Manor
Mount Calvert, Early Town
Municipal Center Site
Neighbor to the Nation's Capital
New Forts for a New War
New Guns for an Old Fort
Nike-Black Brant
Nike-Tomahawk
Northampton Plantation Slave Quarters
Northampton Slave Quarters and Archaeological Park
Nottingham
Old Parish House
Old Spring House
Omicron Delta Kappa
Original Federal Boundary Stone SE 6
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Northeast 3
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Northeast 4
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Northeast 5
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Northeast 6
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Northeast 7
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Northeast 8
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Northeast 9
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 1
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 2
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 3
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 4
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 5
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 6
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 7
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 8
Origins of Lake Artemesia
Osborne Perry Anderson
Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm
Oxon Cove, the Potomac, and the Chesapeake
Patrick Zentz
Patuxent River
Peace Cross
People Shaping the Land
Piscataway
Piscataway
Polar Robotic Ranger
Potomac Fisheries
POW MIA
Preserving the Past
Prince Georges County
Pumpkin Ash Trail
Queens Chapel Methodist Church, Established 1868
R. Lee Hornbake Library
Railroad History in Bladensburg
Reporting for Duty
Restless Time
Rhode Island Ave Trolley Trail
Ridgeley Rosenwald School
Ridgley
River View & Notley Hall
Riverdale Park
Riverdale School
Riverfront Park
Riversdale
Riversdale Plantation
Robert S. Nichols House
Rockets on the Hill
Roosevelt Center
Root Cellar
Route One, Our Hometown Main Street
Sacred Heart Chapel - White Marsh
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz
Saint Monica
Salubria
Salubria Changed the Future of the Potomac Valley
Samuel Hargrove House
Schoolhouse Pond
Schrom Airport
Science and History Together
Second Line Falls
Second Line Falls
Seeking Freedom
Self-Destruction
Shaded Reprieve
Shifting Sands: The Story of Rosalie Island
Shot and Shell
Signs of War
Site of Laurel's Civil War Hospital
Site of Maryland's First State Tree Nursery, 1914-1950
Site of Rhodes Tavern
Site of Silesia School
Site of The Old Stone Methodist Church
Site of Van Horn's Tavern
Skipjacks
Slavery in the Potomac Valley
Slaves Infirmary [on His Lordships Kindness]
Sounding Rockets
Squire W. Garland
St. Barnabas' Church
St. Ignatius Church
St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
St. Philip's Episcopal Church
St. Simon's Episcopal Mission
St. Simon's Mission, 1896
St. Thomas' Parish Church
Stables/Tack House
Storming the Bridge
Suffrage Motorcade
Surratt Tavern
Sweet Sorghum
Swimming Pool
Sylvan Vista Baptist Church
T. B.
T. B.
Taliaferro House
The Addisons of Oxon Hill Manor
The Alexandria Waterfront
The Architecture of Oxon Hill Manor
The Battle of Bladensburg (1814)
The Belair Stud Farm
The Bill of Rights / The Statue of Liberty
The Blacksmith Shop
The Bowie Caboose
The Bowie Caboose
The Burning of Washington, D.C.
The Capture of Alexandria
The Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Driving Tour
The Chesapeake Carousel
The Cisterns
The City of Hyattsville
The Cloud Club
The Compass Rose
The Constitution / The 19th Amendment
The DeButts Family Comes to Maryland - Mount Welby
The Declaration of Independence / President John F. Kennedys Inaugural Address
The Dinosaurs of Dinosaur Park
The Duckett Cabin
The First People
The First Telegram
The First Telegraph Line (1844)
The Founding of Maryland
The Gettysburg Address / The Emancipation Proclamation
The Grove Community
The Growth of the Black Middle Class
The Harry Smith House
The History of Watkins Regional Park
The Hon. Frances Payne Bolton
The Hyattsville National Historic District
The Incidental Cause of the Star-Spangled Banner (1814)
The Industrial Heritage of Dinosaur Park
The Lewis & Clark Expedition / The 15th Amendment
The Lincoln Oak
The Louisiana Purchase / Edison's Light Bulb Patent
The Magruder Spring
The Market Square & Stone House
The Mary Surratt House
The Masonic Lodge No. 92 / The Columbine Chapter No. 46
The Mortar Battery
The National Colonial Farm
The Nation's River
The Northwest Demi-Bastion
The Nottingham Schoolhouse
The Original Municipal Center
The Potomac Heritage
The Potomac Highway
The Remarkable Plummer Family
The Right Will Prevail
The Riversdale Dependency
The Road to the Capital
The Road to the Capital
The Road to the Capital
The Road to the Capital
The Road to the Capitol
The Rossborough Inn
The Sears House
The Site of the Residence of Dr. William Beanes
The Terrapin Memorial
The Tobacco Economy
The Town of Brentwood
The Town of Nottingham
The Town of Riverdale Park
The Town of Riverdale Park
The Treaty at Fort McIntosh / President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" Address
The Walk of History
The War of 1812
The War of 1812 and the Chesapeake Flotilla
The Water Battery
The William Sidney Pittman House
This Clock
This Demiculverin
This Memorial Honors Philip Reed
This Memorial is Dedicated
This White Oak Tree
Thomas J. Ashe, Sr.
Thomas John Claggett, D.D.
Thomas R Hawkins
Thomas Sim Lee
Three Sisters: Close Knit Communities of the Laurel Area
Thrift School
Time of Horror
To Serve and Defend / Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
Toaping Castle
Tomb of Dr. William Beanes
Tomb of Dr. William Beanes
Town of Berwyn Heights
Town of Berwyn Heights
Town of Berwyn Heights
Traband House
Tragedy Strikes Trooper 2
Trammell-Taylor House
Traveling on the Potomac River
Tried for Treason
Triple Crown
Trolley
Trolley Trail
Turn of Events
Two Centuries of Farm Buildings
Two Worlds Meet in the Summer of 1608.
U.S. Air Force Special Air Missions
Undaunted In Battle
University of Maryland Memorial Chapel
Up in Flames
Upper Marlboro
Van Horns Tavern
Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial
War All Around
War Comes to Mount Welby
Washington Quad Renovation
Washington, Spa Spring & Gretta Railroad
Water
Water Battery
Water From the Dam Powered the Cotton Mill
Waugh Avenue
Weary Warriors
Welcome to Dinosaur Park
Welcome to Dinosaur Park
Welcome To Fort Foote
Welcome to Fort Washingtons Waterside Trail
Welcome to Riversdale
Welcome to the Luther Goldman Birding Trail
Welcome to the Riverdsale Garden
Welcome to the Visitor Center
Welcome to
Marr Field
Wheat and Tobacco
When the Iron was Hot: African American Ironworkers of Muirkirk
Why a Brick Stable?
William Beanes
William Levitt and Sons, Belair-at-Bowie
William Sidney Pittman and Portia Washington Pittman House Site
Williams Plains
Woodland Indian Villages on the Patuxent River
Woodland Indians
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge
Woods Hall Rain Garden
Woodville School
Working to Improve the River
World War II Honor Roll
World War II Memorial
World War II Monument
"From Stagecoach to Streetcar to Subway: A College Town Emerges"
"Maryland's Bounty"
"May Peace Prevail on Earth"
"The University of Maryland Is Deeply Rooted in History"
Coach James W. Crawford
Hitching Post Hill or Ash Hill
Melwood Park
Mount Lubentia
On the Shoulders of Giants
Warburton Manor
About Prince George's County
Prince George's County Timeline
Prince George's County, Maryland has a rich history dating back to the arrival of European settlers in the 17th century. Originally home to Native American tribes such as the Piscataway and Yaocomico, the area was explored by the English in the early 1600s. In 1696, Prince George's County was established and named after Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne. The county became a significant agricultural region, with tobacco being the primary crop.
During the American Revolutionary War, Prince George's County played a crucial role in the fight for independence. Many residents joined the Continental Army, and the county served as a crucial transportation route between Maryland and Virginia. The county's plantations were also centers for pro-Revolutionary activities. Notable figures from Prince George's County, such as Thomas Stone and Samuel Ogle, played important roles in the early days of the United States.
In the 19th century, the county's agricultural economy shifted from tobacco to other crops such as wheat and corn. The construction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in the mid-1800s brought significant changes to the region, spurring industrial development and urbanization. Towns and communities grew around the railway stations, leading to the establishment of schools, churches, and businesses.
In the 20th century, Prince George's County experienced rapid population growth and suburbanization. The county became a popular residential area for those working in nearby Washington, D.C., leading to the construction of numerous housing developments. The county also became a hub for government and educational institutions, hosting the University of Maryland and numerous federal agencies. Today, Prince George's County is a dynamic area with a diverse population, a mix of suburban and urban areas, and a thriving economy.
During the American Revolutionary War, Prince George's County played a crucial role in the fight for independence. Many residents joined the Continental Army, and the county served as a crucial transportation route between Maryland and Virginia. The county's plantations were also centers for pro-Revolutionary activities. Notable figures from Prince George's County, such as Thomas Stone and Samuel Ogle, played important roles in the early days of the United States.
In the 19th century, the county's agricultural economy shifted from tobacco to other crops such as wheat and corn. The construction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in the mid-1800s brought significant changes to the region, spurring industrial development and urbanization. Towns and communities grew around the railway stations, leading to the establishment of schools, churches, and businesses.
In the 20th century, Prince George's County experienced rapid population growth and suburbanization. The county became a popular residential area for those working in nearby Washington, D.C., leading to the construction of numerous housing developments. The county also became a hub for government and educational institutions, hosting the University of Maryland and numerous federal agencies. Today, Prince George's County is a dynamic area with a diverse population, a mix of suburban and urban areas, and a thriving economy.
Prince George's County Timeline
This timeline provides a glimpse into the major events and milestones that have shaped the history of Prince George's County, Maryland.
- 1696: Prince George's County is established by the Maryland General Assembly.
- 1721: The county courthouse is built in Upper Marlboro.
- 1776: Prince George's County citizens sign the Declaration of Independence.
- 1801: The town of Bladensburg becomes the county seat.
- 1850: The Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens in the county.
- 1864: The Battle of Bladensburg takes place during the American Civil War.
- 1880s: The establishment of streetcar lines leads to suburban development in the county.
- 1908: The Washington Senators baseball team moves to Prince George's County and becomes the Washington Nationals.
- 1930: The University of Maryland, College Park is founded in the county.
- 1958: The Capital Beltway (Interstate 495) is completed, connecting the county to the surrounding areas.
- 1974: The Washington Metro Green Line begins service in Prince George's County.