Posted by Karen --Previous Message--
on December 20, 2005, 12:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Lanham MD, Hynesboro "
216.195.167.183
Wonderful! I would love to read your history report. Thanks so much for offering to mail it. My address is
170 Mountain Road
Falmouth, ME 04105
: To Karen Hart Anthony
:
: Several years ago I did some research on
: this property and wrote a report on it. I
: will make a copy of this report (I do not
: have it in electronic form) and send it to
: you if you e-mail to me your mailing address
: (see e-mail address above). If you e-mail
: it right away, I can get this in the mail to
: you before I leave town for a week. The
: report will answer some (but probably not
: all) of your questions.
:
: Thanks for using the Prince George's County
: Historical Society website inquiry board!
: Best wishes for the holidays!
:
: Susan G. Pearl, Historian PGCHS
:
: --Previous Message--
: Hello -
: I am trying to find some information about
: Lanham, MD. I grew up in Lanham, from 1941
: - 1962, at what is now 9112 Fourth Street,
: Lanham. I grew up with the story that our
: home had once been a Baptist Church, and, in
: fact, we found parts of what we thought
: might have been a baptismal font under the
: house. And there was a small area in the
: back of our home which never grew grass - it
: was the place where the church folks threw
: out the cinders from their fires.
:
: Supposedly this Baptist church had been
: built by the local community members who
: were from some federal administration (after
: Lincoln, but probably not directly after
: Lincoln). The story was that that
: president's cabinet moved all the way out to
: Lanham for the summer, since it was so hot
: in Washington.
:
: Another story had it that this neighborhood
: was called Hynesboro at one time. I think I
: remember that a Mr. Hynes was the one who
: "developed" the area. I think the
: story was that he'd bought our home from the
: Baptists and my dad bought it from him. He
: had put in sub-flooring and some walls, but
: my Dad did all the finishing -- put in
: beautiful wood floors, finished all the
: walls, knotty pine in the living room walls,
: fireplace in the corner of the living room,
: etc. etc. etc..
:
: I am hoping there is some history written
: somewhere to enable me to check out these
: stories. We grew up "knowing"
: that our home had been the Baptist Church
: built by the local community, which was the
: summer residence of a President's cabinet.
: Which one? I don't know, except my memory
: has it that it was "shortly after the
: Civil War." The story was that the
: entire cabinet moved all the way out to
: Lanham, then a day's ride away from DC, for
: the summer, to get away from Washington's
: heat, and that they built this church. Is
: this a true story? If so, when, and what
: administration? I don't believe it was
: immediately after the Civil War (Pres.
: Johnson's cabinet) but later -- but that's a
: guess, only.
:
: I would love it if someone would know more
: about all this, and would let me know if any
: of these stories are correct or not.
:
: The home still stands. My parents built a
: wing onto it in, I believe, 1954, so it no
: longer looks like a church.
:
: Looking forward to any help you can give me
: -- even an email address of someone who
: might know.....
:
: Thank you so much,
: Karen Hart Anthony (formerly Karen Ruth Hart
: when I lived in Lanham)
: Falmouth, Maine
:
:
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