March 28, 2024

Photographic Project Comes to St. Mary’s

memories

A photography project, Water Memories, will focus on people near the water and be displayed using water. Call 240-462-6573.

In It To Win It

It was the late 1960s, and a quiet deal to build an oil refinery in Piney Point, MD, on the Potomac River, jolted the Potomac River Association into action.

A $500 Permit Nets Piney Point an Oil Refinery

oil refinery

It was the late 1960s, and a quiet deal to build an oil refinery in Piney Point, MD, on the Potomac River, jolted the Potomac River Association into action.

Slackwater: Lex Park, the Inside of the Beast

When the town was full of bars and slot machines and drunken sailors … Lexington Park was the belly of a noble beast, says Charlie Hewitt.

A New Kind of Woman: Hilda Mowery

Hilda Mowery

Hilda Mowery arrived in St. Mary’s Co., MD, in 1953, left her philandering husband, decided to open a bar and nightclub and to support her children.

‘Impacts’ Played the Bases

The Impacts

The Impacts, a ‘tight’ musical group from Lexington Park, played at military bases and headlined at a Woodstock in St. Mary’s County.

The First Carver HS Band

Carver HS Band

When Harold Herndon arrived in 1960, the Carver High School Band didn’t have a single instrument.

Criminal Charges Against The Enterprise – 1957

The time was 1957, the place Lexington Park, the upstart newspaper The Enterprise was not necessarily a welcome newcomer.

Was the Thomas Johnson Bridge Worth It?

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In 1975 Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant commenced. In 1978 the Gov. Thomas Johnson Bridge opened to traffic. SoMD changed forever.

Running Moonshine: “Wasn’t Nothing to It”

Moonshiner’s son, “Nace” Mattingly, drove whiskey made in kettles across Southern Maryland to Washington DC during the 1940s.