Lexington Park began as a single housing project, named for the Lexington, the Navy’s first really big aircraft carrier. The ship went down in 1942, before the housing project was completed, and in 2018 was found two miles deep on the floor of the Pacific.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
In 1942, the US government, by its right of eminent domain, confiscated a large area of the Eighth District of St. Mary’s County, MD, to be used by the US Navy as a test facility for aircraft. The government bought 6,412 acres for $712,287 consisting of 113 land tracts and home to 230 families. Somewhere within that 6,412 acres was Pearson — but where exactly?
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Pearson, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
Many residents in the north of St. Mary’s County assumed Pax River was a temporary, war-time arrangement, but Jack Daugherty, a Marine pilot stationed at the Pax at the end of the war, and other ex-Navy personnel thought otherwise, and decided to stay.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jack Daugherty, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Keith Buzby, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer, Walter Dorsey
A lot more than naval aviation was going on around Southern Maryland during World War II. Bob Tourville of the Pax River Naval Air Museum has photos and footage to prove it — flying boats, drones from the 1940s, and blimps retrieving torpedoes in the Potomac River.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
Nazir S. Terrell wins a $1,000 scholarship from the Southern Mary land chapter of AFCEA. Mr. Terrell plans to attend Tuskegee University.
St. Mary’s County Historical Society and the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum bring “Pax River’s Forgotten Cold War Warriors” to video to inaugurate the society’s Historically Speaking series.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Amy Davis, Barbara Ives, Bob Tourville, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Historically Speaking, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Pax River naval Air Museum, Pete Butt, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
St Mary’s County Historical Society and the Lexington Park Lilbrary are hosting the traveling exhibit, Early Women of Architecture in Maryland through March 1; Exhibit curator Jillian Storms to speak March 1.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Christine Senese, Cremona Estate, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Gertrude Sawyer, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, Jillian Storms, John Houser, Jubilee Farm, Lexington Park Library, Michael Blackwell, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Rose Greely, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Art Council, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary's County Libraries, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer, Tudor Hall
“Baseball has long been a staple of entertainment and recreation in St. Mary’s County,” finds Historical Society writer Pat Woodburn, but to get the sport into the hands of youth took the US Navy and Lexington Park Lions.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Connetti, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Fred H. Hendricks, Garners, Gelrud, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jack Daugherty, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Lexington Park Lions, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Norris, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Raley's, Russells, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer, Tiburzi, Yocklovich, Zedick
With a theme of fostering relationships, College of Southern Maryland’s Nonprofit Institute is planning its eighth annual conference for 8 am to 1:30 pm Feb. 22, 2018, at the La Plata Campus in Center for Business and Industry.
Category Nonprofit News · Tags Barbara Ives, Bob Carpenter, Bonnie Green, College of Southern Maryland, college-southern-maryland, CSM, CSM Nonprofit Institute, Earle Knapp, Gene Townsend, Linda Howard, Lynette Entzian, Sandy Washington, Talisha Dunn-Square, The Patuxent Partnership, Theresa Johnson
As Dr. Richard Fleming retires as vice president and dean of the Prince Frederick Campus of the College of Southern Maryland, Barbara Ives is serving in the position in the interim. Dr. Fleming has served nearly nine years at the campus, and his retirement was effective in December.
