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
“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.
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The late Sen. J. Frank Raley Jr. worked to modernize the Southern Maryland region, generate economic development, and raise the standard of living. This essay, “Old County — New County,” was first published in 1999.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Andrea Hammer, Elliott Burch, gambling, J. Frank Raley, Jack Daugherty, John Briscoe, Joseph Mattingly, Julia King, Oliver Guyther, oral history, slot machines, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Slackwater Center, Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland, Wilmer Bowles
By all accounts, the 1940s were the boomtown years in St. Mary’s, when workers by the thousands from all over poured into the county to build the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.
Category Leader Features, Lexi Leader · Tags Andrea Hammer, cedar point, Hiram Millison, Jack Daugherty, Julia King, oral history, Philip J. Bean, Slackwater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Slackwater Center
Posted by The SlackWater Center on April 12, 2016 · 2 Comments
By the 1960s, the military had come to define Lexington Park. The new boom town became the center of new consumerism in St. Mary’s County.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Andrea Hammer, Jack Daugherty, Jack Gelrud, Jack Rue, Julia A. King, Julia King, Larry Millison, Lewie Aldridge Sr., oral history, Slackwater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Slackwater Center
