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Firehook coffee and chocolate croissant… not so great at taking selfies, but Rumi was with me, so she knows this is legit.
Headed out to Old Greenbelt, which has lots of New Deal sites. Tonight I visited Lenore Thomas, a mother and child statue. She was a WPA sculptor. She was in her 20s when she created this piece in 1939.
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Charles Benedict Calvert owned Riverdale Plantation, which spanned over 2,000 acres, which includes College Park and some parts of the University of Maryland Campus. In 1856 he founded the Maryland Agricultural College (MAC). While Calvert owned slaves, he was pro-union.
In April 1864, General Ambrose E. Burnside and 6,000 soldiers of the Union’s Ninth Army Corps camped on the MAC campus. The troops were en route to reinforce General Ulysses S. Grant’s forces in Virginia.
I went to a New Deal site – The Rossborough Inn at University of MD and I found that Charles Benedict Calvert used the building as a farm house, he later donated it to the University. In 1864, the Inn was a faculty residence when, during the Civil War, and Confederate Army General Bradley T. Johnson (of Frederick, Maryland) and his cavalry brigade occupied the university grounds, utilizing the building as his headquarters.
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=66433
When I was at GW, a group of student leaders met w student leaders from UMCP at Rossborough Inn. I didn’t know that it was the oldest building on campus, built in 1798 with improvements in 1938 from a WPA grant.
Historygeek already featured this building, so i tried to get a closer view.
