The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-28
WASHINGTON BRANCH.
SOME ATTRACTIVE LOCATIONS FOR
SUBURBAN HOMES.
The Remarkable Growth of This Section
i'm the Last Few Years--The New Towns
That Have Sprung UP and the Won
derful Improvement of the Older Ones.


derfui Improvement of the Older Ones.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Wash
ington Branch, by offering every facility
frequent trains, rapid travel, and accommo-
dations to freight and to passengers-within
the last ten years has been the means of
building up beautiful towns and suburban
homes, adding vastly to the wealth of Prince
Georges and Montgomery counties, Md, ex-
tending as far north as Laurel in the former
county and to Boyd's station In the latter
Within few years one could ride from
Washington to Laurel and observe q few
scattering country homes, miles apart and
but dozen passengers would board train
from Laurel to the city. Now every train,
and there are fifteen or sixteen accommoda-
ton trains each way daily, is filled comforta-
bly, and hundreds of handsome homes are to
be seen between the numerous towns.
Commencing, going north, at Highland sta
ton, we find handsome subdivision managed
by the Highland Club. The subdivision was
the battle-ground of the American army in
August, 1914, when 500 American sons
bit the dust, and overlooks the famous
dueling grounds just south OF the pike
at the culvert crossing. The centre
of this tract is o beautiful grove Of original
forest oaks of acres, in which is a handsome
and conveniently fitted up clubhouse, the
former home of DIR. Hanson Penn. For some
reason not we'll understood by the public this
subdivision is kept out of the market. Imme-
diately opposite the station, hemmed in by the
railroad and Glenwood Road, is the Highland
subdivision, owned by the Holiday Company,
under the exclusive management of Duckett
& Ford, of CIT F street northwest, which is
beautifully laid out from the station to Hyatts-
vile and is known as the Highland Hyatts-
vile subdivision. The lots are cheaper here
than in the older subdivisions of Hyattsville
by from 500 to 5000 u lot. A great many lots
have been sold and quite number of pretty
cottages have been erected and are occupied.
The Penn subdivision, between the railroad
and the pretty summer home of one of Wash
ington's popular lumber merchants, Mr.. w.
w. Mccullough, extending from the Glenwood
Road on the north to the Mccullough
property on the south, was subdivided
and every lot sold in less than one sum-
mer. Ithas high commanding view. On
the east of the station and Immediately
opposite the Holiday Company's tract is the
property of Mr.. Gilbert Mayer formerly the
residence of Mr. Henry Carlton. Mr.. Mayer is
u
some 400 yards from the station, surrounded
by pine trees and abundantly supplied with
pure, fresh running water. 1t will be q
beautiful sheet of water for either rowing,
fishing. or bathing. This community will
be greatly enhanced in value by his
energy and capital. Old Bladensburg
lay, opposite Mr.. Mayer, and when you talk
of water the old town smiles, for with the
element to the inner man, this place goes
frequently into liquidation. But notwith-
standing the hits it gets it can boast of his
tory truly interesting. It's early Importance
in the commerce of county and State, its
present promise and beautiful elevations
overlooking the whole of this city, its spa
waters and proximity to the Baltimore and
Ohio and Baltimore and Potomac railroads,
bid fair to make this the first and most en-
during of all neighboring towns.
A few years past there stood in Hyattsville,
then called Bladensburg, monument of en-
terprse and business tact, the late G. G.
Hyatt, who as ticket agent, freight agent
grocer, commission merchant collector, etc.
owned and ran the town. Within ten years
has all this scene gone. Now real towI
confronts us, with population Of 800, foul
or HVe SCHOOLS, Eplbcopal, CaJnOuc, Memo
dist, and Presbyterian churches, stores, ply
.scians, and the general makeup of well
equipped municipality. OF all the towns
along the line of the Baltimore and Ohit
Railroad this is the most progressive, and bid
fair to outstrip It's older competit ors in th
race for prominence, Its growth In the las
decade has been almost phenomenal-from
population of 2S5 to 500.
improvements are seen on all sides
Through the efforts of one of Its most activ
and progressive citizens, Mr.. l.. ID. Wine,
handsome Masonic hall is about to be erected
A number of creditable buildings are also un
der course of erection. Among the latte
may be mentioned those OF Messrs. Ladson
Gray, Dunning, Tice, Aman, Mcneil, Acker
Cook, Curry, Ryan, and Others, besides sew
eral commodious dwellings recently con
structed by Mr. Il. K Elliott
On the west of Hyattsville is the subdivision
home of r. P. Evans, in which some si
pretty cottages have been built, and opposit
is tract of seVenty-hY acres recently bough
of Duckett & Ford by T. V. Powderly, pres
dent of the Knights of Labor, and John "