Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-17
| RlNCE GEORGES county is a
name that spells home to a
great number Of Warrington

great number of Warrington
people. 1t is very easy to pro-
aounce prince Georges" in a way to
indicate that one holds the old county
IN anectionate regard and remem-
lrancs. 1t 10 very probably true that
Q greater number Of the inhabitants
o. Washington were born in Prince
Georges county than in any other
county in the United States, and
very large percentage Of native-born
Washing tonians are descended from
Prince Georges families. A consider
ahls portion Of tWashington's indus
trial population sleeps in Prince
Georges county, and . large part Of
the food which sustAins Washington
is produced in that county.
Nearly everybody in Washington
who came from Prince Georges coun-
~, or whose father or mother, grand
father or grandmother came from that
old and historic county, feels strong
sense Of attachment to it. The Ram
bier Is glad to admit that for these
and other endearing reasons old
Prince Georges holds a happy and
sunny place in his thoughts. He
knows just as well as you that the
people Of Montgomery. Howard, Fred
erick, Calvert, Anne Arundel, Charles
and ST. Marys, Loudoun, Fairfax,
Alexandria. Prince William. King
George. Stafford, Westmoreland and
Northumberland love their old home
counties and feel as proud of them as
Prince Georges people feel of theirs.
Such a sentiment is natural with peo-
pie of good heart and feeling. The
scenes of ones youth take on poetic
glamour and radiance that glow
brighter the longer and the farther
our separation from them.
When we lived among the hills, the
woods and fields they seemed to US
TO be very ordinary bits of landscape,
but as we look back at those places
after a lapse of years they come be-
fore the minds eye as the most beau
tiful in the world. When we lived
there many of the people seemed to
us very commonplace, but as we
look back to those old folk of other
times we know that, though they may
have been plain and humble. they were
among the best Of people. When we
think Of their graves in the quiet lit
tie churchyard or the old-fashioned,
tangled and neglected family burying
ground we feel sense of deep regret
that we did not appreciate them at the
full measure OF their worth. And
there is a lesson in this. 1t is that
We should be kinder, more tolerant and
more gentle toward the people with
whom we find fault now.
"A long time ago. and so long ago
that everybody has forgotten 1t now,
the Rambler wrote a series of historic
and statistical stories on the neighbor
counties of Washington. and he de-
scribed the geographical lines of
Prince Georges. Many Neutrality-suspicious.
know very little about that county.
The northern and eastern bound
AIRY Of Prince Georges is the Patuxent
river. The county line follows the
windings Of that river from a point
three miles northwest Of Laurel to the
point where Swanson creek flows into
the Patuxent. The length Of that line
IL approximately forty-ive miles.
Along two-thirds of that distance the
Patuxent is a small, but picturesque,
stream. but along the lower third Of
the county 1t is majestic river,
ranging in width from half a mile to
two miles. The mouth Of Swanson
creek is half a mile wide, and II you
measure from Chalk point on the north
side to Point Judith on the south aide
II is q mile. The county adjoining
Prince Georges on the north is How
ard.
The adjoining county on the east Is
Anne Arundel. and on the southeast is
Calvert county. The south boundary
Of the county extends in an irregu-
lar course from the Patuxent to the
Potomac and the approximate length
of that line is thirty-fve miles Be-
ginning in the middle of the Patuxent
river of the mouth of Swanson creek,
It follows the creek westerly for four
miles, turns north for four miles, then
travels westwardly in line for about
six miles to the head Of Mattawoman
creek and follows that creek west