Hyattsville, Maryland

Hyatsville, Maryland is a suburb of Washington, D.C. located northeast of the city in Prince George's County.
In the late 1940s, Jim Henson's father, Paul, an agronomist with the Department of Agriculture, was transferred from Stoneville, Mississippi to the Washington, D.C. area. New York Times ObituaryJim Henson's Designs and Doodles. The Henson family relocated to Hyattsville, MD, where Jim Henson's mother, Betty, had lived with her family before marrying Paul Henson. In Hyattsville, Henson developed many of the interests that he would pursue for the rest of his life, including puppetry and television.
Henson attended Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, where he joined the puppetry club to design sets. After graduating on June 14, 1954, Henson continued to live at his parent's Hyattsville residence throughout his college years, moving away to Bethesda, Maryland only after he and Jane Nebel wed in 1959. Henson's original puppet workshop and headquarters of Muppets, Inc. were located in his parents' house.Clark, Thomas D., telephone interview with Henson archivist Karen Falk, December 10, 2009.
==Northwestern High School==
==See also==
* Memorial to Jim Henson at David C. Driskell Community Park
==Sources==
==External links==
*Website for Northwestern High School
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