Historical Markers and War Memorials in Landover, Maryland
Upper Marlboro is the county seat for Prince George's County
Landover is in Prince George's County
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Built 1795 by Benjamin Stoddert first Secretary of the Navy 1798-1801. A Revolutionary War Major. Stoddert was born 1751 in Charles County and died here December 18, 1813. Land originally granted to Colonel Ninian Beall of Georgetown. — — Map (db m95813) HM
Near Sheriff Road at Harvey Drive, on the right when traveling east.
The farm, then comprised of about three hundred acres, was purchased from the Wilson Family by The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1995. Eighty acres were preserved for the development of the Prince George's Sports & . . . — — Map (db m150953) HM
Built in 1928, Highland Park was the second high school for African Americans in Prince George's County, Maryland. It was one of 23 "Rosenwald Schools" constructed in Prince George’s County with financial assistance from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, . . . — — Map (db m40025) HM
Near Sheriff Road at Harvey Drive, on the right when traveling east.
On this site stood the Wilson family homestead, which was built in the early 1900s after an earlier family home was destroyed by fire. It was the home of Georgianna Cornelia Wallis and Joseph Percy Wilson, the grandparents of the last generation of . . . — — Map (db m202764) HM
Near Sheriff Road west of Harvey Drive, on the left when traveling west.
Former Prince George's County Council member Marvin F. Wilson, representing District 5, gained a reputation early on as a staunch supporter of the Washington Redskins' relocation to Prince George's County. Mr. Wilson had a vision that this . . . — — Map (db m199005) HM
On Central Avenue (State Road 214) 0.2 miles west of Capitol Beltway (Interstate 95/495), on the right when traveling west.
Farming community established after the Civil War by former slaves from local tobacco plantations. Ridgley Methodist Episcopal Church was first built in the late 1870s on land deeded to trustees Rev. Lewis Ridgley, Joseph Beal, and Richard Cook in . . . — — Map (db m89553) HM
Near Cedarwood Court, 0.2 miles south of Sheriff Road, on the right when traveling south.
This memorial is dedicated
in sincere tribute to the living and dead whose valiant efforts and unselfish sacrifices have made America great. God grant that the liberty of humanity won only by brave souls vigilantly guarded shall live on more . . . — — Map (db m150954) WM