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Saturday at College Park Community Center during Heritage Weekend

Exhibition case

Elizabeth Dent (friend from Brentwood). Rosie Gross and Margarete Gross Gray

Margaret Gross Gray and her mother's sister Mary Hughes Ford

During Sunday service of Heritage Weekend at First Baptist Church of College Park

George Isaac Walls moved to Lakeland from Westmoreland County, VA at the turn of the 20th century, ca. 1900. He married Hattie Dyce on November 18, 1904 at Embry AME Chapel, one of the first marriage services held there. The house they built in 1911 on Navahoe street still stands today. This image of him dates to 1915. He died in 1916. He was the father of George, John, Anderson, and Mary Weems and related to the Giles and Randall families. Many direct descendants through Anderson and Mary presently reside in Lakeland.

Harry M. Braxton, his wife, Mary, their children, and his mother, Emma Harrison, shared a home in the Lakeland community. Harry Braxton was head of the local Human Relations Council, a racially integrated social change organization. He was also director of public relations for the Prince George’s County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Family members were deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement and all aspects of community life. One Sunday morning when Braxton’s wife and mother were alone at home while Braxton attended church services, two youths from a nearby white community fired forty-four bullets into the family’s home. (Photograph (c) 2008 Joanne M. Braxton)

Photographed in 1965, Luke Gray had a favorite sitting spot by Pierce Avenue. Often his friends George Falls and Willie Laney would join him.

Collection of school photos.

Edwards house twenty years after #16 1966 without car.

Sandidge was a leader in the Lakeland community for many years. She served as president of the Lakeland Civic Association and as a deaconess of First Baptist Church. With the implementation of the Lakeland Urban Renewal Project, the Sandidge family home was slated for demolition. Sandidge, her husband Enoch, and their family moved out of the community. Below, the Sandidge family gathered during the 1975 banquet. The children standing in front are Marcus Waddy and Trina Thompson. Standing left to right are (second row) Gela Portee, Jennie Thompson, Connie Sandidge, Hattie Sandidge, Enoch Sandidge, Wiley Portee, and Myra Wood; (third row) Jean Sandidge, Cheryl Thompson, Bonita Waddy, Ronald Brooks, Gela Sandidge Brooks, and Danny Thompson.

On the 1963 Labor Day Embry AME Church picnic, there was the added attraction of pony rides in addition to the usual draws of homecooked food and good company.

Parcel 19-7 Block 44 East 1/2 lot 6 Joseph A. & Eleanor M. Galvagna

Face painting artist does a design on the arm of a visitor during Heritage Weekend at College Park Community Center

The Dory family home. It was moved in the early 1900s from College Avenue in Old Town College Park to its current location on Navahoe Street. In the 1940s, they were the first family on the street to have a telephone, and they took calls for the whole neighborhood.

Photo of the 1964 wedding of Pearl Lee Campbell to James Edwards III at Embry AME Church. When the church sanctuary was renovated in the 1980s, the Edwardses saved a stained glass window and hired an artist to use some of the glass to frame their marriage certificate to form a unique keepsake.

8121 54th Avenue Block 44 Lots 2 and 3 Gilbert Thomas

At dedication of James Adams Park

Event at College Park Community Center

age 2

Dorothy Stewart (left), daughter of Nellie Stewart owner of Stewart's Tavern/Four Brothers Tavern is shown here with her cousin Sarah Jackson around 1955. (photo courtesy of Leonard Smith).

Lakelander yearbook page

Earlene Williams, Marva McGee and friend

5402 Cleveland Ave Carl E. Cager, et al

At Davis Hall facility

Banquet in honor of community leader Hattie Sandidge. Held at Paint Branch School on Pierce Ave in 1975.

4800 Lakeland Rd West 69 ft. of Lot 10 in Block 12 Harold W. & Julia M. Pitts