Type: Photopage 29

Honoring Hattie Sandidge

Located in the western section of Lakeland, the Elks Home, seen here circa 1965, was owned and operated by the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, an organization created in 1899 in answer to the exclusion of African Americans from the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The group was a social and charitable fraternal organization. To raise funds, it hosted regular events that were open to those living in Lakeland and the surrounding communities. Most fondly remembered are the annual carnivals held on the grounds of the building, and the parades through the streets of Lakeland.

Baltimore Boulevard & Navahoe Street Motel owned by Buddy Lutz

During Teen Night of Heritage Weekend at College Park Community Center

Delivering sermon during Heritage Weekend Sunday Service at Washington Brazilian SDA Church, Lakeland High School site

George G. Waters. teacher of Lucy Randall at Lakeland School

Jacqueline, Janet and Agnes Randall at wedding

At College Park boundary sign

For more than thirty years the first school attended by most Lakelanders was Lakeland Elementary School on Winnipeg Street. It had two classrooms heated by a potbelly stove, and an outhouse in the rear. In 1944 the primary class, grades one through three, were taught by Margaret Wills in one classroom; and the upper class, grades four through six, were taught by Anita P. Smith in the second classroom. Lakelander Bessie Mack often worked as a substitute teacher at the school. (

Dervey Lomax far left

During the period of this image the building featured a belfry with a bell. The church sexton, Mr. James Clemons lived just across Lakeland Road and would arrive early for Sunday services to ring that bell.

Eastern Lakeland

At First Baptist Church

Roads in Lakeland were quite different than those in the rest of the city

Assorted images including They are from left to right Louise Smith, Ethel and her husband "Mr. Lock" Dory in 1939, Cora Gross circa 1925 and a wedding picture of Phillip "Billy" Matthews and Vera Johnson

collection of school photos Lakeland youth (Source: master photo log.xls)

For Lakeland Community Heritage Project at University of Maryland's Memorial Chapel

Embry AME Church Choir There is another copy of this image in the archive from another collector

Speaker during event honoring Pauline Gray and Arthur Brooks

Images from opening of Lakeland Park

Participating in community worship service on grounds of First Baptist Church on Sunday morning during Lakeland Heritage Weekend

Heritage Saturday Parade

Dessie Randall Thomas and friend attend a parade in downtown Washington DC

Presentation at University of Maryland for employee group

Lakeland Ditch

Wedding of William Sharps and Lucille Giles

Lakeland girls Ruby Briscoe and Gladys Conley jitterbug on a Newark, New Jersey, street in the 1940s. They were like many others who migrated to industrial cities for the plentiful jobs that were available during World War II. Briscoe, later Ruby Tynes, made New Jersey her home. Conley returned to Maryland and was a school teacher in St. Mary’s County. Both retained lifelong ties to their family and friends in Lakeland. (Courtesy of the Gray family.)

Screening and discussion of project report from research on education in Lakeland done by Lakeland Community Heritage Project and University of Maryland American Studies Department, Dr. Mary C. Sies

Mayor Anna Owens with City Council Maxine Gross is in the first row second from left

Several Lakeland homes were burned as training exercises before being demolished to make way for urban redevelopment. this image shows spectators gathered with refreshments to witness one of the burnings.

Mayor making presentation to James Claiborne in honor of his retirement.