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Dervey Lomax at the dedication of a fountain in his honor

Lakeland High School class of 1950

Presentation at Student report event

A friend and Jean Gross Gray on the beach near New York City

55th Ave Block 44 Lots 7,8,9,10 & 11 Urban Renewal Parcel 19-8

Navahoe Street

From Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, Franklin Library Special Collections

Concert held at Memorial Chapel, University of Maryland

Site of Spellman House

On the left is the Urban Renewal office

Lake Artemesia was initially dug in the mid-nineteenth century by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to retrieve gravel for use as ballast. It was later developed for recreational use by Edwin A. Newman in the 1890s. The lake was a center of recreation for the community, with swimming and fishing in summer and skating in winter. The lake was also the site of breeding ponds for the Baltimore Goldfish Company and later the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries.

Agnes Gross and Pauline Gray

City council portrait

Mary Ann Campbell has garter placed in preparation for her wedding. They are in the bride's home on Navahoe Street

This is the summary sheet of a property appraisal for the land and home owned by William and Beatrice Thomas at 4806 Lakeland Road. The appraisal was generated during the urban renewal process to establish the amount the government offered the property owner as compensation for the "taking" of their home. William and Beatrice Thomas 4806 Lakeland Rd Project Parcel 24-16 Block 12 Lot 11

US Army

Looking across lawn toward 54th Avenue

The "M" in the traffic circle on Campus Drive has been a landmark on the University of Maryland campus since the 1970s. Its recognition factor is second only to the University Chapel. James Adams of Lakeland was a member of the university's grounds crew for 37 years and was instrumental in the installation of this planting.

Lakeland’s first kindergarten classes were taught during the 1930s by Ruth Johnson Taylor Lancaster. Kindergarten was then discontinued at the school, until the 1960s. Here, the 1965-66 kindergarten class poses during the school’s May Day celebration. (Courtesy of the Gross family.)

Embry senior usher board 1962

Many departments at the University of Maryland provided stable employment for Lakelanders. Pictured here are, left to right, Pauline Gray and Etelka Lomax preparing meals in the kitchen at the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. Other Lakeland residents, including Saxoline Campbell, Dorothy Holman, and Hazel Thomas, also were employed as cooks and kitchen-service staff for sorority and fraternity houses.

At College Park Community Center Band Performance

City of College Park and University of Maryland

Exhibit Panel

Charles Hamlett and his first wife Eva in 1930. He moved to Lakeland from New Jersey. Eva was the daughter of two of Lakeland's earliest African American residents, John and Maggie Brooks. The house was demolished during urban renewal.

Land prepared for construction of townhomes

Urban Renewal Document Signing by Mayor Dervey Lomax another copy of this image can be found in this collection donated by the City of College Park

First Baptist Church Choir during Heritage Weekend Sunday service at Washington Brazilian SDA Church the site of Lakeland High School

Front Harry Braxton, Billy Matthews, Rear Clarence Gray, Jessy, al, Bernard brooks, George Henry

Group with Rev Preston Britton 1955-56. Usher Day Macedonia A.M.E. Church preached by Rev Britton.

Images of the park located at the corner or of Rhode Island Avenue and Lakeland Road