Type: Photopage 5

Rudolph Gross and George Gray

8011 Winnipeg Avenue

Rear left to right Benay Gray, Avis Matthews, Carol Jean Matthews, Denise Stovall, Front Barrett Mathews, Stephany Gray

From 1917 to 1932, the Rosenwald Fund contributed to the building of approximately 5,000 schools for African-American children in southern states. The Rosenwald program provided state-of-the-art school plans along with partial funding. Communities were required to provide cash or in-kind contributions; the remainder of the school costs was borne by local school boards. Lakeland had two such schools. Lakeland Elementary (shown here) was built in 1925, replacing the earlier school, and Lakeland High School was built in 1928.

Senior Citizens gaitherings

Pastor First Baptist Church of College Park

Exhibition section

Stacy Pitts and date

At the end of the urban renewal process, Lakeland had its first park. Developed along the south side of Lakeland Road, it includes a pavilion, basketball and tennis courts, and a playground. There are trail links to Lake Artemesia, the Paint Branch Trail, and Anacostia trails. On opening day, July 30, 1983, participants came from all parts of the community to celebrate, including members of St. Andrew Kim Catholic Church, which had purchased the historic building that once housed Lakeland High School. Members of the church’s performance group posed with other event participants. In the rear are, from left to right, State Delegate James Rosapepe, Mayor Alvin Kushner, College Park City Councilmembers Joseph Page and Anna Owens, and event organizers Thelma Lomax and Michael Middleton.

Mayor Alvin Kushner, Jim Herl, Arthur Dorman, unknown, Jim Roseapepe

Mayor Dervey Lomax with members of College Park City Council

Standing at entrance to Embry AME Church

Ladies at First Baptist Church posed for this photo during the Church's Anniversary celebration in the late 1950s. The ladies are, from left to right, (first row) Mamie McCorkle, Mary Brooks, Alice Briscoe, and Maria Dory; (second row) Lucy Gordon, Mary Johnson Weems, Rose Cager Adams, Patricia Barber, June Jackson,, Harriet Smith, Mary Rustin, unidentified person, Jeanette Brooks, and Julia Pitts; (third row) Alice Branson, Mattie Cameron, Emma Conway, and Patty Hawkins.

In this garden wedding during the summer of 1960, Marie née Brown and William Brown were married. Pictured are Marie’s sister-in-law and matron of honor Ethel Wilson Brown, and her sister Shirley, the flower girl. The bridesmaids are local young women: from left to right, DeWana Gray, Barbara Brown, Barbara Jean Walls, and Diane Weems.

During Heritage Weekend 2009 at College Park Community Center

Maseo Campbell, Elizabeth Campbell, unknown, unknown

Exhibition hall view

Studio Portrait

Lakeland : African Americans in College Park displayed in local book store

During benefit concert at Memorial Chapel, University of Maryland. This young man was a student of Ottley Music School, Hyattsville

During class of 1950 Lakeland High School reunion event in Wildwood NJ

Arlene Davis is shown in this 1950 photograph wearing early-American period clothing while working as a housekeeper at the Rossborough Inn. Built around 1803, the Inn became part of the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in 1858. For several decades, from 1958 until 2006, the Inn was the home of the university's Faculty Club.

Heritage Weekend event at College Park Community Center

The congregation of the First Baptist Church of College Park gathered for this photograph in June 2006, during the celebration of their 116th year anniversary. Their pastor, Rev. Stephen L. Wright Sr., is second from the left in the second row. His wife, Linda, is to his left. (Courtesy of Eleanor V. Holt)

Gray, the son of Louis Gray and Florence Wethers Gray, spent much of his Lakeland youth at the Navahoe Street home of his aunt Gertrude Corprew and with his cousins at their grandfather James H. Gray's home near the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He attended school in Lakeland until 1950, when his class was among the first to attend Fairmont Heights Junior-Senior High School.

After purchase by Urban Renewal Authority

Property face was on Baltimore Avenue and included several small cottages and a larger building. A note on the photo from contributor states "Housing for B&O Railroad Employees"

Embry AME Church Testimonial Dinner in honor of Pauline Gray and Arthur Brooks