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4904 Navahoe St Thomas & Elsie Moody

In the 1940s, Stewart’s Tavern opened in Nellie Stewart’s home on western Navahoe Street. In the 1950s, her son Henry Conway, a brick mason, and some of his friends built a separate structure next door for the establishment. They renamed it Four Brothers Tavern. When the business was sold to Leonard Smith in the mid-1960s, it became known as Lakeland Tavern. The building was razed in the 1970s, not long after this photograph was taken, to make way for Lakeland’s federally funded urban renewal project.

Edward Jefferson and Amy Brooks Potts (seated, middle) are pictured with their children. Seated from left to right are Beverly, Patricia, Iris, and Sylvia. The children standing are, from left to right, Anthony, Edward, Shirley, LaVerda, William, and Gerald. Wallace was not present for this photograph, which was taken at the Potts family home on Navahoe Street circa 1968. Potts was a granddaughter of Samuel and Georgianna Stewart, founders of Embry A.M.E. Church.

This motel had its front along Baltimore Avenue and was part of the Lakeland subdivision. It was not part of the Lakeland community as for much of its history the establishment did not serve African Americans

Teas were a favorite social activity for the ladies of Lakeland. These events were sometimes held in the churches as fundraising activities, but most often they were social occasions in homes. Each hostess took great pride in her ability to set a fine table. Pictured here is one such gathering at the home of George Henry and Agnes Gross. Their guests are, left to right, Maria Lomax Dory, Fannie Williams, Annabelle Stroud, Ellen Lomax Briscoe, and Ellen Randall Gray.

8111 54th Avenue Walter and Mildred Lassick Project Parcel 19-4 Block 44 Lot 4

8121 54th Avenue Block 44 Lots 2 and 3

4908 Navahoe St Grace & Vardell Nesbitt Urban Renewal Parcel 20-5 Block 16 w45'. Lot 6

George and Jeanette Brooks built this house in 1955 on Lakeland Road. It was a new and modern home for a growing family. They lived here for only about twenty years, as the house fell victim in the late 1970s to the urban renewal project in the community.

The intersection of Rhode Island Avenue, Lakeland Road, and Navahoe Street was the hub of Lakeland. Electric streetcars connected the community with the District of Columbia from 1895 until 1962. Mack’s Market, Black’s Store, the Elks Home, Lakeland Hall, and Miss Waller’s Beauty parlor were located near the streetcar stop. Black’s Store, shown here circa 1969, was owned by Charles Black. It had four apartments, a dry cleaners, and a beauty parlor, along with a store that sold groceries and snacks. With a lunch counter and juke box, the establishment became a popular place for teens to gather, eat, dance, and enjoy being together.

4704 Lakeland Rd Block 19 w 50" of lot 11 Urban Renewal Parcel 23-9 J. Victor Dickey

5108 Pierce Avenue

8005 48th Ave.-Manton L. & Dalphine A. Chapman

4808 Lakeland Rd, Floyd & Azalian Ross Block 12 Lot 12. Project Parcel 24-7

8111 54th Ave Walter & Mildred Lassick Project Parcel 19-4 Block 44 Lot 4

4904 Navahoe Street Thomas and Elsie Moody

Lakeland Rd

Demolition Contract #4

4908 Navahoe Street Grace & Vardell C. Nesbitt Block 16 E. 45' of lot 7 & 7 &E 10' of lot 6 Project Parcel 20-5

In the 1940s and 1950s much of the organized entertainment in Lakeland was provided by social clubs. The Counts’ escorts are, left to right (first row), Evelyn Giles Tyner, Mary Weems Braxton, Mary Walls Weems, Bernice Lancaster Walls, Julia Mack Carroll, Mary Douglas Tolson, and Dorothy Mack Allen; (second row) Pearl Brooks Briscoe, Gertrude Walls Corprew, Florence Wethers, Mary Brooks Brewer, and Elizabeth Mack.

8121 54th Ave Gilbert Thomas Lot 2, Block 44, Parcel 19-3

Navahoe Street and 48th Ave Block 17, Lots A7, F7,A8,F8, C6,F6 National Mobile Village Project Parcel 21-1

Navahoe Street, 48th Ave & Melbourne Pl William A. Albaugh Block 18 Lots 14 thru 21 Project Parcel 22-1

4904 Navahoe St Block 16 Part of lot 6, Parcel 20-7 Thomas & Elsie Moody

J. Chesley Mack, sometimes referred to as the unofficial mayor of Lakeland, operated Mack’s Market on Rhode Island Avenue. It was a general store with an ice cream counter and billiard parlor on the main floor, and rental apartments on the second floor. Mack also worked as a chef at the University of Maryland and served as Lakeland’s City Council representative from 1945 until 1957.

Joanne and Harry Braxton, Jr at Christmas in their Cleveland Ave Home,

Mack's Market after a fire

54th Avenue

Demolition Contract CPURR- 11 4802 Lakeland Rd 4812 Lakeland Rd

4901 Navahoe Street Urban Renewal Parcel 24 Leonard Smith

Leonard Smith & Mamie McCorkle BPOE Lodge 514 8200 Rhode Island Av Project No 20-3 Block 16 Lot 8 and 1/2 of Lot 9 Value Sheet

4900 Lakeland Rd West Part of Lot 14 except west 12 ft next to 13 in Block 12 Urban Renewal Parcel 20B in block 24

James Walter Edwards Jr. moved his family into this home on Albany Avenue, east of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks, in 1940. After the Christmas holiday that year, Edwards planted the Christmas tree used in his living room, along with one used in a friend’s celebration. These transplanted trees dwarf the Edwards’ house in this 1960s photograph. The home was demolished in the mid-1970s as part of the urban renewal project.

View toward the edge of Lakeland toward the boarder with Berwyn Heights showing industrial properties

Agnes and George Henry Gross were married in a quiet ceremony at the home of her sister Ira, in Baltimore, Maryland. The couple chose to make a festive occasion of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Family and friends were invited to the Gross residence on Cloud Avenue on April 8, 1950, for a reception. Here the Grosses view their anniversary gifts.

4714 Navahoe St. John & Martha M. Watkins Block 17 Lots A6, B6, G6 & H6 Project Parcel 21-2

4900 Navahoe St Grace & George Weber Block 16 Lot 5 (W.1/2) Parcel 20-9

5108 Pierce Ave Urban Renewal Parcel 18 Block 16 FEMA Trailer - Home on site was destroyed by storm. Also shows Pierce Ave after construction of Paint Branch Elementary.