Subject: Recreation

Lakeland High School class of 1950 reunion trip to Wildwood NJ

unknown, Lucille Giles sharps, Evelyn Giles Tyner, Edward Tyner Sr, Mary Braxton, unknown

Far left seated Evelyn Jyles, Mary Day, Mary Brewer Brooks Standing Mary Hamlett, Hurley Books, Edith Ridgley, Savilly Simmons, Omega Crump, Mary Weems, Harry Braxton, ? Christine Gray Rear Robert Fields, Eliza Gray

Rhode Island Avenue at Lakeland Road

left right Viola Gross

Members of the “greatest generation” enjoy a day at Carr’s Beach in Annapolis, Maryland, during the 1940s. Carr’s Beach was a summertime retreat for African Americans from its opening in 1929 until the late 1960s. As part of the famous “Chitlin Circuit,” it attracted some of the era’s greatest African-American musical talent. The Chesapeake beaches were not racially integrated until the 1950s. (Courtesy of Pearl Lee Campbell Edwards and James Edwards III.)

Year end program for dance classes sponsored by Prince George's County Recreation Department at Lakeland Elementary School, Event held in school's multi purpose room.

Lakelander's visit beach near New York City Standing are Viola Gross, Margarete Gross Gray and Agnes Gross

Harry Braxton, Sr. and Mary Weems Braxton

Maseo Campbell, Elizabeth Campbell, unknown, unknown

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

Lakeland Park

Navahoe Street, site of community events and private functions

At Embry AME Church

At Lakeland's Tavern left to right George "Duke" Smith, George Brooks, Jr, Jenette Brooks, James Weems, Mary Weems

Three images from Lakeland Senior Citizens Club and one from beach outing

Beach day with Wilmer Gross and her daughters Delphine and Maxine

Lakeland High School class of 1950 reunion trip to Wildwood NJ

4803 Navahoe

Children at play at Sandy Point during church picnic outing

Leonard and Audrey Smith, share a table with another with another party goer, Margarete Walls during an American Legion sponsored event.

Classes held at Lakeland Elementary School by Prince Georges County Recreation Department

At Embry AME Church Labor Day Picnic

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

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

Earlene Williams, Marva McGee and friend

Meeting in Parish Hall of Embry AME Church

This Rosenwald high school building served as a junior/senior high school from 1928 until 1950, and an elementary school until 1972. Through that time it also served many of the functions of a community recreation center with the county sometimes hosting classes or summer playground programs at the facility. For a short time in the late 1960s to early 1970s there was even a swimming pool erected. For a time swimming lessons were available to the community's children. In addition to county programs the community and school staff hosted other recreation programs. At times University of Maryland affiliated groups also offered programs at the school building.

Lakeland High School class of 1950 reunion trip to Wildwood NJ

Collection of park images. The area was once the eastern area of the Lakeland community

Sunday School picnics were a summer highlight for Lakelanders. Everyone would pack a lunch and meet on the third Saturday in July at an amusement park or beach for a day of fun in the sun. The community’s two churches regularly came together for the outing. In 1962, the Embry A. M. E. Sunday School outing took place at Carr’s Beach in Annapolis, Maryland. From left to right are John Webster; Mary Weems Braxton; and Wilmer, Delphine, and Maxine Gross. (Courtesy of the Gross family.)

Basketball team sponsored by Embry AME Church with their coaches Earl Hawkins rear left in white shirt, Dwight Brooks right in white shirt and in front of him Reginald Gaskins

Duchesses social club during a formal dance at Lakeland's hall

At Lakeland Park

Sunday School picnics were a summer highlight for Lakelanders. Everyone would pack a lunch and meet on the third Saturday in July at an amusement park or beach for a day of fun in the sun. The community’s two churches regularly came together for the outing. In 1962, the Embry A. M. E. Sunday School outing took place at Carr’s Beach in Annapolis, Maryland. From left to right are John Webster; Mary Weems Braxton; and Wilmer, Delphine, and Maxine Gross. (Courtesy of the Gross family.)

Opening day for the new Lakeland Park located at the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue and Lakeland Road

Recital at Lakeland Elementary School for classes sponsored as recreation program at the school.

Flyer with the where, when and what of the Oldies but Goodies concert of October 1990.

Lakeland High School class of 1950

Lakeland High School Class of 1950 reunion trip to Wildwood NJ

top College Park Senior Citizens Club circa 1973 center in red is Etelka Lomax and under the mirror is Sylvia Stevens Bottom image unknown

On the beach near New York City. Members of the Gross/ Hughes family

Jean Gray Smith is seen in the hat center during a visit to Sandy Point Beach on a Sunday School Picnic sponsored by Embry AME Church. Smith was a New Yorker. The daughter of Lakelander Margaret Gross Gray she frequently visited her mother's home community. This day she was visiting the family members along with her own sons, Charles and Kevin.

On dedication day of Lakeland Park

Labor Day picnic on the grounds of Embry AME Church

Agnes Gross

Event at Lakeland Park Standing in a white shirt center is Mayor, Stephen Brayman