Laurel, Maryland Laurel, Maryland City of Laurel Flag of Laurel, Maryland Flag Coat of arms of Laurel, Maryland Location of Laurel in Prince George's County and Maryland Location of Laurel in Prince George's County and Maryland Laurel is positioned in Maryland Laurel - Laurel Laurel is a town/city in northern Prince George's County, Maryland, in the United States, positioned midway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore on the banks of the Patuxent River. Founded as a foundry town in the early 19th century, the arrival of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1835 period small-town trade and later enabled the town/city to turn into an early commuter town for Washington and Baltimore workers.
The Department of Defense is a prominent existence in the Laurel region today, with the Fort Meade Army base, the National Security Agency, and Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory all positioned nearby.
Laurel Park, a thoroughbred horse racetrack, is positioned just outside town/city limits.
To 8,500 B.C., Laurel's climate warmed and changed from a Spruce forest to a hardwood forest.
In the Late Archaic reconstructionfrom 4,000 to 1,000 B.C., Laurel would have been veiled primarily with an Oak and Hickory forest. Laurel was formed from territory on the fall line of the Patuxent River patented by the Snowden family in 1658 as part of the 12,250-acre New Birmingham plantation, which encompassed the later Montpelier. The Washington Turnpike Road Company assembled Route 1 between 1796 and 1812, creating a primary North-South territory route with George Washington as a regular traveler.
Tiffany and the foundry period greatly with the addition of the Avondale Mill building in 1844. Mill president Horace Capron with his partners assembled housing for close to 300 workers, and a bigger cotton mill. Cotton duck from the foundry was shipped down what would turn into Laurel's Main Street, then by rail to Baltimore. A substantial dam was assembled in 1850. As a foundry town, Laurel was somewhat unusual in Prince George's County and was surrounded by agricultural endeavors. The improve was originally known as "Laurel Factory" when Edward Snowden became the first postmaster in 1837 and was a true business town, with a school and shops, and many of the foundry workers' homes owned until the 1860s by the company. During the 1840s, three historic churches in the improve the Methodist Est.
During the Civil War, Laurel Factory, like much of Maryland, was a divided community, but with many Southern sympathizers.
Laurel evolved into an early suburban town.
In 1870, the Patuxent Bank of Laurel was established on the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue. In 1874 a delegation was sent to Annapolis to introduce legislation to make Laurel its own county of 10,000 inhabitants with territory from Prince George's, Howard, and Anne Arundel counties. In 1879 Laurel Academy of Music was assembled along Route 1.
Weems tested an unmanned electric train on a two-mile banked circular track near Laurel Station.
The resulting losses inspired accomplishments to bring water and fire apparatus to the town. The town was hit again by the great Laurel fire of December 14, 1899, when a twelve-building fire finished the Laurel Presbyterian Church (known then as Presbyterian Church at Laurel). Proposed in 1897, Laurel's seven-term mayor Edward Phelps succeeded in constructing the first high school in Prince George's County in 1899, despite a several financial obstacles, by personally assuming the financial risks in doing so.
In 1902, the City and Suburban Railway with the City and Suburban and Washington, Berwyn, and Laurel stockyards started single line electric street car service. A head-on train wreck in Laurel, July 31, 1922 The Laurel Sanitarium was assembled in 1905 on a 163-acre (0.66 km2) farm that comprised what is now Laurel Lakes.
Laurel Park Racecourse, a thoroughbred racetrack, opened in 1911 and remains in operation.
In the book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laurel is mentioned a several times as an meaningful horse racing venue.
Laurel also hosted a horse trotter (harness racing) track titled Freestate Raceway from 1948 to 1990; it was positioned in Howard County on the west side of US Route 1, south of Savage in an region that now includes a Car - Max dealership, Weis supermarket, and a strip mall.
In February 1913, Laurel was a stopping point in the Suffrage hike led by Rosalie Gardiner Jones.
Board track racing at Laurel, July 11, 1925 Board track racing came to Laurel in 1925 when a 1.125-mile (1.811 km) wood oval track was assembled by Jack Prince and featured 48-degree banked turns.
In 1931, "Angy Gerrin" assembled a 7,000-seat amphitheater next to the Duvall Farm between Laurel Park and Route One for an outside boxing venue.
Wasting little time, the Prince Georges Brewing Company prepared a $500,000 brewery on 100 acres next to Laurel Park, but did not follow through. In 1954, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory assembled its ground west of Laurel in Howard County, using a Laurel address. By 1960, Laurel anticipated massive expansion from Fort Meade and NSA.
City Planner Harry Susini anticipated the National Capitol Planning Commission would use clustered evolution to prevent tightly massed populace in Laurel by the year 2000. Laurel's Route 1 commercial landmark for over 50 years, a neon Giant Food sign The situation peaked in Laurel when four youths, affiliated with the KKK, burned a home in Laurel Grove in 1967, prompting protests and police blockades. Due to cross-burning incidents, a Ku Klux Klan march, and a several suspicious fires, police barricades were erected to prevent white inhabitants from entering "The Grove" at evening.
On May 15, 1972, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, running for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, was campaigning at a rally in the parking lot of Laurel Shopping Center, near what is today a Bank of America branch, when he was shot and paralyzed by Arthur Bremer, a disturbed, out-of-work janitor (see An Assassin's Diary).
On June 22, 1972, Laurel was impacted severely by Hurricane Agnes, which caused the greatest flooding ever recorded in Maryland. Several bridges were finished and the close-by T.
In 1982, developer Kingdon Gould III bought 3,539 acres of Laurel property (539 in North Laurel) in two deals for $15 million.
The biggest parcel lies between Laurel and Beltsville to be advanced under the name Konterra, buoyed by access to primary highways via the assembly of Maryland Route 200.[full citation needed] A former 1840s foundry workers' home on the northeast corner of 9th and Main Streets was renovated and opened as the Laurel Museum on May 1, 1996.
On September 24, 2001, a tornado passed through Laurel and left F3 property damage, including momentous roof damage to the Laurel High School and the historic Harrison-Beard building. Prior to the September 11, 2001, attacks, a several of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 (which crashed into the Pentagon) stayed at various motels in the Laurel area, including the Budget Host Valencia and Pin-Del motels in Howard County just north of the town/city limits. The wing of the Valencia where they stayed was demolished, and a new Sleep Inn was constructed on the ground, which opened in April 2007.
On August 29, 2005, Laurel adopted Laurel, Mississippi, as a sister town/city to help with Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery. In the two years following adoption, "the government, businesses and inhabitants of Laurel, Md.
Raised more than $20,000 for Laurel, Miss." The following is a list of historic sites in Laurel and vicinity identified by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and / or National Register of Historic Places: 1 Avondale Mill (1844 1991) Avondale Mill Site Laurel MD Jan 11.JPG 21 Avondale St.
3 Laurel High School (original building) / Phelps Community Center Laurel High School Dec 08.JPG 700 block of Montgomery St n/a Added to the National Register of Historic Places, June 27, 1979 4 Laurel Railroad Station Laurel Railroad Station West Side Dec 08.jpg E.
S of Laurel on MD 197 62-006 Added to the National Register of Historic Places, April 17, 1970 7 Snow Hill Snow Hill 1936.jpg S of Laurel off MD 197 62-004 Added to the National Register of Historic Places, August 13, 1974 Laurel is positioned at 39 5 45 N 76 51 35 W.
The ZIP Codes for the incorporated town/city of Laurel are 20707, 20708, 20709, 20725, and 20756.
Additionally, Although served by the Laurel postal service, Montpelier is not inside the town/city limits; the same is true for the unincorporated communities of Scaggsville and Whiskey Bottom in Howard County, and Maryland City and Russett in Anne Arundel County. Typical of central Maryland, Laurel lies inside the Humid subtropical climate zone, with hot humid summers and cool to mild winters with high annual precipitation.
Laurel lies inside USDA plant hardiness zones 7 and 8. Climate data for Laurel, Maryland West Laurel (upper west) North Laurel Laurel Railroad Station Laurel is traversed from north to south by U.S.
Crossing all of these highways is the east-west artery of Maryland Route 198 (MD 198), which intersects with US 1 in the heart of Laurel.
Other primary state roads in Laurel are MD 216, which joins the town/city with southern Howard County, and MD 197, which runs from Laurel to Bowie.
The easterly end of MD 200 (the Intercounty Connector) lies just south of the town/city limits and joins Laurel with Gaithersburg.
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are both inside about 25 miles (40 km) of Laurel.
Are positioned in Laurel: Laurel Station and Laurel Racetrack Station, the latter with minimal service.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Metrobus service provides four lines into Laurel, and small-town Connect-a-Ride and Howard Transit bus service is available.
The Laurel Police Department and the Sixth District of the Prince George's County Police Department are the principal providers of the region's police officers.
Laurel Volunteer Fire Department Engine 103 Laurel Volunteer Fire Department The major emergency services providers for the City of Laurel and encircling parts of Prince George's County are the Laurel Volunteer Fire Department (Company 10) and the Laurel Volunteer Rescue Squad (Company 49).
The Laurel Volunteer Fire Department was formed in 1902.
Laurel Regional Hospital, assembled in 1978 as the Greater Laurel-Beltsville Hospital, and now managed by Dimensions Healthcare System, is positioned on Van Dusen Road.
See also: List of mayors of Laurel, Maryland Laurel is governed by a 5-member town/city council and a mayor.
City Council candidates must reside in Laurel a year before their election and amid their full term of office. Similarly, mayoral candidates must reside in the town/city for at least two years before to their election. Di - Pietro Community Center on Cypress Road is the polling place for Ward 2 voters. The next election, to select a mayor and town/city council members, will be held in November 2015 with propel individuals to take office at the second regular City Council meeting that follows. Regular meetings are held on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. The Laurel branch of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System, is positioned at the intersection of Seventh Street and Talbott Avenue.
The "Maryland City at Russett" branch of the Anne Arundel County Public Library is also available to Laurel residents.
Television appeared in Laurel with the establishment of the first TV broadcast stations in Washington in 1946.
For decades, Laurel has been served by the VHF TV channels 4 (WRC-TV / NBC), 5 (WTTG / FOX), 7 (WJLA-TV / ABC), and 9 (WUSA / CBS) from Washington; channels 2 (WMAR-TV / ABC), 11 (WBAL-TV / NBC), and 13 (WJZ-TV / CBS) from Baltimore; plus Maryland Public Television from Annapolis and Baltimore.
From these three cities, scores of AM and FM airways broadcasts reach Laurel.
Laurel has one small-town newspaper, the Laurel Leader, and one mediumwave AM airways broadcast, WILC 900, with a conservative talk format.
With its locale between Washington and Baltimore, Laurel is also served by their daily newspapers The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Baltimore Sun.
Many Laurel inhabitants also read a no-charge newspaper, the Washington Examiner.
Local performing arts outlets include the Venus Theatre, Laurel Mill Playhouse, Central Maryland Chorale (formerly Laurel Oratorio Society) and Montpelier Arts Center, which also features an art loggia.
See also: People from Laurel, Maryland Marty Friedman Former Megadeth lead guitarist attended Laurel High School in the 1970s. Phair Elementary School in Laurel, as a child in the mid-to-late 1970s. Andrew Maynard American boxer who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, was born in Laurel, Maryland, April 8, 1964.
Ron Turcotte Hall of Fame race horse jockey who trained at Laurel Park race course in the late 1960s.
Prince George's County Public Schools serves inhabitants inside Laurel's town/city limits.
City inhabitants are zoned to Laurel Elementary School or Scotchtown Hills Elementary School, both inside the town/city limits.
Two enhance middle schools in the Laurel area, Dwight D.
Middle Schools in Prince George's County, serve the actual town/city of Laurel.
Laurel High School serves the town/city of Laurel.
Nearby elementary schools serving areas outside of the Laurel town/city limits include Bond Mill, Deerfield Run, James H.
Harrison, Montpelier, Oaklands, and Scotchtown Hills Elementary Schools in Prince George's County; Brock Bridge and Maryland City Elementary Schools in Anne Arundel County; and Forest Ridge, Gorman, Hammond, and Laurel Woods Elementary Schools in Howard County.
Areas near Laurel in adjoining counties are served by Mac - Arthur and Meade Middle Schools in Anne Arundel County and Hammond and Murray Hill Middle Schools in Howard County.
Other enhance high schools which serve the adjoining areas outside Prince George's County include Meade High School in Anne Arundel County and Atholton, Hammond and Reservoir High Schools in Howard County.
District of Columbia Public Schools operates an alternative middle and high school near Laurel titled Maya Angelou Academy.
First Baptist School of Laurel Pre-K through undertaking 8 Kiddie Academy of Laurel for ages 6 weeks through 12 years Prince George's Community College and Howard Community College share a ground in Laurel called the Laurel College Center. Capitol College is positioned south of Laurel.
The Anne Arundel County section of Laurel hosts the Woodland Job Corps Center.
Laurel's Department of Parks & Recreation sponsors cyclic sports leagues for grownups, with youth leagues in the region offered by Laurel Little League, Greater Laurel United Soccer Club (GLUSC), Laurel Soccer Club (LSC), and the Laurel Boys and Girls Club. Events are held among eleven town/city parks, three athletic fields, and three improve centers.
The Laurel Roller Skating Center, just north of the town/city limits, provides a locale for enhance roller skating, and AMF Bowling Centers has a locale in Laurel.
"Council members, mayor sworn in at Laurel City Council meeting".
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Laurel, Maryland Human Adaptation to the Fall Line Setting: A Framework for the Archeology of Laurel, Maryland.
Human Adaptation to the Fall Line Setting: A Framework for the Archeology of Laurel, Maryland.
"City of Laurel Master Plan" (PDF).
"ATHA's Featured Community: the City of Laurel" (PDF).
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First United Methodist Church of Laurel.
The Laurel Gazette.
"Laurel Swept By Fire, Destructive Conflagration in the Pretty Little Town".
"Laurel to Have Water and Lights".
"Laurel Asks for a High School".
"LAUREL LINE OPENED.: Guests of Road Make the First Trip Over the New Route.".
Laurel Auto Races, [Laurel, Md.], July 11, 25 "LAUREL SPEEDWAY IN RECEIVERS' HANDS: Action Taken Following Filing Of Bill Of Complaint By Construction Finn OWES $28,250.
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"Laurel's outside boxing arena met mysterious end".
"Hunt And Weiner Win Bouts In New Arena At Laurel Before 2,000".
"REALESTi - TEDEALS AND BUILDING NEWS Plans For Construction Of Brewery At Laurel Are Announced".
"Laurel Prepares For Its New Era: Expected Growth".
"Nightly Blockade of Negro Section In Laurel Is Ordered Discontinued".
"Laurel to Buy, Integrate Pool for Public Use".
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Properties with a 'Laurel' mailing address may not necessarily be positioned inside the City limits.
Properties in 'Laurel 20707 and 20708' may be outside the City limits in Prince George's County....
Properties in 'Laurel 20723' are always outside the City limits in Howard County....
Properties in 'Laurel 20724' are always outside the City limits in Anne Arundel County "Station Name: MD LAUREL 3 - W".
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