Paths #86-History of Germantown, MD

[@mariealyse6844]

I spent every summer in Germantown in the 50's and the first part of the 60's. I stayed with my Grandmother who owned and operated the Marylander Home of Rest. It was an old plantation house converted into a retirement residence. I remember every inch of it and loved my 3 months a year there. My Grandmother was LeWanna Dickinson. I remember walking down to get the mail at the post office, getting a soda at the general store and visiting Mr Jordan to play checkers on his porch. Those were special days for me as a kid that have lasted all these years. The population was about 150 and was told 200 if you count the dogs. It was a lovely time for me. As for some of the comments below, it was not that lovely for people of color. But at the Marylander I do have wonderful memories of the black women who work there. Yes mostly in the kitchen and the laundry but the the full time night RN was a black woman..Gladys . Life for them in general was not as lovely but working at the Marylander did I think helped those women and their families. I have many many great memories of my time there and those women who taught me so much!

[@mocochronicles]

So cool. I’m 16 I wouldn’t know. All I know is new houses and roads.

[@TheMetGuy]

That eastbound intermodal train you see is CSX I138

[@Oldlinestatetrains]

I’m a train enthusiast and railfanner 5:49 you see that it was not Amtrak steam engine it was B&O capital limited but lots of years later it turned to Amtrak and chessie syestem or either seaboard coastline turned to csx transportation

[@cynthiaduquette7423]

I grew up in Germantown. Train station with store and post office. Getting floral printed feed sacks. The Marylander retirement home and as a girls scout making gifts for the residents I worked at Cider barrel. Best cider and apples. Mr Cross owned it. Dairy farms. Sugar loaf mountain with virtually no one there. The Dickerson query for swimming. People drove out from DC on 355. Rural America long gone now.

[@chrislang7146]

I would get lost now if I went back.

[@KarnaksDreamofLife]

This year I had a camp here

[@dopemcee]

tbh, i thought they would discuss the black population that lived in germantown whose history has been slowly erased or phased out.

[@sophiasummer7339]

Seriously????? Everything is racial for you guys. This was about who founded germantown and the businesses that were built here. What did the black population do?

[@dopemcee]

@@sophiasummer7339 you have to discuss the totality of history , not just cherry pick which ones you want to talk about and which you dont. perhaps the reason you and i dont know much about what impact the black population had is because there history is intentionally omitted and therefore no interest is shown on researching it. Stop being a snowflake and leave your feelings of "racial annoyance" at the door, i speak from the vantage point of history, authentic history, collective history.

[@mikekreen9336]

That black population did not live in Germantown when established. They lived for the most part in the area of Boyds, along White Ground Road, Hoyles Mill Road, Bucklodge Lodge Road, Slidell Road, W. Old Baltimore Road, and Riffle Ford Road. There is even a historic, Boyds Negro School House along White Ground Road as well. Tours are by appointment. Many folks were farmers and farm helpers.

[@patriciapadilla2022]

They do what they do, get up there with a sign and change it. If you don't like it of course. They're more concerned about the cider Barrel Old trailer park history, people are more concerned about the crackheads at the trailer park there. Oh that's right they tore down. But the crackheads remained

[@patriciapadilla2022]

@@dopemcee historically you're trying to control the narrative. Black's had a lot to do with history in Germantown. Just look at the trailer park that used to be behind the cider Barrel. The blacks and their primitive drug culture was very important to the Germantown police force and its totality. With their history of the abundance of illegal narcotics that came in and out of that historic trailer park would not have happened had it not been for all the black people that came there that did not live there there was not one black family that lived there. They came from all over the Washington metropolitan area just to be a part of Germantown and it's drug culture. LOL

[@brianellinger6622]

I actually lived in one of those shown houses for a while

[@patriciapadilla2022]

That's something to be proud of

[@jacquelinearcosvivas8827]

Adoro la historia de ésta maravillosa comunidad, desearía entenderla mejor con subtitulos en español