Henrietta Lacks creates medical history
Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman living in Baltimore, unknowingly becomes a major contributor to medical research after her death in 1951.
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American Innovation
University of Maryland goes global
In 1949 the University of Maryland Global Campus is the first university to send professors overseas to teach active duty service members.
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Patuxent Naval Air Station opens in St. Mary’s in 1942 in response to WWII
The Naval Air Station Patuxent River in St. Mary’s county has an 80+ year history as the Center for Naval Aviation Training and Testing.
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Gustav Brunn, German immigrant, develops Old Bay seasoning
Gustav Brunn, German immigrant, rescued from a concentration camp, arrives in Baltimore in 1939 with a spice grinder. He develops a popular seafood seasoning mix, names it after a Chespeake Bay steamer, and sells the formula for Old Bay to McCormick & Co.
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Greenbelt, largest and most successful of the New Deal towns
Greenbelt opens in 1937 and becomes the largest and most successful of New Deal “greenbelt” towns. It becomes a model for others suburbs.
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First Presidential Radio Address delivered
WEAR, Maryland’s first radio station to go on the air, broadcasts the first public address of a US president, Warren G. Harding in 1922. He speaks to thousands in a 600 mile radius of Ft. McHenry using a new technology.
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Ward Brothers are the most famous decorative decoy carvers
Lemuel T. Ward and Steven W. Ward, barbers in Crisfield, carve realistic decoys to make extra money. They begin full time carving of realistic birds in the 1950s, turning it into a art form.
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College Park Airport is oldest continuously used airport
Wilbur Wright gives flying lessons at the College Park airstrip and civilian planes begin regular use. The airfield, opened in 1909, becomes the longest continuously used airport in the US. Photo shows a Wright airplane headed for reassembly after a crash.
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A Gaithersburg observatory measures the earth’s wobble.
Edwin Smith opens an observatory in 1899 in Gaithersburg to measure the earth’s wobble as part of a six observatory worldwide survey.
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Rural Free Delivery begins
Carroll County inaugurates Rural Free Delivery of the mail. Four letter carriers and their horses begin free daily delivery from Westminster in 1896.
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