The Town of Riverdale Park will name the green space known as the “field of dreams” after Adam and Emily Plummer, a married couple whose life stories in the area are told in a well-known family biography written by their daughter.
Hyattsville was at the forefront of a movement in the 1910s to impose racial segregation block-by-block in U.S. cities, an effort worth remembering this Martin Luther King Day.
New homes are selling on the former site of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in Hyattsville’s Historic District.
The most-read stories on the Hyattsville Wire last year showcased the incredible diversity of the Route 1 corridor.
The first Japanese-American mayor in the U.S. was elected in Edmonston in 1927, decades before other Nisei served on the mainland.
The National Agricultural Library in Beltsville maintains a thorough collection of memorabilia related to the iconic wildfire spokesman Smokey Bear.
The late Hyattsville artist and educator David Driskell is the subject of a new exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle.
The Roosevelt administration’s regulations for setting up the city of Greenbelt in 1937 indirectly led to the creation of a synagogue that is still around today.
When an epidemic hit Riverdale Park in 1813, those affected did not yet have the scientific understanding to know why it was happening.
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