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1965 Map of Lanham

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Lanham
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

About this map

The Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) and the U S Department of Agriculture Research Center dominate the northwestern landscape of Prince George's County in the mid-1960s. This survey reveals a suburbanizing region still defined by institutional land use and open space, from the sprawling grounds of the Glenn Dale Hospital to the USDA Plant Introduction Sta. Residential clusters like Seabrook Acres, High Bridge Estates, and Hillmeade Manor are interspersed with older landmarks and infrastructure, including the Pennsylvania railroad line and the Balt. Wash. Pkwy.

Local recreational and community hubs are well-documented, showing the Vista Raceway, the Drive-in Theater near Buena Vista, and the Robert M Watkins Regional State Park along the Western Branch. Small rural churches and schools, such as Holy Trinity Ch and the Woodmore Road Sch, provide critical points of interest for genealogists tracing family roots in communities like Fletchertown and Collington before the intensified development of the later 20th century.