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Oral History with Bab Catlin, College Park City Councilman, about Lakeland and College Park since 1985.

Telephone interview with Elwood Gross. Elwood Gross lived in Lakeland from 1933 to the 1970s. He served on the Lakeland Project Area Committee (PAC), which consisted of Lakeland residents who approved the earliest version of urban renewal plans.…

Lakeland, an African American neighborhood in College Park, Maryland, adjacent to the University of Maryland, also suffered severe flood damage. Residents evacuated between seventy-five and eighty-five of the 140 homes in Lakeland, and all the…

Google street-view capture, taken June 2012, of the New Alden-Berkley townhomes, built 1983 as a result of the Lakeland Urban Renewal Project. Photo shows the approximate location of the property the Lakeland Tavern was situated on until 1980.

Close-up of "Lakeland Plat Map, Parcels A-H, 1980. Map shows new parcel and street layout for Urban Renewal project. It also show the underlying original plat lines and street names in gray, dashed lines.

Plat map of Parcels A-H in Lakeland, City of College Park, Berwyn (21st) District, Prince George's County, Maryland. August, 1980.

Deed of sale for Lot 12 of Block 35 (5508 Richmond Ave.)

On Thursday February 07, 2013, members of the Lakeland Community Heritage Project (LCHP) visited Dr. Mary Corbin Sies’s class in “Social and Ethnic Issues in Historic Preservation,” at Holzapfel Hall on the University of Maryland Campus. The…