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Lincoln Park Intermediate Care history
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Two church congregations, Jerusalem United Methodist and Clinton A.M.E. Zion, date from the 1802.
United States Census 1850, "Free Inhabitants of Montgomery County."
By 1861, there were 51 black landowners with holdings totaling 17,142 acres in Montgomery County.
Bui, Lynn. "Reunion draws Montgomery students who attended segregated schools." Many recall teachers who 'made the most of what they had.' Students were segregated beginning in 1866 when the first school for African American children was built.
In February and March of 1867, twenty Rockville Black men pledged to support a school by taking responsibility for money “as may be necessary to pay the board and washing [laundry] of the teacher and to provide fuel and lights for the Schoolhouse.”
The men who signed the 1867 petition were a mixture of free men and former slaves who had gained freedom through a variety of methods.
In August 1868, he was also one of the trustees who purchased land from Mary Brashears for a school.
Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Montgomery County, Maryland, 1879.
A slave until his mid-thirties, Reuben Sr. purchased land in 1880 and teamed with former Confederate soldier and fence builder Simeon Berry to build a house northeast of Rockville.
Lincoln Park, one of the first real estate ventures for African-American homeowners in Montgomery County, is a suburban community begun in the 1890's that retains the feeling of a small town within the borders of Rockville.
Lincoln Park continued to grow through the 1890's.
Land sale was brisk from the beginning, and by 1904 over two-thirds of the Welsh property was sold. For example, Wallace Martin bought Lot 5 Block 2 on Lincoln Avenue on May 21, 1891, and Lot 6 Block 2 five months later.
The first lot in Lincoln Park was sold to Ella Martin on June 30, 1891.
When Lincoln Park was established in 1891, the Rockville District's black population was living principally in five areas.
The Dodd property was platted on June 27, 1892, and designation "The First Addition to Lincoln Park."
Henry and Maggie Shelton built this house in 1914 and lived here for many years. It was sold to Christopher Columbus R. Patterson in 1893.
The Cookes built this handsome Queen Anne house in about 1895, copying rowhouses familiar to them from living in Pittsburgh.
Reuben Sr. helped to build a brick dwelling on the new subdivision of Lincoln Park in 1897.
The offices of the black owned newspaper, The Daily Record, that were burned by rioters and shown in photo from 1898 is the one that was owned by Henry Manly’s family.
Bessie built a house at 602 Falls Road in Rockville in 1902.
Evelyn's relatives Ella and Wallace Martin also owned property on the same street, and, in 1902, William Henry's mother, Hester Butler, bought a lot adjacent to his.
Land sale was brisk from the beginning, and by 1904 over two-thirds of the Welsh property was sold.
Although the deeds conveying this property mention a plat filed November 17, 1906, the plat is yet to be found.
Turner received a gold medal and twenty gold dollars for oratory and he was acclaimed the "best speaker in the Negro public schools of Montgomery County." The medal, dated 1906, is in the collection of the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum.
One purchase of significance to the entire community occurred on June 12, 1917, when the Order of the Galilean Fisherman acquired land from the Griffith tract for a cemetery.
Willis and his wife Violet moved to Rockville from Georgia in the 1920s.
Reuben Hill, Jr. and his wife Carrie Blair Hill [?-1922] lived at 305 Lincoln Avenue.
The Isreal family migrated to Rockville from Georgia in 1923, seeking a better life.
The Hicks house, a one-story frame structure dating from 1927, was built by Ardell Shirley Hilliard's maternal grandfather, Louis Hicks, as an investment for his daughter.
Recounts Lincoln High School’s history, starting in 1927 as Rockville High School.
Reverend Davis bought the Westmore property from "Button" Griffith, and worked on the house with friends and family, starting in 1929.
In 1936, the Rockville Colored Elementary School was the setting for an historical event.
In the late 1940's, Lincoln High bought surplus quonset huts from the Navy.
In 1940, Isreal joined the Newark Eagles team of the Negro National League.
Raymond Yates designed this house and built it over four years in the late 1940's, working in the evenings and on weekends.
Isreal signed with the Homestead Grays again in 1947, where his teammates included Hall of Famers Josh Gibson, Bucky Leonard, and Cool Papa Bell.
They presented a petition to the Mayor and Council of Rockville on January 6, 1949, requesting incorporation into the Town of Rockville.
The house was remodeled in the 1950's, and the Prathers' youngest child, Elsie Prather Jackson, still resides there.
In 1953, Morris Stern, a local businessman, opened the eight-unit Lenmor Apartments in a converted movie theater on Frederick Avenue in Lincoln Park.
The Rocklin Apartments, originally named the Carver Apartments, were built in 1954.
McEwan, Peggy. "Church tour finds religion in historic spaces: 'Community Cornerstones' booklet includes 21 congregations." With photo of Sunday school classes of Jerusalem United Methodist Church in Rockville, circa 1955 from Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation, Ltd.
Lincoln Terrace, a public housing project which opened in 1959 was built by the Rockville Housing Authority on land bought from the Fisherman's Lodge.
Crude grave markers from this cemetery could be found as late as the 1960's.
When a house was erected on the Frederick Avenue property in the 1960's, the bodies were reinterred in Fishermen's Cemetery.
The following year, having retired from baseball, Isreal took a job as a technician at the National Institutes of Health, where he worked until 1973.
17, 1974. (Biographical file at MCHS also contains a one-page typescript biography and remembrance by his daughter, Evelyn H. Gaunt.) From the Biography Files at MCHS. Also MCPL-R.
The store, owned by the Chungs since 1976, was sold earlier this month to Robert Kim, a Silver Spring resident.
Montgomery County Sentinel, July 28, 1977.
Washington, DC: Afro-American Institute for Historic Preservation and Community Development, August 1978.
Drawing by Colleen King for 1980 calendar.
Interview, 1983 with Violet Isreal.
The Crusader Baptist Church was founded in 1985 by Reverend Rodney T. Davis.
Continuing a family tradition, Shelton's great-grandson, Timothy Bell, joined the department in 1985.
Rockville, Maryland: Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation, Ltd., 1996.
For history see: http://www.peerlessrockville.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/305-Lincoln-Ave.pdf
Broome, Duffin, S.R. and Smith A.N., The Montgomery County Story, Winter 2020, Vol 62, No.2, at HSMC Library, and Rockville Memorial Library.
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