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Card game in the parlor, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1910, John Dubas (fl. 1904-1973), 5 x 7 inch glass negative, Arthur U. Hooper Memorial Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Maryland Historical Society, MC9450 The Junior League of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1912-1920, Unidentified photographer, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Maryland Historical Society, MC4574 F Interior, Hippodrome Theatre, 12 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 1918, Hughes Company, 8 x 10 inch glass negative, Hughes Company Collection, Maryland Historical Society, Z9.389.PP8 Street scene, coal delivery from wagon , Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1915, Unidentified photographer, 4x5 inch glass negative, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Maryland Historical Society, MC3834 Belair Rd. was known for it’s “sticky mud” that would pull your shoes right off of you. “If a stranger wanted to meet everyone “in town,” he could do it in ten minutes, for Overlea consisted of a streetcar switch, a handful of homes, two churches, and the stores.” “There were no street lights – people got around at night with lanterns – and there was no public water system.” “Hundreds of people would come out from the city on the streetcars for a reunion with their country cousins, who in their farm wagons packed Overlea Ave, Belair Rd. and the surrounding fields.” ... Overlea's Mud Pulled Shoes Off, Wolf, G Ernest, The Sun (1837-1987); Oct 23, 1949; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Sun, The (1837-1987), pg. M2 A meeting is held to discuss the possibility of a church and possible locations for this church in Overlea. Chaired by Nicholas J. Herbert Held at Mueller & Seidell’s Hall The following families were represented: •Weger •Schaeffer •Devaughn •Woolley •Koenig •Codd •Schwartzkopf •Herbert •Hooper •Steinbacher •Huth •Hessler •Everding •Jasper •Stocker •Marka •Burkhardt •Wherritt •Gunther •Zorbach •Rist •Renson •Strassberg •Bullinger •Michel •Lawrence •Snyder •Fisher •Miller •Tindall •Maenner •Klein •Stark •Delone •Delone •Schweida •Jones •Jestadt •Kroeder •Winkler Henry Scharffetter, realtor “A fine site on Overlea Avenue . . . . This land is highly elevated, about 50 feet above any other site submitted, with a magnificent view over the surrounding country.” “In an undertaking of this kind, the location means everything as churches are built not for a brief period but for generations yet to come.” “I would earnestly ask you to make a personal inspection of the two sites under consideration.” Born in Baltimore Educated at St. Charles College, Ellicott City St. Mary’s Seminary Ordained in the Cathedral by Cardinal Gibbons Pastor of St. Michael’s from 1914-1918
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