Bowie History Atlas

The Piscataway people before European contact; Collington Hundred and the colonial land grant system; Belair Mansion & the Ogles; Slavery and resistance at the plantation; Rochambeau’s column passes through on the way to Yorktown; and Five generations of the Bowie (Boo-ee!) family

The Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, the junction town of Huntington, how Bowie got its name, the WB&A interurban railway, and three presidential funeral trains through the Bowie junction

Selima and the founding of American thoroughbred racing, 71 years at Bowie Race Track, Belair Stud’s Triple Crown dynasty, the track’s strange chronicles, and a primary source newspaper archive

James T. Woodward’s rescue of a ruined estate, William Woodward Sr.’s twenty years as chairman of The Jockey Club, Nashua’s 1955 triumph and the shooting that ended the era, Truman Capote’s literary revenge, the White House sheep, and the Belair sale to Levitt

Levitt’s postwar suburb, forced busing and its consequences, Bowie State University, Blacksox Park and sandlot baseball, the Beltway Sniper attack of 2002, City Hall’s three buildings, schools and shopping centers, the Bowie Playhouse, a Gen X neighborhood memoir, and the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Eva Cassidy “one of the greatest voices of her generation”, Paul Reed Smith, Ricky Arnold, Kathie Lee Gifford, JC Chasez, The Sports Junkies, David Jenkins, Six Flags America, Allen Pond Park, and the people of Bowie who helped preserve Belt Woods

First-person accounts, professional memoirs, and the author’s own opinions — on a father who was a genius, a federal career’s worth of unpaid overtime, the golden decade of the story song, a sick Welsh musician named Ren, a childhood summer, two years on a school bus inside the Beltway, and ideas held by people insulated from their consequences