Editing Woodmore, Maryland (section)

== History ==
The first colonial owner of the Woodmore site was [[Thomas Spriggs]], who in 1698 acquired {{convert|500|acre|km2}} of what was then known as the forest of [[Prince George's County, Maryland|Prince George's County]] in the Crown Colony of Maryland.

The first house in the area was a two-story brick house named [[Pleasant Prospect]] (still standing at 12806 Woodmore Road).,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/018000/018800/018893/pdf/msa_se5_18893.pdf |access-date=2023-03-22 |title= Access Restricted to This Document |url-access=limited}}</ref> built c. 1798 by Dr. [[Isaac Ducket]], the husband of Spriggs' granddaughter. He also doubled the size of the estate to over 1,000 acres.

Pleasant Prospect was inherited by Ducket's son-in-law, John Contee, and then by his son, also John Contee, who became indebted and sold the estate to the Bowies, then the Washington D.C. lumber magnates the Walkers. Although the Walker family sold the house in 1982,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/md/md0500/md0559/data/md0559data.pdf|title = Historic American Buildings Survey, Pleasant Prospect Written Historical and Descriptive Data|access-date = 9 December 2015|website = Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey|publisher = Library of Congress|last = Smith|first = Delos}}</ref> Walker descendants also continued to own land and farm on the south side of Woodmore Road, part of which farmland was sold to create Woodmore Meadows.

Much of the land in Woodmore prior to the 1980s was owned by various farming families, the most prominent of which being the Walker family and the Shatenstein family, the latter of which owned large tracts of land along the northern and southern boundaries of Woodmore Road.

In 1977 a portion of the Shatenstein property located along the northern boundary of Woodmore Road, was purchased by the County to replace the former Prince George's Golf and Country Club, formerly located in Cheverly. The [[Country Club at Woodmore]] was designed and the gated community planned through a joint venture between the County and GolfAmerica, a process which took 15 years as the seven area [[homeowner association]]s eventually merged.<ref name="aboutwoodmore" /> In 1995, the residue of the Shatenstein estate on the southern boundary was sold to Winchester Homes, who developed the Woodmore South community. In 2010 the [[U.S. Census Bureau]] redefined northern parts of the Woodmore CDP as the new [[Fairwood, Maryland|Fairwood CDP]].<ref>"[http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2427580_fairwood/DC10BLK_P2427580_001.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Fairwood CDP, MD]." [[U.S. Census Bureau]]. Retrieved on August 28, 2018.</ref><ref name="Woodmoremap">"[http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2486710_woodmore/DC10BLK_P2486710_000.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Woodmore CDP, MD]." [[U.S. Census Bureau]]. Retrieved on August 28, 2018. Pages: [http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2486710_woodmore/DC10BLK_P2486710_001.pdf 1], [http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2486710_woodmore/DC10BLK_P2486710_002.pdf 2], [http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2486710_woodmore/DC10BLK_P2486710_003.pdf 3] [http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2486710_woodmore/DC10BLK_P2486710_004.pdf 4] [http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2486710_woodmore/DC10BLK_P2486710_005.pdf 5], and [http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2486710_woodmore/DC10BLK_P2486710_006.pdf 6]. The Census Bureau previously defined the CDP as having a larger area: "[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st24_Maryland/Place/2486710_Woodmore/CBP2486710_001.pdf CENSUS 2000 BLOCK MAP: WOODMORE CDP]." The 1990 Prince George's County map ([https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_000.pdf index map]) shows Woodmore CDP on pages [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_015.pdf 15] and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_019.pdf 19].</ref>