Editing College Park, Maryland (section)

===20th century===
[[File:Wright brothers plane wreck College Park MD.jpg|thumb|left|Army workers carrying the wreck of the [[Wright brothers]]' plane at the College Park airport in 1911]]
In 1909 the College Park Airport was established by the [[United States Army Signal Corps]] to serve as a training location for [[Wilbur Wright]] to instruct military officers to fly in the US government's first airplane. Civilian aircraft began flying from College Park Airport as early as December 1911, making it the world's oldest continuously operated airport.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms|date=2017-08-29|title=College Park Airport (U.S. National Park Service)|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/college-park-airport.htm|access-date=2020-07-17|website=National Park Service|language=en}}</ref>

Commercial development in the city increased in the 1920s, aided by the increased automobile traffic and the growing campus along [[U.S. Route 1 in Maryland|Baltimore Avenue/Route 1]]. By the late 1930s, most of the original subdivision had been partially developed. Several fraternities and sororities from the University of Maryland built houses in the neighborhood. After [[World War II]], construction consisted mostly of infill of ranch and split-level houses. After incorporation in 1945, the city continued to grow, and a municipal center was built in 1959.<ref name="sha">{{cite web|url=http://www.sha.maryland.gov/oppen/pg_co.pdf |title=Community Summary Sheet, Prince George's County|date=May 10, 2008|work=College Park, Maryland|publisher=Maryland State Highway Administration, 1999}}</ref>

The '''Lakeland''' neighborhood was developed beginning in 1890 around the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, whose Branchville and Calvert Road depots were located approximately one mile to the north and south, respectively. Lakeland was created by Edwin Newman, who improved the original {{convert|238|acre|km2}} located to the west of the railroad. He also built a number of the original homes, a small town hall, and a [[general store]]. The area was originally envisioned as a resort-type community. However, due to the flood-prone, low-lying topography, the neighborhood became an area of African-American settlement. Around 1900, the Baltimore Gold Fish Company built five artificial lakes in the area to spawn [[goldfish]] and rarer species of fish. By 1903 Lakeland was an established African-American community with a school and two churches. Lakeland was central in a group of African American communities located along Route One through Prince Georges County. Lakeland High School opened in 1928 with funding from the [[Rosenwald Fund]], the African American community and the county. Lakeland High served all African American students in the northern half of the county until 1950 when it was converted to a facility for lower grades. The community's first Rosenwald school was a new elementary which opened in 1925.<ref name=AACP>{{cite book |title=Lakeland: African Americans in College Park |author=Lakeland Community Heritage Project |year=2009 |isbn=978-0738567594 |publisher=Arcadia }}</ref>

[[File:Potomac Electric Power Co House College Park MD.jpg|thumb|Potomac Electric Power Company House in College Park, 1938]]

The '''Berwyn''' neighborhood was developed beginning about 1885 adjacent to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It was created by Francis Shannabrook, a [[Pennsylvania]]n who purchased a tract of land between Baltimore Avenue and the railroad tracks. Shannabrook established a small depot, built a general store, and erected approximately 15 homes in the area to attract moderate-income families looking to move out of Washington. The neighborhood began to grow after 1900 when the [[Streetcars in Washington, D.C. (Maryland)#City and Suburban Railway|City and Suburban Electric Railway]] entered the area. By 1925, approximately 100 single-family homes existed, mostly two-story, wood-frame buildings. The community housing continued to develop in the 1930s and 1940s with one story bungalows, Cape Cods, and Victorians and, later, raised ranches and split-level homes.<ref name="sha"/>

The '''Daniels Park''' neighborhood was developed, beginning in 1905 on the east and west sides of the City and Suburban Electric Railway in north College Park. Daniels Park was created by Edward Daniels on {{convert|47|acre|ha}} of land. This small residential subdivision was improved with single-family houses arranged along a grid pattern of streets. The houses—built between 1905 and the 1930s—range in style from [[American Foursquare]]s to bungalows.<ref name="sha"/>

The '''Hollywood''' neighborhood was developed in the early 20th century along the City and Suburban Electric Railway. Edward Daniels, the developer of Daniels Park, planned the Hollywood subdivision as a northern extension of that earlier community. Development in Hollywood was slow until after World War II, when Albert Turner acquired large tracts of the northern part of the neighborhood in the late 1940s. Turner was able to develop and market brick and frame three-bedroom bungalows beginning in 1950. By 1952, an elementary school had been built. Hollywood Neighborhood Park, a {{convert|21|acre|ha|adj=on}} facility along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, is operated by the [[Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission]].<ref name="sha"/>

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In 1943, due to [[World War II]] efforts to conserve rail transport, the [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] relocated their [[spring training]] camp to College Park. The locations of 1943 [[Major League Baseball]] spring training camps were limited to an area east of the [[Mississippi River]] and north of the [[Ohio River]].<ref>Suehsdorf, A. D. (1978). ''The Great American Baseball Scrapbook'', p. 103. Random House. {{ISBN|0-394-50253-1}}.</ref>

During the 1960s through the 1980s an Urban Renewal Project took place within the historic African American community of Lakeland. This project was carried out in the face of the opposition of the community's residents and resulted in the redevelopment of approximately two thirds of the community. It displaced 104 of Lakeland's 150 households.<ref name="AACP" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bernard |first1=Diane |title=A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/02/college-park-reparations-urban-renewal/ |access-date=November 2, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=November 2, 2021}}</ref>

The [[College Park–University of Maryland station]] opened in 1993, connecting College Park to Washington D.C. by means of [[Washington Metro|Metro]]. During its construction in the late 1980s, sand and gravel were excavated from the site of an adjacent small lake. In return, Metro built [[Lake Artemesia]] on the site, a large recreational area that includes aquatic gardens, fishing piers, and hiker-biker trails.