The community of Langley Park is located on the northwestern
edge of Prince Georges County, inside the Capital Beltway. Langley Park was
established in 1923 by the McCormick-Goodhart family. “The name
McCormick-Goodhart represented the linking of one of Chicago’s oldest families,
that of Cyrus McCormick, with that of British barrister Frederick E.
McCormick-Goodhart” (Wikipedia, 2019). The families named this 540 acre piece
of land Langley Park.
Langley Park was subdivided after World War II and “was
developed as a planned community by Pierre Ghent & Associates of
Washington, D.C. (Wikipedia, 2019). Based on the needs after the war was over,
the area of Langley Park was developed into apartments, semi-detached and single family housing. Finally in 1963 the
last large section of the area began to see development for use as a seminary
and was used up until the early 1990’s.
Our school, Langley Park McCormick Elementary, opened its
doors in 1950. “In 1988, Leander McCormick-Goodhart, real estate developer and
descendant of the estate owners, sent the school a $10,000 donation after receiving
an invitation to attend a school event” (Wikipedia, 2019). At that time sixty
percent of the schools population was foreign born and spoke twenty-seven
different languages.
Langley Park, Maryland.
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