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. (n.d.). Retrieved March 12, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley_Park,_Maryland