Linthicum Centennial

House Tour Celebrates Our Past

Linthicum had had house tours in the past, but none that drew as many people and as much interest as the Centennial House Tour that was held April 27.  The Centennial Committee sold a whopping 283 tickets to the tour.  Not everyone who bought a ticket made it to every home on the tour, but some proved very popular.  The Old Linthicum Estate on Valley Road, which was the first time on the tour, counted 241 visitors alone.  The Benson-Hammond House recorded an impressive 126 visitors, as well.

John Stoll, the 90-year-old great-nephew of John Stoll who built the Old Stoll Farmhouse on Jerome Avenue was the host in the house in the afternoon, said Celeste Riddle, who chaired the House Tour subcommittee for the Centennial.  "He is delighted that 'this young couple bought the house and are restoring it historically.'  He also said that not many of the Stoll farmhouses are still around."

Historic District Designation Set for Friday, May 2

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and state Secretary of Transportation John Porcari will be on hand as the first historic district in Northern Anne Arundel County listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Linthicum Heights Historic District, is formally dedicated during a ceremony at the historic Linthicum Heights Train Station (c.1907) on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 2 p.m.

Petal Pusher is Latest Stop on Quilt Tour

The increasingly well-traveled Linthicum Centennial Quilt is currently making an appearance at the Petal Pusher florist shop at 607 South Camp Meade Road.  While this patchwork Centennial celebrity is not taking autographs, the Centennial committee is selling tickets for a chance to win it.  The quilt will be on display at Petal Pusher through April 27, the day of the Centennial Historic House Tour.  On that day it will be shown at the Woman's Club of Linthicum Heights clubhouse on Hammonds Ferry Road.  You can buy raffle tickets at Petal Pusher through April 27, and at the clubhouse on the 27th.  Tickets are $1 each or six for $5.

Quilt Conjures Memories for Baltimore Writer

The stitchings in the Linthicum Centennial quilt have touched a few people since Irma Eastland and her husband, Frank, put the finishing touches on it earlier this year.  Add another name to the list:  Rafael Alvarez, a Baltimore-born, Linthicum-reared journalist, author and television producer and writer, waxes nostaligic over the memories evoked by the quilt in a story published in the Baltimore Examiner on April 11.  Alvarez, who shuttles between Baltimore and Los Angeles, has written for Homicide: Life on the Street and HBO's hit drama, The Wire, and grew up on Orchard Road.

Limited Tickets Still Available for Historic House Tour

One hundred years ago a sleepy little agricultural village became Linthicum when the Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line Railroad laid its tracks through farmland owned by the Linthicum family. In June 1908, four Linthicum men formed the Linthicum Heights Company to develop part of their properties for residential use and the community of Linthicum was born. On Sunday, April 27 from 1 to 6 p.m. eight historic Linthicum homes will be opened and welcoming visitors during the tour sponsored by the Linthicum Centennial Committee.

Prayer Breakfast Honorees Are Longtime Linthicumites

In keeping with its "100 years of Faith" theme for it 31st annual Prayer Breakfast, the GFWC Linthicum Heights Woman's Club chose three members of the two oldest congregations in Linthicum to be the Centennial honorees. Honored from the Linthicum Heights United Methodist Church were Margaret "Marge" Tydings and Dorothy Mellor, lifelong friends, and from St. John Lutheran Church, Henry J. Imwold.