Carole Highlands, Maryland
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Carole Highlands is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.[1] It is contained between East West Highway (MD 410) to the south, University Boulevard (MD 193) to the north, Larch Avenue, Hopewell Avenue, and 15th Avenue to the west, and Riggs Road (MD 212) to the east. Carole Highlands borders the adjacent neighborhoods of Chillum, Green Meadows, Lewisdale, and Langley Park in Prince George's County, while bordering the city of Takoma Park in Montgomery County. For statistical purposes, it is part of the Langley Park census-designated place (CDP).[2] The community also has a community association and non-profit: Carole Highlands Neighborhood Association
Physical geography
Carole Highlands mainly includes single-family houses as well as the Riggs Hill Condominium Complex. Since Carole Highlands is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland, Carole Highlands lacks its own neighborhood address and zipcode. As a result, most of the businesses and residences located within Carole Highlands, are assigned Hyattsville addresses, containing the Hyattsville/Adelphi zipcode of 20783 while a few business and residences located on the far western boundary of Carole Highlands, next to the Prince George's County/ Montgomery County Line, are assigned Takoma Park addresses, containing the Takoma Park zipcode of 20912. Carole Highlands was a planned community was named for the developer's daughter, Carole, and because much of it is literally on "high land." At the very top of the neighborhood is a water tower. Elevation above sea level (topo map here) reaches a maximum of 220 feet (67 m) at the water tower, and slopes downhill to its minimum of 95 feet (29 m) on Elson Street along Sligo Creek Park.
A 200-foot (61 m)-high
Roads, hiker-biker trails, and political geography
Carole Highlands is located within a residential section east of 15th Avenue, northeast of Sligo Creek Park and MD-410 (East-West Highway), west of MD-212 (Riggs Road) and south of MD-193 (University Boulevard).
The only direct road access into the neighborhood is via Erskine Street (from New Hampshire Avenue) or Drexel Street (from Riggs Road).
Elson Street and Sligo Parkway East give Carole Highlands two access points to Sligo Creek Trail, which was designated a National Recreation Trail in 2006 (external link here). The
The western boundary of the Carole Highlands neighborhood is the current border between Montgomery County, Maryland and Prince George's County, Maryland, behind the backyards of the houses in Carole Highlands that face 15th Avenue. The section of Carole Highlands consists of single-family houses, starts at the Prince George's County/ Montgomery County Line and ends on East-West Highway (MD 410), the portion of Riggs Road (MD 212) south of Drexel Street, and 17th Avenue. Between portion of Carole Highlands, where Drexel Street/ Erskine Street east of 17th Avenue, and where Riggs Road intersects Drexel Street, north of East-West Highway (MD 410), near University Boulevard (MD 193), is where the "Riggs Hill Condominium Complex, which is the only condominium complex in Carole Highlands, is located.
Plants and animals
The neighborhood is lined with a canopy of mature trees. For this reason, Carole Highlands appears as a dark green patch on satellite images of the Washington area.
Many of the trees belong to species
Some
History
The largest section of the neighborhood was developed as a planned community by
The house styles of the development included traditional two-story "brick colonial" and 1+1⁄2-story "Dutch colonial" models; the then-new "California Cottage home" designed by Carl Freeman himself as a "truly livable space" with a naturally flowing connection with the outdoors; one-story frame ranch houses and, at the edge of the formal Carole Highlands Section on 17th Avenue, a row of attached (double) family homes. Some of the detached Freeman houses were subsequently enlarged with dormers or one or two-story additions, while others are still in their pristine state to the current day.
In 1960, the neighborhood Citizen's Association successfully brought a legal case against the Board of County Commissioners of Prince George's County. As a result, the court prohibited the building of a
The portion of Takoma Park located west of 15th Avenue, but east of Prince George's Avenue, Merrimac Drive, and Carroll Avenue, was originally located in Prince George's County, Maryland, from up until July 1, 1997. Earlier in 1997, residents living within the portion of Takoma Park located within Prince George's County, voted affirmatively to unify the City of Takoma Park under the jurisdiction of Montgomery County. The county line was shifted, changing Prince George's County's boundaries for the first time since 1791.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools
Students from Carole Highlands Section in Prince George's County are currently assigned to Carole Highlands Elementary School—located within the section, Buck Lodge Middle School and High Point High School. Prince George's County Public Schools.
See * Carole Highlands Elementary School
Places of Worship
In 2003, the Turner Memorial AME congregation purchased the large church building within the section from the Wallace Memorial Presbyterian congregation that formerly occupied its multiple lots. Two Protestant and one Roman Catholic churches are located within easy walking distance on near-by New Hampshire Avenue.
Public libraries
The closest public
The second closest public library to Carole Highlands is the Hyattsville Library. This library is on Adelphi Road to the east of the
Statistics and elected officials
- Wanika Fisher PG District 2 externally.
- For current Montgomery County councilmembers, check MC District 5 externally.
- Deni Taveras, District 47B (Prince George's County)
- District 20 (Montgomery County)
- For current Maryland state delegates, check district on this list or externally.
- Maryland State Senate:
- Malcolm Augustine, District 47B (Prince George's County)
- District 20 (Montgomery County)
- For current Maryland state senators, check district on this list or externally.
- Maryland District 4
- Glenn Ivey, current U.S. representative.
- Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin, current U.S. senators.
- Lieutenant Governor of Maryland:
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Carole Highlands, Maryland
- ^ "Prince George's County, MD: Census Incorporated Places & Census Designated Places" (PDF). Prince George's County Map. Maryland Department of Planning. January 29, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 29, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
External links
- Location in the DC Metro area
- Map of proposed Purple Line route Archived 2010-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, published by the Washington Post, May 31, 2007
- Topo map with streets, elevation contours and landmarks
- Map of the Carole Highlands Elementary School District[permanent dead link]
- Gazette.net article 01/11/2007 "At Carole Highlands [Elementary School], small groups spell success on MSA"
- The original builders, Carl M. Freeman Associates
- Sligo Creek Trail
- Friends of Sligo Creek
- the nearby International Corridor/Gateway Arts District