Lake Roland (park)
Lake Roland | |
---|---|
Location | 1000 Lakeside Drive Baltimore, MD 21210 |
Area | 500 acres (200 ha)[1] |
Created | 1945 |
Operated by | Baltimore City Department of Parks and Recreation |
Lake Roland Historic District | |
Nearest city | Baltimore, Maryland |
---|---|
Coordinates | 39°23′13″N 76°38′49″W / 39.38694°N 76.64694°W |
Area | 281 acres (114 ha) |
Built | 1858 |
Architect | Slade, James |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 92001285[2] |
Added to NRHP | October 15, 1992 |
Lake Roland is a city/county park encompassing over 500 acres of woodland,
Though the park is located just outside the northern limits of
History
The lake was constructed in the late 1850s after the city's 1854 purchase of the assets of the privately owned Baltimore Water Company, (founded 1805), following a long political controversy about the company's failure to extend water lines and service into the then outlying areas of town after the most recent annexation of 1818 which moved the city's northern boundary to then-called Boundary Avenue (today's North Avenue).[4][9] The "Beaver Dam" marble old pumping station on the eastern shore of the lake contains a marble pedestal engraved with the dates and names of the pertinent officials and contractors involved in its construction and completion in 1860–61, along with another stone tablet that used to lie at the dam's western end before its reconstruction in the mid-1990s by the city.
Further to the south, the city had also just purchased the former Lloyd Nicholas Rogers estate
Lake Roland Historic District, declared in 1992, is a national
Name
In 1945, the park was designated as the Robert E. Lee Memorial Park after General
Until the name of the park, just outside city limits, changed to Lake Roland, some saw it as a "lovely spot" but also a "reminder of the city's stance on race," a "vestige of racism" or "heritage of hate," while some historians argued that the name of "Roland Park" has "its own history as one of the most exclusive and segregated white neighborhood's in Baltimore," opening the name up to possible criticism in the future.[43]
In the aftermath of the
The Park covers over 500 acres, has a multi-faceted nature center, which opened in October 2016, along with the Paw Point Dog Park, "numerous trails, nature and environmental programs...[two] pavilions, and waterfront activities," and many other recreational opportunities.[3][51] [4][52][53] The Park works with the Lake Roland Nature Council which partnered with Maryland artists to "showcase their work in the natural beauty of Lake Roland" as part of a continuing "Art on the Trail" project which began in 2015.[54][55][4]
Gallery
-
Lake Roland dam and Greek Revival-style marble pumping station (to the right/east) where the Lake Roland outflow becomes the Jones Falls
-
Hiking trail at Lake Roland Park
See also
References
- ^ "About Carrie Murray Nature Center". Friends of Carerie Murray Nature Center. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Lake Roland". November 16, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Yesko, Jill (October 26, 2016). "New nature center enhances education programs, exhibits at Lake Roland Park". Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ Crouse, Travis (October 4, 2016). "Lake Roland". Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ "Best Parks in Baltimore for a Winter Nature Walk". January 2, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- ^ a b "Kamenetz Seeks City Approval to Rename Robert E. Lee Park". June 22, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ Lake Roland Park
- ^ Lake Roland (formerly Robert E. Lee Park).
- ^ Roland Park, Maryland History.
- ^ Sherwood Gardens.
- ^ Perlman, Bernard (June 15, 1991). "He Invented the Suburbs". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- ^ Ward Bucher and Susan Cook (June 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lake Roland Historic District" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ a b Perl, Larry (September 28, 2015). "Baltimore County renaming Robert E. Lee Park as Lake Roland". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
- ^ McIntyre, Cynthia (October 13, 2015). "Mid-Century, 1960 Stunner in Lake Roland Park: First Time On The Market, $695,000". Baltimore Fishbowl. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- ^ Baltimore Magazine. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- HistoryNet, September 17, 2015.
- ^ Garrett Power, "Apartheid Baltimore Style: the Residential Segregation Ordinances of 1910–1913," Maryland Law Review, Vol. 42, issue 2, p. 292.
- ^ Terry Klima, "Flawed history of Lee Park," The Baltimore Sun, July 28, 2015.
- ^ Eden Unger Bowditch, Images of America: Baltimore's Historic Parks and Gardens, Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004, p. 121.
- ^ Laws of the State of Maryland Made and Passed," Annapolis: George T. Melvin, 1920, p. 398.
- ^ Tim Almaguer, Images of America: Baltimore's Patterson Park, Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006, p. 68.
- ^ Sara Patenude, "PLAYING FAIR: THE FIGHT FOR INTERRACIAL ATHLETICS IN BALTIMORE," Baltimore City Historical Society, 2011.
- ^ Boyer v. Garrett, 88 F. Supp. 353 (D. Md. 1949), Justia, December 30, 1949.
- ^ Ralph Brown, "Why Robert E. Lee park?, Baltimore City Paper, July 1, 2015.
- ^ Robert Garrett was also a major sponsor of the American Eugenics Society.
- ^ [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
- ^ David Zang, "Till Death Do Us Part: The Grand Tour of Baltimore's Graveyard Greats," Baltimore Sports: Stories from Charm City, ed. Daniel A. Nathan, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2016, p. 7.
- Baltimore Sun, July 24, 2015.
- ABC 2News, July 20, 2015.
- ^ WJZ, Baltimore's Robert E. Lee Park May Be About To Get New Name, July 20, 2015.
- ^ Matthew Newman, "Don't Change the Name of Robert E. Lee Park," Red Maryland, July 9, 2015.
- ^ Evan Serpick, "Mayor to 'review' the city's Confederate statues," Baltimore City Paper, July 30, 2015.
- ^ Ed Gunts, ""Respecting history" vs. "being offensive"," Baltimore Brew, September 18, 2015.
- ^ Marc Steiner, Why Does Baltimore Have So Many Confederate Monuments?, January 23, 2015.
- ^ Dallas News, "We can't avoid America's Confederate history by removing it from view," July 2015.
- ^ "Petition: Stop Honoring White Supremacy: Change the name of Robert E. Lee Park," 2015.
- ^ Baltimore's Confederate Memory & Monuments, Baltimore's Civil Rights Heritage, 2015.
- Huffington Post, June 23, 2015.
- ^ Roberto Alejandro, "Coalition Asks for Removal of Confederate Monument in Baltimore's Wyman Park," Baltimore Afro-American, July 1, 2015.
- Gazette.net, February 25, 2011.
- ^ Erika Quesenbery Sturgill, "Baltimore's monumental debate countered by a Cecil governor," Cecil Whig, July 11, 2015.
- ^ [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]
- ^ "City Council seeks to rename Robert E. Lee Park". WBAL-TV 11. July 21, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- Patch.com. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- ^ Marc Shapiro, "Confederate Battle Flag Comes Under Fire," Jewish Times, July 2, 2015. Kamenetz had actually started "the name-changing process" before the Charleston shooting, but "the tragedy in Charleston prompted him and his staff to accelerate the process."
- ^ Wenger, Yvonne (July 17, 2015). "City legislation would rename Robert E. Lee Park". Retrieved October 4, 2015. The City of Baltimore, the park's official owner, had a bill in place to change the official name to Lake Roland Park as well.
- ^ Morgan Ome, "A legacy of anti-Semitism," Johns Hopkins News-Letter, March 3, 2016.
- ^ Campbell, Colin (May 16, 2016). "As Confederate symbols come down, 'Talbot Boys' endures". The Baltimore Sun.
- ^ Even with this name change, five Confederate memorials stand in the state, a commemorative license plate, and a street (Jobal Early Court) as noted by the Southern Poverty Law Center in a 2015 report, "Whose Heritage?: Public Symbols of the Confederacy Archived August 16, 2017, at the Wayback Machine." The five memorials in Rockville ("Confederate Monument"), Baltimore ("Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Spirit of the Confederacy)" monument, the "Confederate Women of Maryland" monument, and "Jackson and Lee Monument"), and Ellicott City ("Confederate Memorial"). The license plate is called the "Sons of Confederate Veterans Commemorative License Plate."
- ^ "Kamenetz Breaks Ground for Lake Roland Nature and Environmental Education Center". September 28, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- ^ Paw Point at Lake Roland.
- ^ Cara Ober, "Pull/Drift: An Interview with Clarissa Stowell Gregory by Cara Ober," Bmore Art, September 4, 2013.
- ^ Lake Roland Nature Council.
- ^ Art On The Trail.
External links
- Lake Roland on Google Street View
- Lake Roland – Baltimore County
- Lake Roland Historic District, Baltimore City, including photo from 1986, at Maryland Historical Trust, and accompanying map
- http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/mutts/blog/2008/05/dogs_of_our_lives_robert_e_lee.html