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A Doppler weather radar image of the College Park tornado near its peak at 21:21 UTC. The tornado outbreak of September 24, 2001 was one of the worst tornado events to ever have directly affected the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area in the United States. [1]
Edgewood Arsenal under construction, 1917 Edgewood Arsenal under construction, 1917 Edgewood Arsenal under construction, 1917 Chemical plant at Edgewood Arsenal, 1917. APG is the U.S. Army's oldest active proving ground, established on October 20, 1917, six months after the U.S. entered World War I.
The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library system in the Washington D.C.–Baltimore area. [citation needed] The system includes eight libraries: six are located on the College Park campus, while the Severn Library, an off-site storage facility, is located just outside campus, and the Priddy Library is located on the University System of Maryland satellite campus in ...
Citrus grower John Ericsson built the first known home in College Park at 19 West Princeton, in the middle of what was then an 80-acre (320,000 m 2) grove.Other settlers soon followed, especially after the arrival of the South Florida Railroad in 1880, including: Adam Given, Mr. Grover, Marshall Porter, James Wilcox, Algernon Hayden, John W. Childress, and George Russell.
McDaniel College is a private college in Westminster, Maryland. Established in 1867, it was known as Western Maryland College until 2002 when it was renamed McDaniel College in honor of an alumnus who gave a lifetime of service to the college. [2] The college also has a satellite campus, McDaniel College Budapest, in Budapest, Hungary.
Benjamin Hallowell, the first President of the Maryland Agricultural College. The school was known as the Maryland Agricultural College from its founding until the state of Maryland assumed control of the university in 1916. It was then renamed the Maryland State College. Benjamin Hallowell (1859) Charles Benedict Calvert (acting, 1859 – 1860)
The Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) is a research institute established in 2001 through a collaboration between the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The primary objective of the institute is to employ interdisciplinary approaches in climate change research.
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is a performing arts complex on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. [2] The 318,000-square-foot (29,500 m 2) facility, which opened in 2001, houses six performance venues; [3] the UM School of Music; [4] and the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. [5]