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Big steps in housing,commercial growth.(FRIDAY HOME GUIDE)(FOCUS: MARYLAND'S PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY AND BOWIE)
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The Washington Times
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October 21, 2005
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Byline: Mary Grace Gallagher, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Back in the 1700s, there was no more stylish place in Maryland to build a country estate than Prince George's County. With enough rich soil to support acres of tobacco, wheat and corn, plantations cropped up throughout the countryside.
"All the notables in 18th-century Maryland had plantations here," says Pam Williams, assistant museums director for the city of Bowie. "They all had their town homes and their homes here in this beautiful, green space."
Now it seems, history is repeating itself.
Today's country estates are built on 2-acre lots in suburban cul-de-sacs, but the promise of land and ...
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