New Blog: Documenting Aquasco’s African American Heritage

Guest Blog by Daria Gasparini, Architectural Historian with Robinson and Associates

In 2023, the Cedar Haven Civic Association on the Patuxent River, Inc., received a Historic Preservation Non-Capital Grant from the Maryland Historical Trust to document two African American summer resorts founded in the 1920s along the Patuxent River in Prince George’s County: Eagle Harbor and Cedar Haven. The grant also provided the opportunity to update Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties documentation for another African American landmark in Aquasco – the historic Woodville School.