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Boafo won election to the Bowie city council on November 6, 2019, with 34.8 percent of the vote. [5] Soon after, the council selected him to serve as the city's youngest mayor pro tempore, succeeding at-large council member Henri Gardner. [6] While working for the Bowie city council, Boafo also worked as a federal lobbyist for the Oracle ...
Bowie (/ ˈ b uː i /) is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. [3] Per the 2020 census, the population was 58,329. [4] Bowie has grown from a small railroad stop to the largest municipality in Prince George's County, and the fifth most populous city [5] and third largest city by area in the U.S. state of Maryland.
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The Pope's Creek Subdivision is a CSX Transportation railroad line in Maryland, running from Bowie to the Morgantown Generating Station in Morgantown, Maryland. [1] The Herbert Subdivision to the Chalk Point Generating Station connects to it at Brandywine and the Indian Head-White Plains railroad used to connect to it at White Plains.
In 1998, the Society learned of a century-old former farmhouse in Bowie, Maryland, that was owned and had been refurbished by the City of Bowie. The fully restored building is located at the intersection of Mitchellville and Mount Oak Roads, located just off of Route 50 and the D.C. Beltway, east of Washington, D.C.
The city of Bowie, Maryland, was founded as Huntington in 1870 at a junction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. The town was renamed Bowie in the 1880s after Governor Oden Bowie. [15] Odenton, Maryland, began as a junction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad and the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad, named after Oden Bowie in 1872. [16]
In 1990, British reggae-pop band UB40 released a cover of "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" as the second single from their ninth studio album, Labour of Love II.It stalled at number 46 on the UK Singles Chart but proved to be more successful elsewhere, peaking at number three in Australia, number six in New Zealand, and number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The Bowie family had extensive landholdings in the county and were important politically. [3] Bowieville was built in 1819-20 [2] by Mary Wooton Bowie, daughter of Robert Bowie, Governor of Maryland, on property she inherited from her father, and is very similar in styling to his home, Mattaponi, which is also of brick covered with stucco. [3]