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Mattaponi, also known as the John Bowie Jr. House, is a historic home in Croom, Maryland, built c. 1820 on the foundation of an earlier house dating to the 1730s, [1] three miles northwest of Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland. [2] John Bowie, Sr., who emigrated to colonial Maryland in 1705 from Scotland, purchased a large tract of ...
The Central Avenue Line, designated Route C21, C22, C26, C27, C29, is a daily bus route operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Addison Road-Seat Pleasant station (C21, C22, C27, C29) or Downtown Largo station (C26) of the Blue and Silver lines of the Washington Metro, and Bowie Park & Ride Lot (C26), Pointer Ridge (C27, C29 Sunday trips), Collington Center (C21 ...
Bowie was born in Scotland in 1688 and died in Maryland in April 1759. [1] He was the first of the Bowie family to arrive in colonial Maryland , emigrating from Scotland between 1705 and 1706 and settling near Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland on the Patuxent River . [ 2 ]
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]
Bowie was born in about 1721 at the home of his parents, Brookridge a few miles from Nottingham in Prince George's County, Maryland. His father purchased a large tract of land about two miles from Nottingham for him when he was twenty one years called "Brooke's Reserve" which later became known as "Mattaponi". Here he erected a large brick house.
Robert Bowie (March 1750 – January 8, 1818) served as the 11th Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States, from 1803 to 1806, and from 1811 to 1812. [ 1 ] He was the third child born to Captain William Bowie and Margaret Sprigg, at Mattaponi . [ 2 ]
Williams Plains is a historic home located in the White Marsh Recreational Park at Bowie in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The house was built for the Hon. John Johnson (1770-1824), judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals , who purchased the property in 1812.
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]