Knights of the Round Table
By the 1960s, the military had come to define Lexington Park. The new boom town became the center of new consumerism in St. Mary’s County.
Pax River Turns Its Gaze Skyward
From The Slackwater Center’s 2009 archives: Local residents recall Patuxent River Naval Air Station’s role in the early years of the Space Race.
Photographic Project Comes to St. Mary’s
A photography project, Water Memories, will focus on people near the water and be displayed using water. Call 240-462-6573.
In It To Win It
It was the late 1960s, and a quiet deal to build an oil refinery in Piney Point, MD, on the Potomac River, jolted the Potomac River Association into action.
A $500 Permit Nets Piney Point an Oil Refinery
It was the late 1960s, and a quiet deal to build an oil refinery in Piney Point, MD, on the Potomac River, jolted the Potomac River Association into action.
Slackwater: Lex Park, the Inside of the Beast
When the town was full of bars and slot machines and drunken sailors … Lexington Park was the belly of a noble beast, says Charlie Hewitt.
A New Kind of Woman: Hilda Mowery
Hilda Mowery arrived in St. Mary’s Co., MD, in 1953, left her philandering husband, decided to open a bar and nightclub and to support her children.
‘Impacts’ Played the Bases
The Impacts, a ‘tight’ musical group from Lexington Park, played at military bases and headlined at a Woodstock in St. Mary’s County.
The First Carver HS Band
When Harold Herndon arrived in 1960, the Carver High School Band didn’t have a single instrument.
Criminal Charges Against The Enterprise – 1957
The time was 1957, the place Lexington Park, the upstart newspaper The Enterprise was not necessarily a welcome newcomer.
