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Block 35, Lot 8 - Mattie and Alex Johnson
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Property Description of Block 35, Lot 8 in Lakeland, Maryland
7009 Winnipeg Avenue, College Park, Maryland 20740
Block 35, Lot 8 of Lakeland, Maryland, sits on the east side of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks at the Corner of Winnipeg and Richmond Avenues. Edwin A. Newman platted the subdivision of Lakeland, and Block 35 within its boundaries, in 1890. Edwin A. Newman who owned a real estate business operating from an office on Columbia Road, NW in the District of Columbia (1890 Washington DC City Directory) planned to develop the land for white residents as a resort-style community (Lakeland Community Heritage Project 2009: 9).
The ownership of Block 35, Lot 8 was transferred to J. Roberts Foulke and J. Barton Townshend, trustees of the Providence Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, a corporation of the state of Pennsylvania, in 1906. Edwin A. Newman and his wife, Clara A. Newman transferred the property, along with others in Lakeland, to the Providence Life and Trust Company as payment for a debt that they owed to the company.
John J. Kleiner acquired the property from the Providence Life and Trust Company in January of 1910. Kleiner lived in adjacent Berwyn Heights and was a real estate dealer (1930 Census), who acquired many properties in Lakeland during this time period. In the Polk’s Maryland and District of Columbia Gazetteer for 1909-1911, J.J. Kleiner and Co. Real Estate is listed as operating out of Berwyn, Maryland.
Kleiner retained ownership of the property, along with other parcels of land on Block 35 and throughout Lakeland, until it was inherited by his son R. Murray Kleiner, and daughter-in-law, Josephine G. Kleiner, as a condition of his will in 1941. A later deed, recorded in 1947, however, says that the “above described lots and real estate embrace all of the real estate in Prince George’s County, Maryland, which the said Reginald Murray Kleiner, acquired as devisee, under the will of his brother John J. Kleiner†(Prince George’s County Land Records, Book 1541, Liber 502). Census data from 1930, however, shows that R. Murray Kleiner was the son of the John J. Kleiner who owned this property jointly with his wife Eliza, although he also had a younger brother named John J. Kleiner (1930 Census).
Ownership of the Lakeland properties held by R. Murray and Jesephine G. Kleiner were briefly transferred to Matilda Duvall for part of a day in 1947, but were transferred back the same day. It is unclear what the relationship between the Kleiners and Duvall was, as well as why the deed was rewritten twice on December 27, 1947. The properties transferred were Block 2, lot 5; Block 3, lots 4, 2,3,17,18,14, and 13; Block 13, lots F, G, H, I, J, K, and 11; Block 34, lots 2, 8, and 10; Block 35, lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 8, 1, 14, and 9; Block 41, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; and Block 44, lots 5, 2, 3, 14, and 15.
Block 35, lot 8 ownership was transferred to Mattie and Alex Johnson on September 27, 1952. The manuscript census data for the 1940 and 1950 census data are not yet available, but in an oral history interview, Dr. Joanne Braxton spoke about her grandmother Emma Harrison’s best friend, Mrs. Mattie Johnson, and her husband Mr. Alexander Johnson, who was called “Pop Bud†by people in the community. Dr. Braxton believes that Mrs. Johnson was originally from South Carolina, and remembers that she liked to sit with Mrs. Johnson and hear her stories (Braxton 2009). Mr. Bud Johnson was the garbage collector for the Lakeland community. Mr. Bud would pick up the food garbage in a truck outfitted with gallon size steel drums, and would then feed the garbage to his hogs. This was an important service to the community because there was no garbage pickup from College Park (Edwards and Edwards 2009). Mr. Bud Johnson also had a store where he sold "day-old merchandise" (Sharps-Jones at first Lakeland Presentation 2009)
After the death of Mattie Johnson in 1976, which followed the death of Alex Johnson in 1963, the property was purchased from Robert Johnson, the administrator of Mattie Johnson’s estate, by the city of College Park as part of the urban renewal process. In 1990, ownership of the property was transferred from the City of College Park to the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority.
A map of Lakeland, prepared around the time of urban renewal in 1978, shows one structure on Block 35, Lot 8, and other structure straddling the property line between Lots 7 and 8 (Greenhorne & O’Meara 1978). The College Park Records and building inventories from the time of urban renewal are not currently available for Block 35 but, if they become available, they may be able to shed more light on these structures as well as their occupants.
References Cited:
Braxton, Joanne
2009 Oral History Interview with Dr. Joanne Braxton. Conducted by Portia Barker, Douglas Ishii, and Katie White, in Lakeland Community Heritage Project/UMCP partnership, Item #447, http://otal.umd.edu/omeka/lakeland/items/show/447 (accessed January 13, 2010)
Edwards, James and Pearl Lee Campbell Edwards
2009 Oral History Interview with Mr. James Edwards and
Mrs. Pearl Lee Campbell Edwards. Conducted by Rebecca Lueg and Jocelyn Knauf in Lakeland Community Heritage Project/UMCP partnership, Item #387, http://otal.umd.edu/omeka/lakeland/items/show/387 (accessed January 13, 2010).
Greenhorne & O’Meara, Inc.
1978 Zoning Plat Map of “Lakeland†Urban Renewal Area, City of College Park, Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Lakeland Community Heritage Project
2009 Lakeland: African Americans in College Park. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
Prince George’s County Land Records
1890 Liber JWB5, Folio 486
1906 Liber 37, Folio 15
1909 Liber 52, Folio 37
1910 Liber 59, Folio 277
1941 Liber WEC1, Folio 262
1947a Liber 1007, Folio 392
1947b Liber 1007, Folio 396
1952 Liber 1541, Folio 502
1976 Liber 4670, Folio 942
1990 Liber 7782, Folio 36
R. L. Polk and Co.
1890 Washington DC City Directory. Accessed online through ancestry.com.
1909 Maryland and District of Columbia Gazetteer for 1909-1911, Vol. X. Accessed online through ancestry.com.
United States Bureau of the Census
1930 Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives
and Records Administration.
7009 Winnipeg Avenue, College Park, Maryland 20740
Block 35, Lot 8 of Lakeland, Maryland, sits on the east side of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks at the Corner of Winnipeg and Richmond Avenues. Edwin A. Newman platted the subdivision of Lakeland, and Block 35 within its boundaries, in 1890. Edwin A. Newman who owned a real estate business operating from an office on Columbia Road, NW in the District of Columbia (1890 Washington DC City Directory) planned to develop the land for white residents as a resort-style community (Lakeland Community Heritage Project 2009: 9).
The ownership of Block 35, Lot 8 was transferred to J. Roberts Foulke and J. Barton Townshend, trustees of the Providence Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, a corporation of the state of Pennsylvania, in 1906. Edwin A. Newman and his wife, Clara A. Newman transferred the property, along with others in Lakeland, to the Providence Life and Trust Company as payment for a debt that they owed to the company.
John J. Kleiner acquired the property from the Providence Life and Trust Company in January of 1910. Kleiner lived in adjacent Berwyn Heights and was a real estate dealer (1930 Census), who acquired many properties in Lakeland during this time period. In the Polk’s Maryland and District of Columbia Gazetteer for 1909-1911, J.J. Kleiner and Co. Real Estate is listed as operating out of Berwyn, Maryland.
Kleiner retained ownership of the property, along with other parcels of land on Block 35 and throughout Lakeland, until it was inherited by his son R. Murray Kleiner, and daughter-in-law, Josephine G. Kleiner, as a condition of his will in 1941. A later deed, recorded in 1947, however, says that the “above described lots and real estate embrace all of the real estate in Prince George’s County, Maryland, which the said Reginald Murray Kleiner, acquired as devisee, under the will of his brother John J. Kleiner†(Prince George’s County Land Records, Book 1541, Liber 502). Census data from 1930, however, shows that R. Murray Kleiner was the son of the John J. Kleiner who owned this property jointly with his wife Eliza, although he also had a younger brother named John J. Kleiner (1930 Census).
Ownership of the Lakeland properties held by R. Murray and Jesephine G. Kleiner were briefly transferred to Matilda Duvall for part of a day in 1947, but were transferred back the same day. It is unclear what the relationship between the Kleiners and Duvall was, as well as why the deed was rewritten twice on December 27, 1947. The properties transferred were Block 2, lot 5; Block 3, lots 4, 2,3,17,18,14, and 13; Block 13, lots F, G, H, I, J, K, and 11; Block 34, lots 2, 8, and 10; Block 35, lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 8, 1, 14, and 9; Block 41, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; and Block 44, lots 5, 2, 3, 14, and 15.
Block 35, lot 8 ownership was transferred to Mattie and Alex Johnson on September 27, 1952. The manuscript census data for the 1940 and 1950 census data are not yet available, but in an oral history interview, Dr. Joanne Braxton spoke about her grandmother Emma Harrison’s best friend, Mrs. Mattie Johnson, and her husband Mr. Alexander Johnson, who was called “Pop Bud†by people in the community. Dr. Braxton believes that Mrs. Johnson was originally from South Carolina, and remembers that she liked to sit with Mrs. Johnson and hear her stories (Braxton 2009). Mr. Bud Johnson was the garbage collector for the Lakeland community. Mr. Bud would pick up the food garbage in a truck outfitted with gallon size steel drums, and would then feed the garbage to his hogs. This was an important service to the community because there was no garbage pickup from College Park (Edwards and Edwards 2009). Mr. Bud Johnson also had a store where he sold "day-old merchandise" (Sharps-Jones at first Lakeland Presentation 2009)
After the death of Mattie Johnson in 1976, which followed the death of Alex Johnson in 1963, the property was purchased from Robert Johnson, the administrator of Mattie Johnson’s estate, by the city of College Park as part of the urban renewal process. In 1990, ownership of the property was transferred from the City of College Park to the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority.
A map of Lakeland, prepared around the time of urban renewal in 1978, shows one structure on Block 35, Lot 8, and other structure straddling the property line between Lots 7 and 8 (Greenhorne & O’Meara 1978). The College Park Records and building inventories from the time of urban renewal are not currently available for Block 35 but, if they become available, they may be able to shed more light on these structures as well as their occupants.
References Cited:
Braxton, Joanne
2009 Oral History Interview with Dr. Joanne Braxton. Conducted by Portia Barker, Douglas Ishii, and Katie White, in Lakeland Community Heritage Project/UMCP partnership, Item #447, http://otal.umd.edu/omeka/lakeland/items/show/447 (accessed January 13, 2010)
Edwards, James and Pearl Lee Campbell Edwards
2009 Oral History Interview with Mr. James Edwards and
Mrs. Pearl Lee Campbell Edwards. Conducted by Rebecca Lueg and Jocelyn Knauf in Lakeland Community Heritage Project/UMCP partnership, Item #387, http://otal.umd.edu/omeka/lakeland/items/show/387 (accessed January 13, 2010).
Greenhorne & O’Meara, Inc.
1978 Zoning Plat Map of “Lakeland†Urban Renewal Area, City of College Park, Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Lakeland Community Heritage Project
2009 Lakeland: African Americans in College Park. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
Prince George’s County Land Records
1890 Liber JWB5, Folio 486
1906 Liber 37, Folio 15
1909 Liber 52, Folio 37
1910 Liber 59, Folio 277
1941 Liber WEC1, Folio 262
1947a Liber 1007, Folio 392
1947b Liber 1007, Folio 396
1952 Liber 1541, Folio 502
1976 Liber 4670, Folio 942
1990 Liber 7782, Folio 36
R. L. Polk and Co.
1890 Washington DC City Directory. Accessed online through ancestry.com.
1909 Maryland and District of Columbia Gazetteer for 1909-1911, Vol. X. Accessed online through ancestry.com.
United States Bureau of the Census
1930 Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives
and Records Administration.
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