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J. Chesley Mack, sometimes referred to as the unofficial mayor of Lakeland, operated Mack’s Market on Rhode Island Avenue. It was a general store with an ice cream counter and billiard parlor on the main floor, and rental apartments on the second…

As is evident from the many pictures in this case from the Reveille, the Maryland Agricultural College’s yearbook, and, once the institution became the University of Maryland, the Terrapin Yearbook, White students on campus engaged broadly and…

As is evident from the many pictures in this case from the Reveille, the Maryland Agricultural College’s yearbook, and, once the institution became the University of Maryland, the Terrapin Yearbook, White students on campus engaged broadly and…

A figure in Ku Klux Klan regalia holding a torch on the page introducing the section on Greek Life at Maryland State College in 1920? Yes. The Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its power in the 1920s, and Maryland and its State College were by no…

May Day festivities were a prominent celebration each year at the Maryland State College and the University of Maryland. University Archives retain photographs of such celebrations including maypole dances, diaphanous costumes reminiscent of Roman…

"Lakeland was a very tight knit community. Not only did we all know each other, I now realize that we knew each other for generations, because the same family members that came originally between 1890 and 1900, descendants of those families were…

"[Lakeland was] very unified, because we couldn't do anything. And somebody else saw it, they will call your parents and tell your parents. So we knew that whatever we did, if anybody did anything wrong, they called and tell your parents. So they…