“Mr. Dogge ran the first dairy in Lansdowne and delivered milk around town to those who didn’t own cows”.  Circa 1900 From Lansdowne Improvement Association Celebrating 100 booklet .

“In 1916, Scott Hull opened the first bus service in Lansdowne.  Robert Townsend operated a jitney bus to Morrell Park where connection was made to the streetcar to Baltimore. The Kuechle family also operated the early buses”.  From Lansdowne Improvement Association Celebrating 100 booklet.

“ . . . was another grocery store called Goldberg’s. According to my mother, this was originally a hotel.” From Lansdowne Improvement Association Celebrating 100 booklet.

“In the early days of the village [Mr & Mrs] Haberkorn conducted a hotel there . . .”  From a newspaper article in 1934.

“Mr. and Mrs. Stone who resided on the corner of Charleston Ave & Clyde Ave sold notions, bread, and candy. Mr. and Mrs. Amos used to visit them sometimes at night, and they sat in the kitchen singing hymns. The only light was the moon shining on the floor.  Several of us children, ages ten and eleven, used to visit them at times, and we would sit in the kitchen with them and sing. We enjoyed it very much and all the way home we sang hymns.” From The History of Lansdowne Page 18.

“In 1916 the Boy Scout hall was built on First Avenue and later became the Democratic Club Hall” From The History of Lansdowne Page 11.

“The new housing developments of Hi-Lans (1953), Riverview (1957), and Patapsco Terrace (1961), greatly increased population.

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        The Sulpher Spring Road railroad crossing was eliminated and a pedestrian tunnel built in 1964. 

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New additions to the community were: Lake in the woods [Ghetto], Lansdowne Shopping Center on Hollins Ferry Road, Patapsco Village Shopping Plaza at Annapolis Road, the Town and Country Hall . . .

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The Lansdowne Elementary brick school on Clyde Avenue was demolished in 1987 and a new apartment building for senior citizens was later erected in its place. It was called Coursey Station after Lansdowne first railroad station, which was named for early settlers named “Coursey” From The History of Lansdowne Page 13.

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The [1918] Spanish Influenza was a terrible time during WWI. You would meet a person in good health and before the week was up, you would hear that they had died. Whole families were wiped out. I can remember taking [floral] designs to houses where as many as three people would be laid out in coffins.  As I look back, I realize this was hard for a 12-year old kid. I once counted the times I had acted as a pallbearer and counted 60 times that I could remember. This was not good for me to see so much death. I remember carrying out a pretty young 15 year old schoolgirl and looking back to see her parents tragic faces at the window, too ill with the flu to go to their only daughter’s funeral . . .

I was so worried about catching the [Spanish] flu, I would take a deep breath before I entered the house and tried to hold it until I could unpin the floral design and get out--which of course was impossible. My cousin, Ernest, was one of the first to get the flu--before it was even given a name. I used to read to him, but miraculously, did not get it.

We had old Dr Ruhl in Lansdowne--a typical old country doctor who used to drive around in a horse and buggy. He never lost a patient. Unfortunately, old Doc had a drinking problem, so many people called out city doctors who were [only] half so fortunate.  Memories of Leonard M Bahr written in 1980

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From an e-mail on 7/13/15 from Maria S:

“My family members have been Lansdowne residents for over a century... my great-great grandparents, Guiseppe and Maria Grazia Battaglia, and their large extended family (the Glorioso, Vinci and Marino families) lived on Gehb Avenue (several of their descendants still do). They purchased the land and large brick farmhouse from George Gehb in 1913 shortly after their emigration to Maryland from Cefalu, Sicily, and operated a truck farm in the property where Landowne Middle School (and part of the high school) are now located. They were members of St. Clement parish, and were the only Italian residents in the area - for many years Gehb Avenue was jokingly referred to in the community as ‘The Littlest Italy’.”

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