THE QUESTION: COLUMBIA HAS SNOWDEN RIVER PARKWAY. WHERE IS SNOWDEN RIVER?
The river hasn't moved, but historical research suggests the names of the waterways have, along with the people who live near them.
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FOR THE RECORD - Sunday's Community Q & A feature about the origin of the name "Snowden River Parkway" incorrectly stated the river where the Colonial-era Snowden family raised tobacco. The family owned and farmed land along the Patuxent River. The Sun regrets the error.
According to research done by Robin Emrich of the Columbia Archives, the Snowden family was a large, wealthy clan of tobacco growers who farmed both sides of what is now called the Little Patuxent River in the early 1720s.
At the time, according to records of several court cases she found in the online archives of the Maryland Historical Society, there was a waterway called "Snowden's River," and, although the references are a bit vague, it is likely now called the Little Patuxent River, which flows through Columbia.
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