Lake Roland

From The Sun Feb. 20-26, 1844Feb. 26: We observed on Saturday, in Centre Market, the first installment of hard crabs this season. They came from Norfolk, and it must be confessed that the time, 24th of February, is rather early for these marine visitors.From The Sun Feb. 20-26, 1894Feb. 20: Twenty-five new cars for the Lake Roland Elevated Railway arrived in Baltimore yesterday. The new cars are eighteen feet long and have four-foot platforms at each end.From The Sun Feb. 20-26, 1944Feb. 20: Gilmore D. Clarke and Jay Downer, highway experts engaged in the Federal Bureau of Public Roads to study #F proposed routes for an express highway through Baltimore, recommended in a report made some months ago that the Franklin Street freeway be constructed first, Mayor McKeldin announced yesterday.

Ellinor D. Levering, a Ruxton resident for many years, died Saturday at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center of an ulcer.Miss Levering, who was 74 and lived on Locust Road, retired about 20 years ago after driving students to and from the Roland Park Country School in a station wagon for about 10 years.Earlier, she was a saleswoman for Bond Brothers Photographers and Lycett Inc., the Charles Street stationers.Born in Baltimore and reared in Baltimore and Easton, she was a graduate of the Greenwood School and made her debut at the Bachelors Cotillon.

With fall just around the corner, it's time for the whirlwind of shoreline tidying known as the International Coastal Cleanup . Now in its 27th year, the volunteer effort sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy involves nearly 5,400 different cleanups around the world, including 10 right here in the Baltimore area, from Lake Roland to Fort McHenry and Fort Smallwood. Many are set for Saturday, Sept. 15, but if it's too late to get in on those others are planned over the next few weeks.

Dogs have run free - amok, some would say - in Robert E. Lee Park for years. Residents complained that the park had been "hijacked" by dog people. Even Baltimore County's parks director knew folks referred to the wooded lakeside retreat as "Dog Poop Park. " The spot, hovering on the city/county line, had become the area's favorite dog park - never mind that it wasn't one. But that's all about to change. After a $6.1 million renovation and a two-year closure, Robert E. Lee will reopen Friday, boasting all sorts of refinements - the centerpiece being a legal, fenced dog run that people will have to pay to use. Additionally, the park will become the county's first to hire a small corps of rangers charged with ticketing people whose dogs are caught off leash outside the dog run. Baltimore County Recreation and Parks Director Barry F. Williams hopes the changes will lure non-dog-lovers back to the park, while allowing those with pets to keep using it - but in a legal and controlled way. "The parks are for all people - no one group has exclusive rights over this area," Williams says.

1853: RAILROAD'S NEW NAME An act of the state legislature on March 21, 1853, changed the name of the newly formed Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Rail Road to the Western Maryland Rail Road Co. The company had been formed by investors in a series of meetings at the county courthouse in Westminster the year before. Its founders envisioned a line that would recapture trade in the Cumberland Valley that had been getting diverted to Philadelphia, as well as take advantage of economic growth in Carroll County.

Just below the Falls Road Bridge, 73-year-old Michael Beer stands knee deep in the Jones Falls, slicing through the limbs of an uprooted tree with a chain saw."Try to [cut] some over here," shouts kayaker Hal Perez over the din of the saw, pointing at another branch down in the waters of the creek. Beer nods and gets back to work.Yesterday, the two men cleared parts of the river for today's second annual "Canoe and Kayak the Jones Falls" event, beginning at 11 a.m. just south of the Lake Roland dam in Robert E. Lee Memorial Park, and continuing to south of the 41st Street Bridge.

Walter W. Windsor, a retired accountant and World War II veteran, died of heart disease Dec. 1 at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 89 and had lived in Towson and Mount Washington. Born in Baltimore and raised on Harlem Avenue, he was a 1938 City College graduate. During World War II, he served in the Army and was stationed in England, where he was a bomb loader and worked in telecommunications. He received a business degree from the University of Baltimore and was a certified public accountant.

From The Sun May 23-29, 1843May 23: The ceremony of laying the corner stone of St. Peter's Church, at the corner of Poppleton and Hollins streets, took place yesterday afternoon in the presence of about fifteen thousand people.May 27: A slave, the property of John Enders, of Richmond, Va., was tried on the 22nd, in that city, for stealing a box of tobacco, found guilty and sentenced to be hung on the last Friday in June.From The Sun May 23-29, 1893May 23: The era of rapid transit in Baltimore had one of its biggest days yesterday.

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Services for Elizabeth Rodgers Baird, a long-time social worker, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Govans Presbyterian Church, in the 5800 block of York Road.Mrs. Baird, who was 84, died Thursday at her home in the Bare Hills community near Lake Roland.A native of Baltimore, she was a 1928 graduate of Goucher College and took up further studies at the University of Chicago's School of Social Work.She returned to Baltimore in 1932 and began working for the city's old public welfare office.