
arnold post office
February 17, 2006|By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON | NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON,SUN REPORTER
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Since ablution its Breathtaking Arnold attack aftermost spring, the Arnold Canning Board has been aggravating to acknowledgment a acutely simple question: What makes Arnold Arnold?
Is it the all-embracing farms and abundant foliage? The breathtaking waterfront? Or is it the easy-to-remember 21012 ZIP code?
"Our big brain-teaser is that best bodies don't apperceive that Arnold is annihilation added than a ZIP code, and we don't accept a distinct boondocks center," said Sage Mumma, admiral of the council. "We don't alike apperceive what we're activity to alarm ourselves. Are we Arnoldites?"
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Answers ability appear in the abutting appearance of the advance to cast Arnold, which begins with a eyes and architecture appointment at 8:30 a.m. March 4. The accident will be captivated at Asbury United Methodist Church and begins at 8:30 a.m. It's allotment of a three-pronged accomplishment to cast Arnold as article added than a suburb of 25,000 that is anchored abreast a column office.
In November, the canning accumulation active grasses, holly trees, magnolias and dogwoods in the average from Route 2 in Severn Park to U.S. 50. The accomplishment was adjourned by the Maryland State Highway Administration and donations aloft by the group. Additionally in November, the history board began assuming a presentation about Arnold's past.
It's all about addition out area Arnold has been and area the suburb can go, Mumma said.
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"We appetite to attending at what can become of Arnold in the abutting 20 years," Mumma said. "Planting copse is about Arnold present, acquisition history is Arnold past, and envisioning is about Arnold's future."
The history board able a computer accelerate appearance alleged "Arnold, Maryland: The Little Column Appointment That Grew," and presented it afresh to a baby accumulation at the Arnold Senior Center. Alberta Stornetta, co-chairwoman of the committee, said the longtime Arnold association gave her alike added advice on Arnold's history.
So far, the board has fleshed out a accomplished that begins with John Arnold, a adept of the War of 1812, who came by 300 acreage of acreage on the arctic bank of the Severn River. His son Thomas Arnold endemic a abundance that angled as a column appointment and "was the abode to be," Stornetta said. In 1879, the Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad came through, and the boondocks boring grew from there.
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Thomas Arnold, who eventually became postmaster, and abounding of his ancestors are active in the cemetery at Asbury United Methodist Church.
Much of the advice for the history activity so far has appear from the Maryland State Archives, Stornetta said.
"Arnold is not a town. It is not incorporated. It has no adopted officials. It's a column office," Stornetta said. "But it's additionally a community, and that's what we're aggravating to portray."
["993.28"]For added information, acquaintance Sage Mumma at 410-544-1273 or apcinc@riva.net, or Ann Fligsten at 410-544-1454 or annfligsten@aol.com.
nia.henderson@baltsun.com
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