History of Glenwood Country Club Park

Glenwood Country Club Park was established in 1960. It has been home to many fine families over the years and will continue to be a peaceful haven to live and raise a family not far from the hustle and bustle of Bel Air and Baltimore.

Many children who grew up here in the 60's and 70's have parents still living in the community. Some have also chosen to purchase a home and raise their own families here as well.

The community was built in stages as is representative of the different types and styles of homes you see scattered around the neighborhood. The original houses built in the development used Butler stone and were ranchers or split level.

Here is our Glenwood historical timeline:

10,000 B.C. - Native Americans were known to live in Maryland by this date.

1588 - Captain Vincente Gonzales was the first Spanish explorer to reach the head of the Chesapeake Bay.

1600 - Algokian-language Native Americans were displaced by the Susquehannock Tribe around 1600 AD.

1608 - Captain John Smith (of Pocahontas fame, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_John_Smith) explored the Bay in 1608 and provided the first map that indicated some knowledge of the upper bay. Captain John Smith is usually credited with discovering Harford County. Reference: Morrison, R. and Hansen, R., Charting the Chesapeake, Maryland State Archives, p9, 1990.

1684 - Land to Basil Brooke as "My Lord's Gift". Basil was 14 at the time the 1728 survey bearing his name was drafted and he didn't become owner of the land until 1735. It is most likely that John Brooke first obtained the land and then willed it to his son Basil. It's interesting to note that the 1728 survey map shows My Lords Gift at about the same size as neighboring Brooms Bloom, recorded as being 1000 acres.

1757 - Basil Brooke passed, distributing a portion of the land to the following:

Ruth Billingsley. My Lords Gift, pt, 236 acres. HA Harford Upper Hundred, p. 107. MSA S 1161-6-9 1/4/5/49

John Copeland. My Lords Gift, pt, 116 acres. HA Harford Upper Hundred, p. 108. MSA S 1161-6-9 1/4/5/49

John Ellis. My Lords Gift, pt, 208 acres. HA Harford Upper Hundred, p. 108. MSA S 1161-6-9 1/4/5/49

Godfrey Watters. My Lords Gift, pt, 100 acres. HA Harford Upper Hundred, p. 113. MSA S 1161-6-9 1/4/5/49

Maryland Archives lists multiple landowners, holding 1029 acres of My Lords Gift, as listed in a 1783 Tax Assessment, including James Amos who owned 208 acres.

Basil's Will makes no reference to My Lords Gift, but assigns 1189 acres of land called His Lordships Gift to be sold in 1757.

1773 - Harford County formed from the eastern part of Baltimore County.

1796 - James Amos purchased 460 acres referred to as My Lords Gift. He created the stone house and farm that would become Glenangus Farms, and the family sold it in 1874.

1804 - The "main house", part of the 460 acre farm of which Glenwood was a part, was built. It was then called "My Lord's Gift". It was built as the showplace of a 460 acre farm assembled in the late eighteenth century by James Amos, a descendent of William Amos of Mount Soma.

1840 - James Amos died and willed the properly to his brother Abraham. The Amoses, who grew wealthy thanks to grain farming (and thanks to the nearby Patterson Mill) eventually sold the farm in 1874.

1878 - Map showing Henry Farnandis owning all the land from Route 22 (Churchville Rd.) to Patterson Mill Road. It is not clear how Fernandis was able to consolidate all the land.