Highland Beach, Maryland
| Highland Beach, Maryland | |
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| Town | |
Douglass Summer House, December 2009
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 Location in Maryland |
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| Coordinates: 38°55′55″N 76°27′59″W / 38.93194°N 76.46639°WCoordinates: 38°55′55″N 76°27′59″W / 38.93194°N 76.46639°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | Anne Arundel |
| Founded | 1893 |
| Incorporated | 1922 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.07 sq mi (0.18 km2) |
| • Land | 0.06 sq mi (0.16 km2) |
| • Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2) 14.29% |
| Elevation | 20 ft (6 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 96 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 98 |
| • Density | 1,600.0/sq mi (617.8/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 21403 |
| Area code(s) | 410 |
| FIPS code | 24-38500 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0590467 |
Highland Beach is a town in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 96 at the 2010 census. The town was founded early in the 20th Century by affluent African Americans from Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, looking for a retreat on the Chesapeake Bay. The town's incorporated status gave it a unique standing in empowering it to maintain its own police force. Celebrities with homes here have included Alex Haley, Bill Cosby, and Arthur Ashe. Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Henson, Augusta, Douglass, Langston, and Washington, named for the famous African-Americans.
Highland Beach was founded in the summer of 1893 by Charles Douglass (Frederick Douglass' son) and his wife Laura after they had been turned away from a restaurant at the nearby Bay Ridge resort because of their race [citation needed]. They bought a 40-acre (160,000 m2) tract on the Chesapeake Bay with 500 feet (150 m) of beachfront and turned it into a summer enclave for their family and friends. Their home, the Douglass Summer House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It became a gathering place for upper-class blacks, including many of the well known personages of the age.
Among the residents and guests were Paul Robeson, D.C. municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, visited and would have become a resident had he not died before the house that his son was building for him was completed.
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