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>Morning, Frenz
>Leakin Park
>Hunting Ridge
>Crimea
Friends of Orianda House
Orianda House
CrimeaEstate Leakin Park
Historical Information Center
1901 Eagle Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21207
Richard S.B. Smith, Sr.
Director
The Orianda House was built around 1856
by Thomas Winans. It was a magnificent villa
located on three hundred acres of land in the
western part of Baltimore. Thomas Winans lived
there with his wife Mrs. Thomas Dekay Winans.
Mr. Winans usually called the estatethe Crimea
and the large house Orianda.
Please go to the events page for upcoming and past events.
Oreanda (Ukrainian and Russian: ะัะตะฐะฝะดะฐ; Crimean Tatar: Oreanda) is an urban-type settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.[4]
Oreanda is administratively subordinate to the Livadiya Settlement Council.[2][4] The urban-type settlement's population was 887 as of the 2001 Ukrainian census.[4] Current population: 835 (2014 Census).[5]
>House of Windsor?
Ross Winans (1796-1877)
Nationality: American
Date of Birth: 17 October 1796
Place of Birth: Vernon, Sussex County, New Jersey
Date of Death: 11 April 1877
Place of Death: Baltimore, Maryland
Date of Burial: 12 April 1877
Place of Burial: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ross Winans was the son of William and Mary Winans, who were cousins. He married twice: First to Julia de Kay (born 10 August 1800 โ died 24 May 1850), daughter of Thomas de Kay, a wealthy landowner, and his wife Hannah Blain. He married Julia de Kay on 22 January 1820 and they had five children: Thomas de Kay (1820 - 1878); William Louis (1823 - 1897); Julia de Kay (1825 - 1875); DeWitt Clinton (1838 - 1892); Walter Scott (1840 - 1928). Second to Elizabeth K. West (born 31 July 1807 โ died 29 Mar 1889) who he married on 04 Feb 1854 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound operates in the park.
Just opened a DC branch
https://www.outwardboundchesapeake.org/locations/leakin-park/
Leakin Park, Main Campus
The adjoining Gwynns Falls Park and Leakin Park, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, generally referred to as โGwynns Falls/Leakin Park,โ covers 1,216 acres (492 ha) of contiguous parkland, forming the most extensive park in the city. Gwynns Falls-Leakin is a wilderness, heavily forested and largely left in its natural state. Although surrounded by an urban environment, some areas of the park areso heavily wooded that they give the impression of wilderness. This makes the park a perfect home for our campus, which includes housing for our field staff at the historic Orianda Mansion, our administrative offices and a nine-element high-ropes Challenge Course built by Phoenix Experiential Designs.
Leakin Park tunnel
https://pixels.com/featured/leakin-park-tunnel-earl-walker.html
>https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2009-01-18-0901170155-story.html
IN CITY'S OVERLOOKED UNDERGROUND, 29TH STREET TUNNEL GETS NEW TASK
JACQUES KELLYTHE BALTIMORE SUN
Baltimore is a city built on tunnels. President-elect Barack Obama and his entourage were scheduled to pass through two of our longest railroad underground passages, one in East Baltimore along Hoffman Street, the other lengthy one in West Baltimore that runs under Wilson Street.
I've found that Baltimoreans are fascinated by stories about our dank, underground byways and grow wide-eyed at tales about unused, sealed or hidden chambers. Some of these stories are false; others are merely confused - after all, a well-made tunnel is out of sight on purpose. (I recently heard of a fellow who kayaked under the city in the tunneled Jones Falls.)
I thought my list of tunnels was fairly complete, but then my friend Rudy Fischer called and told me he'd been dropped in a bucket and taken on a tour of a local oddity - the 29th Street tunnel under Sisson Street.
Interdasting Nixon Commie references here
>unleashed
>breathe life
>dead place
>Nixon in China
>https://baltimoreinnerspace.blogspot.com/2007/02/leakin-park.html
It's finally happening. After 40 years, the stalemate has at last been broken. Leakin Park is now being torn up, hills are being flattened and trees are being bulldozed to make way for a major new transportation project.
The construction fury was unleashed by a "Nixon in China" type of event. Just as it took an inveterate anti-commie crusader like President Nixon to open Red China to the western world, it took the tree hugging environmentalists to agree to scorch some earth to open Leakin Park to western Baltimore.
Here's the punch line. The major transportation project in question is the Gwynns Falls Trail. This may be "only" a meandering recreational bikeway that will at best see very little commuter action, but it's a serious multi-million dollar construction project causing serious multi-million dollar disruption of the earth.
Hopefully it all will be worth it and will tap the vast potential of vast Leakin Park to provide recreational opportunities and breathe life and appreciation into what hasbeen a dead place, whose reputation is mainly as areceptacle for dead bodies.