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Glen Echo Park offers an array of social dance events and classes in waltz, swing, contra, [36] [37] and salsa. Dances take place in the historic Spanish Ballroom, the Bumper Car Pavilion, and the climate-controlled Ballroom Annex (The Back Room). About 60,000 people attend Glen Echo Park's dances each year.
The documentary recounts the 1960 protests at Glen Echo Amusement Park and stories of Howard University students who sat on the segregated carousel.
Pages in category "Defunct amusement parks in Maryland" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Glen Echo Park (Maryland) Gwynn Oak Park; M.
Frederick Road Park Baltimore: 1920–1925 Glen Echo Park: Glen Echo: 1911–1968 Reappropriated as cultural and arts center in 1971 Gwynn Oak Park: Woodlawn: 1893–1973 Closed after damage sustained by Hurricane Agnes: Marshall Hall: Charles County: 1890s–1980 Pen Mar Park: Washington County: 1877–1943 Pleasure Island Edgemere: 1947–1962
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The town is known for its Chautauqua cultural events [11] and for Glen Echo Park, a former amusement park that is now a U.S. national park. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, lived in Glen Echo, a streetcar ride from her office, [12] from 1897 until her death in 1912. [8]
In another effort to identify her, officials, with the help of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, exhumed the girl's body from Mount Lebanon Cemetery in May 2016.
The park closed by 1940. After its closure, the area was redeveloped and replaced mostly with apartment buildings. [2] In 1961, African Americans joined with whites to engage in non-violent civil disobedience that finally ended the racist admissions policies of Glen Echo Amusement Park. Today, the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department ...