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Riverdale Park, formerly known and often referred to as Riverdale, is a semi-urban town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, a suburb in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The population was 6,955 as of the 2010 U.S. Census.
intro. Riversdale, The Calvert Mansion. The history of Riverdale Park begins not with the town itself, but with one of Maryland's founding families. In 1801, Henry Joseph Stier, a Belgian aristocrat, established his plantation on a large tract of land north of Bladensburg.
The Riverdale Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Riverdale Park, Prince George's County, Maryland. The community developed starting in 1889, around the B & O passenger railroad station, as an early railroad suburb northeast of Washington, D.C.
The West Riverdale Historic District is a national historic district located at Riverdale Park, Prince George's County, Maryland, a railroad suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C.
Riverdale in 1900 had more than 50 houses, most clustered within walking distance of the handsome Victorian-style B&O station erected by the Riverdale Park Company. The arrival in 1899 of the City & Suburban Railway meant that the community's residents now had two convenient means of traveling into Washington.
The development of Riverdale was part of a national trend of growth in the rural areas surrounding older urban centers. Even before the town appeared, there were clear signs that change was coming to the sections of Prince George's County that bordered the District of Columbia.
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The West Riverdale Historic District is a national historic district located at Riverdale Park, Prince George's County, Maryland, a railroad suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C. The neighborhood was appended to the town of Riverdale Park soon after it was laid out and platted in 1906, and later enlarged in 1937.
