Talk:Hyattsville/Oldcontent
Hyattsville, Riverdale, Greenbelt and Mount Rainier are adjacent cities in the Maryland suburbs of the Washington, DC Area.
The area along Rhode Island Ave. (Old Route 1) includes numrous tiny municipalities around the B & O Railroad tracks, and is commonly referred to as Port Towns. This includes Mount Rainier, a bohemian / immigrant suburb of closely packed homes, and several adjacent towns that are sandwiched between College Park (Maryland) and Washington D.C., straddling the Anacostia River with Hyattsville in the center.
The area used to be an industrial harbor in the 19th Century before the Anacostia River silted up. Several of these towns, particularly Bladensburg, remain primarily industrial, unlike most of the D.C. area (Washington D.C.'s top manufacturing export is paper: publications printed by the Federal Government).
Also adjacent are the historic railroad town of Riverdale Park and the strip-oriented Little Mexico.
Because most of the D.C. area's Hispanic immigrants are Honduran and El Salvadorean, the Kenilworth Avenue boulevard north of Route 1 in Riverdale is unique for its concentration of specifically Mexican immigrants and authentic Mexican restaurants.
The municipalities covered by this article (all in Prince George's County, Maryland) include:
- Hyattsville — the largest city south of College Park, Maryland
- Mount Rainier — a working-class, ultra-liberal enclave on the edge of Northeast D.C.
- Little Mexico — part of Riverdale along Kenilworth Ave. north of Bladensburg
- Greenbelt — a pre-WWII planned suburb created as an experiment in cooperative housing by the Roosevelt Administration
Most everything of interest is in these four towns.
Additional towns with few sights include:
- Riverdale Park — a small railroad town located next to Hyattsville south of College Park (Maryland)
- Brentwood — a sister city to Mount Rainier
- North Brentwood — an enclave of Brentwood
- Colmar Manor — on the other side of the tracks from Mount Rainier
- Cottage City — indistinguishable from Colmar Manor
- Bladensburg — a major industrial suburb of D.C.
- Chillum — a mostly African-American suburb of Hyattsville
- West Hyattsville — an area of postwar shopping centers scheduled for "town center" redevelopment