Bladensburg, MD MLK 2023

 

 

Some neighbors and I organized a clean up along the bike trail in Bladensburg, MD.

 

Historical note: Slave  labor built the prosperity of the region, a center for tobacco production in Colonial America. The Bladensburg port, once a port for seafaring ships, became impassible to large ships in the 1830s when tobacco farming led ti soil runoff that occluded the Anacostia river.

 

 

Benjamin Rosenthal

Research Leader, Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory