Flowers for Bowie, MD

Bowie was assembled in pieces, and flower routes here still trace the seams. Old Town, up by the railroad tracks and the National Capital Radio and Television Museum, keeps the feel of the 1870s junction settlement where the city began. A few miles south, the Belair Mansion grounds remember the stud farm that raised Gallant Fox and Omaha — the only father-and-son pair of Triple Crown winners — before Levitt and Sons bought the estate in the late 1950s and planted thousands of colonials on streets that share a first letter, section by section. Finding the right K-street or Y-street address means knowing those sections; crossing town means MD 450, MD 197, and US 301, since Bowie spreads over four ZIP codes from Fairwood in the west to Woodmore in the east. Bowie State University on Jericho Park Road and the retail cluster at Bowie Town Center anchor the two ends of a typical afternoon loop.

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