Good Luck, Maryland

Good Luck
Former CDP
Good Luck

Location within the state of Maryland

Coordinates: 38°59′36″N 76°49′57″W / 38.99333°N 76.83250°W / 38.99333; -76.83250Coordinates: 38°59′36″N 76°49′57″W / 38.99333°N 76.83250°W / 38.99333; -76.83250
Country United States
State Maryland
County Prince Georges
Population (1970)
 • Total 10,584
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 20706
FIPS code 24-34075[1]
GNIS feature ID 1714391[2]

Good Luck was a Census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland during the 1970 United States Census.[3] The population in 1970 was 10,584.[4] The census area split to create newly delineated CDPs of Goddard & Glenn Dale in 1980.[5] The ZIP code serving the area is 20706.

It takes its name from "Good Luck," a parcel of 780 acres of land on the west side of the Patuxent River patented in colonial Maryland.[6] In 1871, John Glenn and Edmund B. Duvall platted the village (as Glennville) soon after the arrival of the Washington Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad (between the national capital and Bowie, Maryland. In 1899, one of the oldest remaining schoolhouses in Prince George's County, Maryland was built for the farming community, near the Methodist Episcopal Church. The "Good Luck Schoolhouse" or "Glenn Dale Colored School", burned in 1907 and expanded in 1915, but deteriorated and was abandoned in 1935 after construction of two other schools nearby, was converted into a private residence in 1935 and designated a local historic site by the Maryland National Capital Planning Commission.[7]

In 1934, the Glenn Dale Hospital, a tuberculosis sanitarium, was built in the community. It closed in 1981 due to the asbestos used in its construction. Various proposals have been made for the site, some for its development, another for its historic preservation.

Geography

Located at 38.9934436 north and 76.8324714 west,[8] the census area of Good Luck was adjacent to the Goddard Space Flight Center and the city of Greenbelt.[9] The land area of the CDP was 3.2 square miles and a population density of 3,308 per sq. mi.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Good Luck, Maryland. Roadside Thoughts. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  2. ↑ Good Luck, Maryland. Roadside Thoughts. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  3. ↑ 1970 U.S. census: Maryland. Retrieved 2013-08-29
  4. ↑ 1970 U.S. census: Maryland. Retrieved 2013-08-29
  5. ↑ 1980 Census of Population: Supplementary report. Population and land area of Urbanized Areas of the United States: 1980 & 1970. United States Census Bureau. 1983. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  6. ↑ Doliante, Sharon J. (1998). Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families. Clearfield Co. p. 56.
  7. ↑ http://www.mncppcapps.org/planning/HistoricCommunitiesSurvey/Documentations/PG%2070-087%20Good%20Luck%20Schoolhouse/PG%2070-087%20Good%20Luck%20Schoolhouse%20MIHP.pdf
  8. ↑ USGS Place Name: Good Luck (historical). MyTopo. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  9. ↑ 1970 Census of Population: United States, Alabama-Mississippi. Retrieved 2010-08-30
  10. ↑ 1970 census of population. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
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