Picture This: Catonsville Casino Was State’s First Country Club
The rambling wooden structure stood on the site now occupied by the Bloomsbury Community Center.
Prior to the Rolling Road Golf Club, which opened with a nine-hole golf course in 1919, the summer residents of Catonsville enjoyed a country club set on 18 acres of property sold for the purpose by John L. Glenn, one of the community’s largest landholders. While it was known as the Catonsville Casino, there was no gambling. Indeed, there was no golf either. When the club opened on May 12, 1894, The Sun reported: “The grounds cover eight acres and are situated near Catonsville, fronting on Bloomsbury lane, at the terminus of the Catonsville Short Line Railroad. They are laid off for baseball, cricket, tennis and lacrosse, with a winter tennis court made of crushed stone. The cost of grading the grounds and of erecting the Casino was $42,…
Sharon Stanton
11:21 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
attended the junior high school - early 1960 and remember having to go outside to the cafeteria for lunch and it was housed in that building. Article is fascinating. Thank you. more ›