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Bowie, MD - History
We would like to provide the residents of Bowie a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Bowie Home page. The Bowie Home page provides as much information as possible on Bowie. Knowing Bowie’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Bowie’s Home page, you will also find Bowie’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Bowie has a population of 58158. 47.2% of Bowie’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.8 are female. 50.1% of Bowie is married and 85% own their own home. The Average Home price is $349,614, and the average rent is $1,937. Household median income in Bowie is $116,796, and the individual median income is $53,765. Bowie’s Ethnic is the following: Black(56.4%), White(31.9%), Hispanic(7.5%), Multiple(4.9%), Asian(3.8%), Other(2.8%), Native(0.2%).
Bowie has an area of 16 square miles (41 km2) and about 50,000 residents with nearly 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) set aside as parks or open space. It has 72 ball fields, three community centers, an ice arena at Allen Pond Park, the Bowie Town Center, the 800-seat Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, a 150-seat theatrical playhouse, a golf course, and three museums. Bowie's rail town history is on display via the Huntington Railroad Museum, within the local rail station's restored railroad buildings.
In 2006, the city reopened the Bowie Building Association building, a small brick and block structure constructed circa 1930, as a Welcome Center; it originally housed the Bowie Building Association, which helped finance much of the community's early development. Bowie is home to the Bowie Baysox, a Class AA Eastern League professional baseball team affiliated with the Baltimore Orioles.
The Baysox moved to Bowie from Hagerstown in 1993 and began to play at Prince George's Stadium in 1994. In 2015, the Baysox captured their first Eastern League Championship, defeating the Reading Fightin Phils in five games. The city operates a senior citizens center and a gymnasium for community programs.
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