Jay’s design also includes historic images of the Laurel Railroad Station, built in 1884, and coincidentally the “Save Our Stop” campaign was a current effort by residents and others to prevent the station from being moved one mile north to Laurel Park. Jay was not aware of the “Save Our Stop” campaign when he included the images of the station in his design. The display points out the importance of the station to local history and helped to draw further attention to the issue and to hopefully save the station stop. For information about this campaign, contact H. Edward Ricks, president of the Laurel City Council at 301-725-5300 (ericks@laurel.md.us).
The window design can be viewed anytime from the outside at 335 Main Street, Laurel, Maryland. For information about the window display of local historic places contact Jay Williams at 301-937-8633 (jwdc@jwdc.com).
Click here to see an
enlargement of this window project.
Click on these five images we used on this project
to see them in more detail. Also the see
the Identification panels that we had placed
on each of the five images.
The photos below were provided to us by Shirley Ellis Siegel who, at the age of 90 in 2014, stopped by here with her sons to visit. The small 1925 photo shows Ida Ellis holding her daughter, Shirley, as a baby. Along side are Shirley’s siblings Bertha and Leon. Leon Ellis took over the store’s business soon after WWII until 1955.
The larger photo below shows the owners, Edward P. Ellis and his wife Ida, inside their early grosery store. Edward became a central figure in the Laurel business community and in 1932, he was one of the founding charter members of today’s Laurel Lion’s Club.