CANCELLED In light of the recent coronavirus pandemic and restrictions in place by the President and our Governor, OHS has made the decision to cancel our April Open House and any other activities that are planned or may arise from March 14th through April 30th.   We will assess the coronavirus situation on May 1st and make a decision on continued activities to include our May Open House. We hope everyone takes the precautions health experts have been sharing and…

The Odenton Heritage Society will mark Odenton’s 150th anniversary reopening our museum during our Open House on Sunday, August 1, 2021.  It was on August 2, 1871 that the U. S. Post Office Department established the Odenton post office at a new railroad junction under construction near the present MARC station.  Trains began running through the junction on July, 1872, and Odenton’s identity – a railroad town named for Baltimore and Potomac Railroad President Oden Bowie – was complete. The OHS…

In our September Open House, the Odenton Heritage Society will be remembering the 9/11 terrorist attack and paying tribute to all those who were affected on that day twenty years ago. We have a special display in our museum honoring Lt. Jonas Martin Panik, a 1997 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, who lived in Piney Orchard. Lt. Panik worked as a naval intelligence officer in the Pentagon and lost his life when the terrorists attacked the Pentagon on…