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Bowie is a city in Prince George’s County, Maryland, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 58,329. Bowie has grown from a little railroad End to the largest municipality in Prince George’s County, and the fifth most populous city and third largest city by area in the U.S. state of Maryland. In 2014, CNN Money ranked Bowie 28th in its Best Places to Live (in the United States) list.

The city of Bowie owes its existence to the railway. In 1853, Colonel William Duckett Bowie obtained a charter from the Maryland legislature to construct a rail pedigree into Southern Maryland. In 1869, the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Company began the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to Southern Maryland, terminating in Pope’s Creek. The area had already been dotted with small farms and large tobacco plantations in an economy based upon agriculture and slavery. In 1870, Ben Plumb, a land speculator and developer, sold building lots with hint to the railroad junction and named the unity Huntington City. By 1872, the stock was completed, together once a “spur” to Washington, D.C. and the complete line through Southern Maryland was completed in 1873.

In 1880, Huntington City was rechartered as Bowie, named for Colonel Bowie’s son and business co-conspirator Oden Bowie, the former Governor of Maryland and then-president of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad. In the in advance days the land was subdivided by developers into exceeding 500 residential building lots, to Make a large town site at a junction of the Baltimore and Potomac’s main descent to southern Maryland, and the branch extraction to Washington, D.C.