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Bowie, city, Prince George’s county, central Maryland, U.S., an eastern suburb of Washington, D.C. The first significant settlement at the site was Belair, an estate built about 1745 for Governor Samuel Ogle. A small farming community called Huntington developed there. In the 1870s the site was chosen as a major rail junction, which spurred the town’s growth. It was renamed Bowie in 1880 for Oden Bowie, governor of Maryland (1867–72), and incorporated in 1916. Bowie’s population stayed small until the late 1950s, when a developer bought the land of the Belair estate. Over the next two decades several thousand homes ...(100 of 181 words)

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