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The Baltimore Evening Sun, January 8, 1941
Your Town
When Imwold's 3-Horse Sleigh Bucked Drifts on Harford Road
Old-timer Recalls Days of Farming, Before Village Streets Crept Into the
Rural Scene, and He was a member of Three Volunteer Fire Departments
(page of Pictures on Page 16) Part II
(This is the second of two articles dealing with the history and
development of the Harford road neighborhood.) By Lee McCardell
Samuel G. Imwold, who lives on a 32½-acre farm beside the Hillen road,
just below the Mount Pleasant golf course, is one of the older natives of
the Harford road section, whose memory goes back to days when that
thoroughfare was a dusty turnpike from which neither steep grades nor
sharp kinks had been removed. Dusty, that is, in the summer time. In
the winter it was frozen hard, often snowbound, although the Imwolds were
never snowbound. The Imwolds had a three-horse sleigh that could buck a
path through the heaviest snowdrift.
Samuel Imwold saw the great estates of the Harford road dissolve, as
swelling ranks of brand-new cottages laid siege to old, austere mansion
houses. He saw lush meadows, meandering streams and rolling hills
disappear beneath an expanding network of city streets, water pipes, gas
mains. He watched horse cars, then trolly cars, and finally automobiles
and motor busses annihilate distance until the Harford road, as he had
known it, had disappeared completely.
Mr. Imwold's Boyhood
Mr. Imwold, now 84 years old, was one of eight boys born on his father's
farm, west of the Hillen road, about half a mile above Lake Montebello.
His father, John Imwold, had immigrated to Baltimore from Germany. The
son was educated at Emmanuel Church Parochial School, down on Caroline
street, between Baltimore and Lombard streets, where instruction was in
German. Not only did he walk from his home to school, a distance of
three miles, every day. He also carried a gallon of milk, a present from
his parents, to the pastor of Emmanuel Church every morning.
On Saturday he fished for trout in Herring Run, or in Tiffany's Run, a
smaller stream that flowed through a hollow now filled by Lake
Montebello. Sometimes, on a Sunday afternoon, his father took him over
to the park around Frederick Webber's brewery at Lauraville, where other
German settlers of the neighborhood gathered. When not in school the boy
worked on the farm, hauled wheat and rye to Read's mill to be ground into
flour. (Rye bread was preferred to wheat in the Imwold family.) Growing
up, Samuel Imwold became the manager of six farms on Montebello, the
Garrett estate, then in its golden age.
Old Italian Villa
Mr. and Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett occupied General Smith's imposing old
Italian villa, whose entrance was on the Harford road where the Alameda
now begins, and whose grounds were covered with magnificent oaks. Part
of the enormous stone stable behind the villa — there were 198 stalls in
that stable — was used as a dairy. Part was given over to thoroughbred
trotters. A private race course, with a judge's pavilion, was laid out
near the stable beside the Hillen road. A field fire destroyed the
pavilion several years ago, but the stables were there until 1936.
The Garretts moved out of the old villa in the 1870's because, it was
said, they found the place a little depressing. Thereafter it was
vacant. The neglected lawns were overgrown with weeds and briars.
Shrubbery ran wild. The old house, half hidden in a maze of unclipped
ampelopsis and wistaria, acquired a reputation for being haunted. In
1907 it was torn down but not until after its architectural details had
been sketched and photographed by architects. The newer Garrett mansion
near Arlington avenue was destroyed by fire in 1929. But its stately
entrance gates, leading nowhere, are still standing.
Imwold Farm Venture
Meanwhile, Samuel Imwold had been succeeded as manager of the Garrett
farms by Michael Garrett, who now lives at 3600 White avenue. Mr. Imwold
went to farming for himself, leasing a number of places, including the
Garrett Fair Oaks Farm, off the upper Harford road. He bought up dairy
cattle, mostly Jerseys, acquiring a herd of more than a hundred, and
entered the dairy business, establishing milk routes through what was
then northeast Baltimore, in the vicinity of the Northeastern Police
Station.
Fifty-two years ago he moved to Love Pentz Farm, his present home on the
Hillen road. Here he and his wife raised a family of six boys and one
girl. The whole family helped with the dairy, no one-man job with all
those cows to be milked. Mr. Imwold says that his wife, whose hands were
unusually small, was the champion milker of them all. She is dead now.
And he has retired. But the dairy which he founded is still conducted by
three of his sons, Howard, John and Stewart.
Auto Replaces Sleigh
Its route are now served by motor delivery trucks. But the three-horse
sleigh, in which Imwold dairy milk always went through, despite snow and
winter weather in a pre-motor age, is still out in a shed behind the farm
house. Its great basket, big enough the seat eighteen people when used
for sleighing parties, was made to order. Mr. Imwold built the under
carriage and the runners himself.
Another antique conveyance, a barouche that once belonged to the Garrett
family, sits in his barn. Mr. Imwold paid $3 for this elegant vehicle,
complete with beveled carnage lamps, at a sale at Montebello years ago.
For a time he used it as his own family carriage.
Volunteer Firemen
When the Harford turnpike was coming of age, Mr. Imwold served as member
of three volunteer fire companies, those of Lauraville, Hamilton and
Parkville. Hamilton had begun as a rival village of Lauraville.
Parkville was a development of Lavender Hill, Col. George P. Kane's
country seat, by Simon J. Martinet. After the six Imwold boys grew up
and acquired firemen's hats as members of the Lauraville company, the
family constituted a complete fire-fighting unit within itself. The
father's most vivid recollection of his career as a volunteer concerns a
fire on his own farm.
"Bill Potter and I were shooting a game of pool in a tavern at
Lauraville," he says. "I'll never forget it — I was playing the 6-ball,
when the alarm bell began to ring. We ran out and found that the fire
was at my place. We could hear one of my boys, John, hollering away over
there. We jumped into Potter's buggy and raced over to my place as hard
as the horse could tear — and when we got here we found it wasn't
anything but an old poplar tree down in the woods!"
President of Political Club
As a result of his services as a volunteer fireman, and his long
residence in the locality, Mr. Imwold became known as "Captain." For six
years he was president of the Harford road Democratic Club, and in 1923,
after that section had been annexed to the city, he was a Democratic
candidate for the City Council, campaigning in a bunting-draped two-ton
truck with a ten-piece brass band and his sons as assistant speakers.
In his present retirement, Mr. Imwold does pretty much as he pleases,
walking about the countryside along the Hillen road, paying weekly visits
every Saturday night to a barber shop over on the Harford road and
usually dropping into the movies afterward. He might have rounded out
his days as a hotel manager instead of a retired dairyman. For Mr.
Garrett asked him, when a young man, to take over the management of both
the Eutaw House and the Howard House, which he owned. But Mr. Imwold
turned down the offer.
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He was twin of Katherine.
Baltimore News-Post, November 15, 1942
Funeral services for Samuel G. Imwold, one of the oldest residents of the
Hamilton area, who died Wednesday from a heart ailment at the age of
eighty-four, will be held tomorrow in funeral parlors in the 5200 block
Harford Road.
Mr. Imwold was founder and president of the Hamilton Farm Dairy until his
retirement two years ago, and also founder and first president of the
Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department when that section was still in the
county. In addition he was founder of the Harford Road Democratic Club.
He is survived by five sons, John L., Howard C., Stewart, Samuel and
Harry Imwold, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Beale, all of Baltimore. Burial
will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
(from the Baltimore Evening Sun)
Samuel Godfrey Imwold died at age 84 of a heart attack. He was manager
of six farms on Montebello (an estate owned by T. Harrison Garrett).
in 1899, he moved to Love Pentz farm on Hillen Road. He served as a
member of Lauraville, Hamilton and Parkville volunteer fire companies.
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