Glassmanor is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County

Prince George's County, Maryland

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 in the State

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 of Maryland

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 in the United States of America

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. Because it is not formally incorporated, it has no official boundaries, but the United States Census Bureau

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 has defined a census-designated place

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 consisting of Glassmanor and the adjacent community of Oxon Hill

Oxon Hill, Maryland

Oxon Hill is part of the Oxon Hill-Glassmanor census-designated place in southern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Oxon Hill is a suburb of Washington, DC located southeast of the downtown district and east of Alexandria, Virginia...

, designated Oxon Hill-Glassmanor

Oxon Hill-Glassmanor, Maryland

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, for statistical purposes.

The original Glassmanor apartments were built about 1950 by the Glassman company just outside the border of southeast Washington, D.C.

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In the mid-1950s the Eastover shopping center was built across the highway, followed by other adjoining apartment projects in the 1960s. U.S. Senator

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 George McGovern

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, who was the Democratic Party

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's presidential candidate in 1972, lived briefly in Glassmanor while a freshman Congressman (source: biographical article in the Washingtonian magazine). The area has undergone tremendous demographic and social changes since that time.