10420 43RD AVE

This spacious Colonial single family home offers gleaming hardwood floors and freshly painted walls throughout. As soon as you walk in, you are embraced by a warm and welcoming living area accompanied by a cozy fireplace. The sunlit kitchen has well-maintained cabinetry, a gas stove, and stainless steel appliances. This open and airy home has 3 spacious bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and a covered sunroom with an exposed brick wall that never goes out of style. NEWLY renovated primary bedroom with en-suite full bath. The neighboring secondary bedroom wall was removed to create a much larger and desirable primary suite. Nice hardwood floors beneath the upper level carpet. The bright finished basement has a vast entertainment space, and the rear exterior door leads out to the beautifully manicured backyard- perfect for hosting guests or relaxing. The separate shed provides ample storage, and the spacious deck is great for casual outdoor dining or enjoying the sunshine. Don't miss this wonderful opportunity!

About the neighborhood

Beltsville’s history dates back to 1649, when the land was part of an 80,000-acre land grant given to Richard Snowden I by Lord Baltimore of England. Snowden and his family were planters who established large plantations on which they built comfortable manor homes. Soon after, other settlers moved into the area, but they were farmers who could only afford a few acres of land and whose families lived in small cabins. The principal crop was tobacco, most of which was shipped to England. Because of the fertile soil and desirable growing conditions, the crops prospered.Industry came to Beltsville in the early 18th century when iron ore was discovered in the area. The Muirkirk Iron Furnace on US 1 was established by Andrew and Elias Elliott, who learned their iron-making skills in Muirkirk, Scotland. They produced some of the best-quality pig iron in the country and supplied the U.S. Army with cannons, shot, wheels, and other iron products during the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

Beltsville has a distinguished Revolutionary War hero as its native son. Brigadier General Rezin Beall, who was born on Turkey Flight Plantation on Old Gunpowder Road in 1723, prevented a British invasion at Drum Point on the Chesapeake Bay with only 100 men. He is credited with the fact that there are no Revolutionary War battlefields in Maryland. In 1835 one of the first rail lines in the country, the Washington branch of the B&O Railroad (Baltimore & Ohio), was built through Prince George’s County. Coming from Baltimore, the line entered the county at Laurel and ran southwesterly to Bladensburg, then into Washington. B&O established a rail stop and freight depot on land purchased from a tobacco farmer named Trueman Belt, and they named the place after him. The new community of Beltsville was doubly blessed, for the Baltimore-Washington Turnpike crossed the rail line there. It soon became a thriving little trading center, eclipsing the older community of Vansville further north on the pike.

As the federal government grew, in 1910 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began to purchase land in Beltsville for its Agricultural Research Service, the main in-house research arm of the USDA. The land now houses the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC). The first parcel acquired was 375 acres of the Walnut Grange Plantation with its historic “Butterfly House”. The Center eventually encompassed 14,600 acres and became the largest and most prominent center of agricultural science research in the world. There are a number of historic homes and buildings still standing in Beltsville. The oldest home was built in 1773. One of the largest of the older buildings, built in 1880, was the three-story Ammendale Normal Institute, which was destroyed by fire in 1998.

[Source: Wikipedia]