About

The Prince George’s Room, located in the rebuilt Hyattsville Branch Library, is a noncirculating, local history and genealogy collection. Formerly known as the Maryland Room prior to the demolition and reconstruction of the Hyattsville Branch, the collection reopened under the new name of The Prince George’s Room with the reopening of the Hyattsville Branch on March 30, 2022. In addition, the Prince George’s Room also holds in its collection historic newspapers on microfilm, and collects several local, genealogical and historical magazines and journals. 

There is a microfilm/microfiche reader on site that is available for use. The Prince George’s Room contains the Hyattsville Branch Library’s collection of non-circulating reference works. This selection of books consists of items that are of general interest for users to refer to on a variety of different topics.

Included in the Prince George’s Room are a number of photos of historic sites and houses in Prince George's County, many of which no longer exist. The collection includes 169 photos of old houses, slave quarters, taverns, a hospital, churches, mansions and other dwellings built between the early 17th and mid-20th centuries. These photos were given to the Prince George’s Room, under the aegis of the Prince George's County Historical Society, by James C. Wilfong, Jr., who was a noted writer and photographer of historic architecture in Maryland. The collection is now digitized and available through Digital Maryland.

As residents of Prince George’s County, we would like to acknowledge that we gather on the traditional lands of the Mattapanient, the Patuxent, the Piscataway, the Moyaone, the Pamunkey, and the past and present, and honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations. This calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit as well.