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<figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Millison-Larry-Bailey-Sen.-Paul.tif.jpg"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Millison-Larry-Bailey-Sen.-Paul.tif-300x147.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-449" style="aspect-ratio:2.04014598540146;width:375px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">St. Mary&#8217;s Commissioner Larry Millison, left, was honored at the annual Democratic Club Democrat of the Year Dinner in 1989. Millison was elected three times as commissioner after serving on the board of education. Center is the late Senator Paul Bailey and Maryland Senate President Mike Miller. THE CHESAPEAKE staff photo</figcaption></figure></div>

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<p class="has-text-align-center" style="font-size:22px"><strong>The story of how Hiram and his son Larry Millison took part in the transformation of the small village known as Jarboesville into what became Lexington Park.</strong><br />By Kenneth C. Rossignol<br />THE CHESAPEAKE</p>



<p style="font-size:14px">LEXINGTON PARK (June 1990) — Failing to fold up its tents and steal away into the night as a group of camel herders, <strong>Lexington Park</strong> has become one of Southern Maryland’s most vibrant and important communities.<br />The dire predictors of the base closing that were forecast by jealous folks in Leonardtown worried about their loss of control of life in St. Mary’s County never came to fruition.</p>


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<p style="font-size:14px"><br />Over the past forty years since Lexington Park was written about in the old Washington Star, the orderly boom town described in 1950 has perhaps become a little disorderly in ways but has certainly continued to boom.<br />The housing area described has become one of the area’s lowest-cost housing, while expansive and expensive residential developments, from condos to luxurious million-dollar waterfront homes, provide shelter for a much larger collection of people. From aircraft mechanics to school teachers and test pilots to convenience, over 35,000 people now reside within 15 minutes of the main gate of Patuxent River Naval Air Station.</p>


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<p style="font-size:14px"><br />The remote Southern Maryland town that, in 1950, was known for its trailer homes is now, amazingly, becoming a bedroom community for the Washington, D.C. area.<br /></p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Comfort-Inn-and-Sign-of-the-Whale-on-Rt.-235-scaled.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Comfort-Inn-and-Sign-of-the-Whale-on-Rt.-235-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-16963" style="width:508px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Comfort Inn and Sign of the Whale on Rt. 235</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:20px">When folks were hollering for a four-lane highway to be built from Pax River to Washington, perhaps they never realized that people would use it to commute to work while sleeping in St. Marys.<br /></p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DSCF6657-scaled.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DSCF6657-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-16965" style="width:429px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">As Millison Development grew, larger offices were needed and soon occupied about 4,000 square feet of space.</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px">Along with the expansion of residential areas has come the construction of four major shopping centers in the Lexington Park area, which now includes California.<br />The former bump in the road known as California used to consist of Millison’s Store and Post Office, Norris’s Store, and Dexter’s. Now, the area boasts a four-lane highway, Larry Millison’s new showpiece, Sans Souci Plaza, the Wildewood Shopping Center, and several smaller strip centers such as Laurel Glen, Hickory Hills, and the now aging Esperanza Shopping Center.<br /></p>


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<p style="font-size:14px">The Naval Air Station has expanded to include all manner of testing of aircraft and weaponry systems. The station&#8217;s purpose remains the naval air patrol of the mid-Atlantic region, and the Test Pilot School is a major tenant on the base. Other groups, such as the Naval Air Logistics Command and the Naval Mess School, bring great diversity to this area.<br />With the expansion of the testing duties has come the growth of Defense Contractors. Especially in the 1980s, the large buildup of the Reagan Administration made massive changes to the landscape.<br /></p>


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<p style="font-size:14px">For the first time, off-base office space became a significant factor in the local economy. ; Massive buildings have sprouted up, some on the town’s main drags of Great Mills Rd. and Rt. 235, and some tucked away to spots like Wildewood and at the South Gate of the base.</p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Roost.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Roost-1024x432.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-16972" style="width:545px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Jack Rue&#8217;s Roost Restaurant in Lexington Park, Md. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px">The first really fine apartment complex in town was built in the ’60s. ; Queen Anne Apartments by Harry Waller and since then numerous projects have gone up that cater to the decidedly upwardly mobile middle class that holds down the military, civil service, and contractor jobs.</p>



<p style="font-size:14px">Five elementary schools, two middle schools, and a high school, in addition to the private and parochial schools, serve the Lexington Park area.</p>



<p style="font-size:14px">The first shopkeeper of Lexington Park was<strong> Hiram Millison</strong>. He was booted off the base as the Navy rushed to construct the Naval Air Station when World War II broke out. Millison ran a general store in the community of Pearson, and while he may have been out of a store, he was not out of foresight. He acquired the land located at the main gate.</p>



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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DSCF6656-scaled.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DSCF6656-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-16966" style="width:549px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Larry Millison built this office building to replace the old Rexall drugstore on Coral Place in Lexington Park, Md. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px"><br />Hiram Millison worked day and night alongside his workmen to construct a restaurant, bus station, and eventually, shops that would have a grocery, drug store, and countless services that catered to the needs first of the workmen constructing the base and then the military personnel that staffed it.<br />Being hardworking and understanding what his customers wanted ran in Hiram Millison’s family. ; His father Israel Millison, known everywhere as “Jake,” came to America shortly before the turn of the century from Lithuania. ; A great part of this nation left Europe in those days to escape the endless wars and to seek the freedom and prosperity of the United States. ; <strong>Jake Millison</strong> spent two years on a doggedly determined quest winding his way through Europe to arrive at a seaport and make passage to Baltimore.</p>


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<p style="font-size:14px"><br />Jake managed to buy out a peddler that worked as a type of traveling branch of the Epstein Department Store in Baltimore and that’s how he landed in St. Mary’s County. ; He found his sweetheart from Lithuania in Baltimore and he and Sarah settled in St. Mary’s County.</p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Betty-and-Larry-Millison-present-a-check-to-the-Pax-River-NAS-commander-for-the-Air-Expo.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Betty-and-Larry-Millison-present-a-check-to-the-Pax-River-NAS-commander-for-the-Air-Expo.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-16968" style="width:481px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Betty and Larry Millison present a check to the Pax River NAS commander for the Air Expo, shown in the lobby of the Belvedere Motor Inn. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px"><br />Jake’s son Hiram built up a typical general store and the rest is history. ; Hiram Millison became an important part of the St. Mary’s Community. ; St. Mary’s has an unusually high number of businesspeople that take an active role in the affairs of the community and the Millison’s are no exception. ; </p>



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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSCF6661-scaled.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSCF6661-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-16967" style="width:507px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The Roost, founded by Jack Rue on Great Mills Road, along with the Belvedere, operated by Betty and Larry Millison, were the fine dining venues for St. Mary&#8217;s County. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px">When one enters the <strong>St. Mary’s County Circuit Courthouse, </strong>one sees Hiram Millison’s name on the dedication plaque as a member of the building committee, and in the Leonard Hall Governmental Center, Larry Millison’s name is listed on that plaque.<br /></p>


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<p style="font-size:14px">Slot machines have been absent from St. Mary’s County for over twenty years, but a curious change has occurred. The State government has started running both numbers and a lottery every day—perfectly legal! Talking to many local people, it seems that the day of slots will be seen again.</p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Jack-Daughety-in-1989.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Jack-Daughety-in-1989.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11324" style="width:533px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Jack Daugherty in 1989. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px"><br />While there have been many people central to the development of Lexington Park since 1950, Maryland Bank &; Trust President Jack Daugherty and Developer Larry Millison have been the key players.<br />Millison says of Daugherty, “No one has helped people get the money they need for a car, a home or to start their business as Jack has.” Daugherty said, “Larry Millison invests not only his money in his hometown but also puts his heart in it.”</p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Larry-Millison-Jewish-cowboy-1953-Balt-Sun-1.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Larry-Millison-Jewish-cowboy-1953-Balt-Sun-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11328" style="aspect-ratio:1.4444444444444444;width:400px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Larry Millison &#8211; The Jewish Cowboy 1953 Baltimore Sun</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px"><br />Larry Millison served one term on the Board of Education and three terms as a County Commissioner. ; Expressing a conservative/populist political philosophy, Millison has gained support from wide segments of the County’s population. ; Independent and determined, ; Millison has always cherished the late St. Mary’s County Circuit Court Judge Phillip B. Dorsey and the legendary and still active Senator Paul Bailey. ;</p>


<div class="wp-block-image">
<figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Judge-Dorsey.bmp"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Judge-Dorsey.bmp" alt="" class="wp-image-6905" style="width:514px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">St. Mary&#8217;s Circuit Court Judge Philip H. Dorsey summons up a stem-winder endorsing the candidacy of Roy Dyson, left, for the House of Delegates in 1974; Sen. J. Frank Raley sits at right. </figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px"> Even today Millison is considered a possible candidate for St. Mary’s County Commissioner President and remains as unpredictable as ever. ; Many folks that supported Larry over the years have found him on the side of the taxpayer and the infamous ‘little people’.<br />To imagine a stooped over small man named Jake carrying a 300-pound pouch on his back, trudging up a dusty road from the steamboat wharf, then you understand what Larry Millison remembers and knows his roots.<br /></p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Brass-Rail-wall-of-slots.jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Brass-Rail-wall-of-slots-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-4861" style="width:560px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">St. Mary’s County has a long and recent history with slot machines, with the most recent surge in slots taking place seven years ago as thousands of illegal slot machines spread throughout liquor stores, bars, and restaurants, all with using various charities as fronts with no independent accounting of the funds. The charities were gullible and were happy to take the money until the officials managed to get their act together and shut it all down, hauling away scores of slot machines. These slots were lined up in the Brass Rail in Great Mills. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px">In forty years, another writer will have the pleasure of updating the history of this small town. While it may not be small, it will most likely have an entrepreneur named Millison planning a structure and renting it to people with the aspiration of achieving the never-ending American Dream.</p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Israel-Jake-and-Sarah-Millison-and-their-sons-Harry-left-and-Hiram-St.-Marys-County-c.-1906..jpg"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Israel-Jake-and-Sarah-Millison-and-their-sons-Harry-left-and-Hiram-St.-Marys-County-c.-1906.-688x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-16976" style="aspect-ratio:0.672514619883041;width:611px;height:auto"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Israel-Jake-and-Sarah-Millison-and-their-sons-Harry-left-and-Hiram-St.-Marys-County-c.-1906.</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="font-size:14px"><br />(Since the publication of this article in 1990, St. Mary’s County has continued to boom; Larry Millison died in 1998 and Jack Daugherty in 2000. Millison Development continues to be operated by Rachelle Millison, who continues to manage retail and build office complexes. A new generation now operates a bustling race track &#8211; Jay Ezra Beasley, the son of Rachelle Millison and grandson of Jay Laurence &#8220;Larry&#8221; Millison, operates <a href="https://www.buddscreek.com/">Budds Creek Motocross </a>Track)</p>



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