A quiet suburb of Baltimore with plenty of open spaces, Parkville, Maryland is about half an hour’s drive from the state’s most populous city. It is named after a plot of land that was designated to always remain a park after the original landowner, Simon Jonas Martenet donated it to the residents. Though Parkville's beginning stretched only way back to the late 19th century, the suburb's main street, Harford Road, was once an Indian trail, and during Colonial times, an important corridor that connected the northern and southern colonies.