In 1812, Elias Glenn, a district attorney, established a county seat near what is currently known as Brooklyn Park. He named his property “Glennsburne”. The name was changed to “Glennsbourne Farm”, and eventually “Glenburnie”, as the property was passed through Glenn’s descendants. Records also show the name as “Tracey’s Station” and “Myrtle”, after local postmaster Samuel Sewell Tracey and one of Tracey’s boarders, before the final decision was made. It would not be until 1930 that postmaster Louis J. DeAlba decided two words were better than one, and gave the town a final name change to the current Glen Burnie.
Among the earliest Glen Burnie schools was First Avenue Elementary, built in 1899. The oldest area church is St. Alban’s Episcopal, which was built in 1904, with many of its bricks dating back to Marley Chapel, an early Maryland parish from the 1730s. Crain Highway, one of Glen Burnie’s main thoroughfares (named after Robert Crain), opened in 1927 and Ritchie Highway (Maryland Route 2, named for ex-Governor Albert C. Ritchie) followed in 1939. Ritchie Highway carried nearly all Baltimore-area traffic headed for Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge until an alternate bypass road, Interstate 97, opened in the 1980s.
These charts show statistics in Glen Burnie, MD for the following: Median Sale Price, Active Listings, Days on Market, Months of Supply. Each chart shows Detached and Attached housing types.