The story of Glade Towne
Glade Towne began as a horse farm. Here's how a Hall of Fame champion's home became a neighborhood of 476 homes.
- 1936The farm
Challedon is born
The future Hall of Fame champion Thoroughbred is bred in Maryland by William L. Brann and Robert S. Castle, and races under the colors of their Branncastle Farm. The owners live in the big white manor house on what is now Glade Blvd.
- 1958The farm
The end of a champion's life
Challedon dies in 1958. His name, and the names of other horses raised at the farm, live on in most of Glade Towne's streets.
- 1969The land
A college that never came
The farm is sold to the Maryland Baptist College, which finds the location too far out in the country and decides not to build.
- 1971The neighborhood
Earnest Ausherman buys the farm
The developer of the Glade Towne Community Association buys the land, and the farm starts becoming a neighborhood.
- 2025TodayThe neighborhood
476 homes, and the farm still shows
The community is complete: 120 condos, 147 townhouses and 209 single-family homes. The horse barn is now a preschool behind Glade Valley Church of the Brethren. The outbuildings behind the manor house, once slave quarters, are apartments. And the carriage row trees still lead from Route 194 to the manor's iron gates.