Broadlands remained an active center for Maryland’s dairy community even after Hoagland Gates’ death. In this newspaper photograph, dairymen and 4H members attend Maryland Jersey Cattle Club’s dairy judging school held in front of the milk room and…
In 1943, Anne Gates married Lieutenant Harold Eugene Copley of San Antonio Texas. At the time of their marriage, Harold Copley was serving as an instructor at the Army Air Forces Navigation School in Hondo Texas. Although the couple initially settled…
Photograph of Elizabeth Gates standing with the family dog, Bruehl, in front of a 1942 Mercury Eight Coupe Convertible and the house she shared with her mother at Broadlands..
This image reportedly shows the first bull to arrive at Broadlands farm. The very early date of the photograph is confirmed by the fact that is depicts both the new buildings of Gates’ Broadands complex on the left and the old Bowen House, on the…
Margaret Chalfont Mackey Gates (December 24, 1890-December 29, 1981) daughter of Alfred Wilson Mackey and Minerva Spencer Mackey and wife of Hoagland Gates. Before her marriage to Hoagland, Margaret served as “Principal of the Junior Department” at…
Anne Gates (1921-2007) was the eldest daughter of Hoagland and Margaret Mackey Gates. Anne was born in Philadelphia but lived for 55 years at Broadlands. This photograph was taken in 1943, the year that Anne graduated from Ohio State University.