The ending of the civil war helped the acceleration of Prince George’s County. Although the vast bulk of the county’s territory and people can be described as rural and involved in tobacco farming during this time, events like the expansion of industrialization and suburbanization have transformed life in Prince George’s County significantly.

Even agriculture was not exempt from these modifications. In Prince George’s County, dairy farming, truck farming, and market farming have become more significant in order to supply fresh goods to the expanding and adjacent cities of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Therefore, Prince George’s County’s postbellum era demonstrates the persistent disparity between urban and rural, farming and manufacturing.