The story of Courts of Crofton
Why things are the way they are today: the story of Courts of Crofton, from Lee Williams' Brief History, written for the newer families on the street.
- 1970The 1970sCrofton
"Old Crofton"
Crofton begins as a gated golf-course community, a planned development with apartments, parks, schools and shops. That part of Crofton is still its own tax district with a town manager and a volunteer council.
- 1977Building
Woodbridge buys the plat
The first developer planned a mix of houses and townhomes (the townhomes would have been where Queens Court is) but went bankrupt. Woodbridge Construction bought the whole plat for $285,740, got the county to approve all single-family homes, and renamed the streets.
- 1978Building
Mayfair Drive reaches the Courts
Mayfair Drive, until then a dead end, is extended to build Courts of Crofton, part of the second wave of building in Crofton. Pleasant Meadow and the Greens of Crofton don't exist until the 1990s.
- 1978As the last homes went upThe courts
The fight for the tennis courts
The builder said the "Courts" only meant the cul-de-sacs. The young HOA hired a lawyer and threatened to sue; Woodbridge paid for the courts, and the HOA had them designed and built.
- 1978The first yearsNeighbors
The Squire Court bus stop
School buses wouldn't come in, saying they couldn't turn around, so kids walked to Mayfair and Crofton Parkway. Homeowners measured the streets and proved a bus could turn; the stop on Squire Court followed, and the kids nearly filled the bus.
- 1978The first yearsThe association
Run by neighbors
The first directors chose an HOA run by its own residents over a management company. They also asked to join Old Crofton's tax district, but stayed independent when Old Crofton wouldn't take on the common areas.
- 2010About 30 years onNeighbors
A history for the newer families
Lee Williams of Kings Place writes A Brief History of Courts of Crofton, with help from Mike Gorham, Ellen Baron, Margie Hostetler and Jackie Curro.