All that's left of Ed Whipp's legacy in Glen Burnie is a street name.

The street runs through Country Club Estates, a suburban neighborhood built on what was once Whipp's waterfront farm and private airfield. Whipp's accomplishment was that he brought private aviation to Glen Burnie more than a decade before what is known today as BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport opened a few miles away.

Sometime in the 1930s, Whipp opened a flying school in Baltimore County. But he lived on 165 acres off East Furnace Branch Road and Marley Creek and kept a private seaplane there.

"This development is built on land...