In a story from a NY ladies magazine in 1837, a visiting Frenchman forgot the name Ellicott's mills, but remembered that it sounded like the English word for jacket (cote/coat); so in broken English he asked a sailor what his jacket was called. Unfortunately he was at the Ellicott wharf in Baltimore, not the mills - which is why he could not see the mills with the whur, whur, whur of the wheel to grind the floo (flour). The Frenchman was more than thirteen miles away from the mills. The arrow shows the location of the early Ellicott wharf at the end of Light Street (north-south) and Pratt Street (west-east) Baltimore. 
The Latrobe Stove was so popular that The Century Dictionary listed "latrobe" as a generic label for all similarly designed stoves. It "arranged for heating
floors above by means of a hot-air flue fitted with a damper and register." The Latrobe Stove was also called Baltimore Heater, Parlor stove or Fire-place Stove and initially made by the Latrobe Stove foundry. JHB Latrobe was a multi-talented man - B&O railroad lawyer, inventor, helped found and led organizations such as the Maryland Historical Society, and more HERE . He thought about the problem after hearing "a complaint made by
his wife, that the stoves then used (the "Franklin" and others)
occupied so much space. He said he could remedy this, and would make a stove to
be placed in the fireplace."
Overlooking his brother Benjamin Latrobe Jr.'s magnificent Thomas Viaduct (more on the B & O Railroad stone bridge HERE), and seen by the RR passengers, John H. B. Latrobe had a country house "Fairy Knowe" designed by Robert Carey Long Jr. who also designed Patapsco Institute and Mt. Ida. Latrobe, son of the architect of the US Capitol, owned and designed a cottage, "Maryland Row", at White Sulpher Springs and was the lawyer for the B & O Railroad. Below is a floor plan of #1 and Latrobe's description of #2 designed with John Niernsee... 
The Union Manufacturing Company started buying land in 1808 for cotton mills, and in 1811 patented their holdings as Oella "in commemoration of the first woman who applied herself to the spinning of Cotton on the Continent of America." Mama Oella (Ocllo and other spellings) and her husband/brother Manco Capac were the legendary founders of the Inca empire. They were included in the then-popular epic poem by Joel Barlow on Columbus published in 1787 and expanded as The Columbiad in 1807.
When they were building a road going west from Ellicott's Mills, the Ellicott brothers had a house built on wheels where the road workers cooked and slept. It was "drawn from place to place" and was the "first movable building seen in Maryland." Perhaps it was a small house or possibly a part of a Conestoga wagon or like a Gypsy caravan. Moving wooden or even brick buildings was surprisingly common in the US, as noted lighthouse engineer Stevenson described in 1838...
Elizabeth Ellicott Lea (1793-1858), whose cookbook Domestic Cookery was first published in 1845, had ties to the shorter of the two adjoining buildings due to be torn down. The
old building sets over the Tiber branch (usually more of a stream) on hand-hewed wooden beams forming a
truss system (like a bridge). Incredible. For about 200 years these buildings have been held up by wood. [HO-586] The supporting wall between the frame (wood) buildings was destroyed during the flood, making it a hazard. Lea was born in the George Ellicott home (below).
This gem of a cemetery and garden was bought in 1855 for $73.25 and
has been revived during the last 30 years by the Friends of the Whipps Cemetery,
Maryland Master Gardeners, and other local groups – even an Eagle Scout
project. Numerous signs are scattered
throughout with histories and names of plants, and every season showcases different flowers and colors. For more history go to www.whippsgardencemetery.org
On May 24, 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) sent the message "What hath God wrought?" from the Supreme Court chambers in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. to Baltimore's B&O train station. Congress had appropriated money to run a line from DC to Baltimore along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks, thus going over the amazing Thomas Viaduct with its two tracks and a walkway. More on the viaduct HERE . Although not the first person to invent the electric telegraph, nor was it his first message, the line became famous, as did Morse and Morse Code.
Edward Gray built the home and mill complex, and lived there with his two daughters and his son-in-law John Pendleton Kennedy. Kennedy (1795-1870) was a lawyer, novelist, politician, Secretary of the Navy and kept a journal which gives fascinating accounts of his education, fighting to protect Baltimore in 1814 and his homes in Baltimore and "Patapsco" near Ellicott City. After Edward Gray died in 1856, the Kennedys continued to live between the two homes until the flood of 1868 - described below.
