Andrew McLaughlin's 1834 lottery description of Ellicott's Mills -- it was noisey

Andrew McLaughlin (1802-1863) managed or owned three hotels, more HERE He sold The Patapsco Hotel in 1834 by lottery, and advertised it in the newspapers and a poster. Below, is his description of the looks... and sounds... around the hotel.  Not to mention the rumbling of the trains next to the hotel. Click to enlarge.


The sounds: "the clink of the hammer...splitting the gray granite [in the quarries]... the dull noise of the forges and rapid motion of saw mills; the hum of ten thousand spindles in the cotton factories, the whirl of the many millstones [flour mills], and the white spray of the pure water which is constantly tumbling over the dam..."

The properties he was selling by lot were the Patapsco Hotel (center of image with balconies, by the railroad tracks), a newly built Railroad Hotel on its left, Castle Angelo (upper right-red brick) he had built the year before, and building lots. 

More posts on the Patapsco Hotel HERE

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Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD