Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

The first three firehouses were on upper Main Street, and the current firehouse is above Old Ellicott City at the top of Old Columbia Pike ...

A walk by historic & flood prevention sites along Main Street, Old Ellicott City OEC NOTE: this is a work in progress Link to...

Historic & flood prevention sites along Main Street (Frederick St.), in Ellicott City. 1860 Schase map (left) and 1834 McLoughlin l...

John Davis, travelling from England, worked for a few months as a tutor to Nathaniel Ellicott's (1763–1841) children at his home Rockle...

Initially the blog was about notable women and historic homes of Howard County, but there are so many other intriguing topics from B&...

Although the back portion which went over the river was removed, a small portion has been fixed up by the county and open. Stop by while y...

The mill wheel art on the side of the old movie theater on Old Columbia Pike and Main St. (Frederick Road) has a green wreath with white li...

The long-running British TV show Dr. Who has a Tardis... now Old Ellicott City has one to house books in a large "Little Free Library...

The namesake for Howard County and owner of land there ("Waverly") was too old to fight, but his sons helped protect Fort McHenr...

In the 19th century, a few people, including Ben Franklin, experimented with electricity for science or entertainment. Joseph Priestly wro...

Martha Ellicott Tyson (1795-1873), daughter of George Ellicott (1760-1832) and Elizabeth (Brooke) Ellicott (1762-1853) was raised in his sto...

Westlake Ace Hardware of Kansas City bought out Clark's Hardware Store from the 7th generation owner (Margaret Clark) in April 2024. Jo...

8125 Main St., Ellicott City was bought by the Caplans 1913, 1926. Howard County, which owns the building, is working on it ($500,000 budg...

The demolition will be documented here, so pictures will be added throughout the process. These are the last three buildings protecting th...

The first Main Street building to be torn down is the old Great Panes, which did stained glass. Stone front building, c1841, additions ...

There are many model train sets scattered on tables/stands throughout the B&O Railroad Station in old Ellicott City (Main and Maryland...

For a few months this fall, artist Mark Russo painted some bright vibrant paintings on the boards of Great Panes and Phoenix on lower Main S...

Early morning, about 2 AM, on Nov. 12, 1799 Andrew Ellicott, who led his crew to survey the southern US border, recorded the hours-long sho...

Four brothers, the grandsons of one of the Ellicott founders (Andrew), supported Audubon (1785-1851) by being subscribers for his first...

Two iron safes weighing a ton were swept downstream during the 1868 flood. Following the next large flood in 1889, there were hopes that the...