Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD
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Columbia MD history
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Monday, March 13, 2017
"Wilde Lake" - Laura Littman's Columbia sites photos: Old Oakland Farm, People's Tree and Wilde Lake
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Once part of the vast lands of Charles Sterrett Ridgely's Oakland mansion HERE , the stone home "Old Oakland" was the farm c...
Monday, April 18, 2016
Oakland's outbuildings repurposed
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A previous post HERE described Oakland. Next to the mansion is a stone wash house (left) which connects to the underground ice house hol...
Monday, April 11, 2016
Charles Sterrett Ridgely's name change and Oakland
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Charles Ridgely Sterrett (1782-1847) legally changed his surname as requested by his mother's uncle Capt. Charles Ridgely, the builder...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Columbia's poetical street names
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"Oh, you must live in Columbia!" is the title of an entertaining and very informative book, and a response to hearing one of man...
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