Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

Showing posts with label Descriptions by travelers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Descriptions by travelers. Show all posts
Monday, March 11, 2019

B & O Railroad 1832 - barracks

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Charles Joseph Latrobe (1801-1875) an English traveler and future Governor of Australia described sites in Maryland - point of rocks, and ...
Monday, February 4, 2019

B&O Railroad route in 1831, by an American travel writer

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Theodore Dwight (1796-1866) wrote several books, including an early travel book by an American.   He describes the early days of the B...
Monday, July 2, 2018

1831 B & O railroad drawn by horse and wretched breakfast at Ellicott Mills

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Thomas Hamilton (1789-1842) rode in "a wooden house or chamber...drawn by a horse at the rate of about four miles an hour."  Af...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Sites on the B&O train line through Howard County in 1833

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Riding the new B&O railroad from Baltimore was a novel 'excursion', and was described in the 1833 book:  A Complete View of Bal...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Duc de La Rochefoucauld's visit to Ellicott's mills in the 1790s

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"Ellicot’s-Mill is a small village, the principal establishment of which is a large gristmill belonging to Mr. Ellicot.  This mill ha...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Ellicott mills in 1805

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"1805 8th Month, 3d. This evening I visited Ellicott's Mills , in company with J. T. and his wife. The overseer of these mills in...
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