Showing posts with label Dorsey family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dorsey family. Show all posts
Sunday, July 17, 2022

"Wyoming" - Dorsey, Howard, and Wyoming Rolls

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Wyoming... not the state, but the Howard County country home ("farm") of Ben and Jane Howard who inherited his father Col John Ea...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

Meeting to make Howard a county in 1837

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Gov. George Howard (1789-1846) of "Waverly" was selected to chair the group of residents including Nath’l. H. Ellicott, Andrew El...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Bleak House - historic home ruin becomes a tot slide

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On a hill off the east side of Rain Dream Hill near Wilde lake sits the shell of a stone house - "Bleak House" - once part of ...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Joe Nick - from slave to Civil War soldier

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During the Civil War, Joe Nick drove a pair of horses with a covered wagon from his master Reuben Rogers' ("a lawyer and farme...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

"New Year's Gift" in Columbia and Glenwood

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There are two "New Year's Gifts" in Howard County. "Linden Grove" was built by Capt. John Worthington Dorsey in 181...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Colonel Gassaway Watkins and "Walnut Grove" family cemetery

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Gassaway Watkins (1752-1840) fought in the Revolutionary War, and later as a Colonel in the War of 1812. He lived at "Richland" ...
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Monday, November 14, 2016

Ellicott City's Ligon and Chatham Streets ... and Gov. Ligon

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Thomas Watkins Ligon (1810-1881) was Governor of Maryland from 1854-1858 as a Democrat when the Whigs/Know Nothing Party (honestly their n...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Priscilla Ridgely (White) Morison's daughter Rebecca (Morison) Henry awarded French Legion of Honor

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Priscilla White (1850-1942) was the 4th Priscilla.  Her father Charles Ridgely White's mother Priscilla Hill Dorsey (Ridgely) White wa...
Monday, August 22, 2016

National Park Service centennial - Hampton Historic Site

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Completed in 1790, "Hampton," just north of Baltimore, had close ties with two Howard County grand homes.  Two Dorsey sisters fr...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Original boundary stone for Doughoregan, Pushpin and Girls Portion

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THE BEGINNING TREES OF DOOH REGAN PUSHPIN AND THE GIRLS PORTION                  1773
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Howard County map c1860

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This new blog will have monthly postings (if not more frequently) on interesting women of years past and historic houses in Ellicott City ...