Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

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...

After completing the survey of the extension of the Pa and Va boundary (the continuation of the Mason-Dixon line) in 1784 and the western ...

Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) - surveyor extraordinaire, inventor, astronomer and, though born a Quaker, became a Major in the Revolutionary...

George Ellicott, his brother Elias Ellicott and their cousin Major Andrew Ellicott each helped to get Banneker's first almanac publish...