Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

The port of Baltimore handled about 600,000 barrels of flour and 70,000 bushels of wheat mostly shipped to England - more than any US port ...

Now all gone, one mill on the Bonnie Branch river was preserved in photos and described in this 1907 article.  Wooden gears are also desc...

Thomas Ellicott (1738-1799) did indeed write and include drawings in his section "The Practical Millwright" which was combined i...

Mills were dangerous places and could catch fire for many reasons.  Oliver Evans and Thomas Ellicott's The Young Mill-wright and Miller...