Showing posts with label Floods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Floods. Show all posts
Friday, November 17, 2023

Mark Russo Creations creating art on Main Street 2023

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For a few months this fall, artist Mark Russo painted some bright vibrant paintings on the boards of Great Panes and Phoenix Emporium on low...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Large iron safes washed away in 1868 flood

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Two iron safes weighing a ton were swept downstream during the 1868 flood. Following the next large flood in 1889, there were hopes that the...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Visitors thronged to Ellicott City just days after the July 24, 1868 flood

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Ferries and a newly constructed foot bridge charged "tourists" from Baltimore and the country ten cents to get closer to see the ...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Trying to tame the floods - Stormwater Staircase; Tiber branch, Hudson branch, New Cut

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The Hudson and Tiber 'branches' (more like streams in dry weather) join in parking lot D behind the visitor's center (old post ...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Ellicott City flood.... again

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Less than two years after the last devastating flood of 2016, Main Street was flooded again on Sunday May 27, 2018.  Within a few mile s...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

8113 Main St., to be torn down after 2016 Ellicott City flood, had connections to Elizabeth Ellicott Lea

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Elizabeth Ellicott Lea (1793-1858), whose cookbook Domestic Cookery was first published in 1845 , had ties to the shorter of the two adjoi...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Ellicott City's flash flood of 2016

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On Saturday night, July 30, over SIX inches of rain fell in TWO hours (most was during one hour) the resulting river of water was funnele...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Incredibly high flood levels sign on Main Street

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Floods and more floods have done various degrees of damage over the years.  Recording just the major floods, this sign on the Oliver Viadu...