Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

Showing posts with label Kennedy (John Pendleton). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kennedy (John Pendleton). Show all posts
Monday, January 7, 2019

Edward Gray - cotton mill on the Patapsco, George Washington,

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Edward Gray (1776-1856) sailed from Ireland as a teenager to Philadelphia where he saw President Washington and would work his way up to ow...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Cotton mill heated in 1816 by a young Robert Mills

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Robert Mills, the American born architect of two Washington Monuments - Baltimore in 1815 and DC in the 1830s - designed a soap stone and ...
Monday, May 2, 2016

"Patapsco" - the home not the river - and the 1868 flood

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Edward Gray built the home and mill complex, and lived there with his two daughters and his son-in-law John Pendleton Kennedy.  Kennedy (179...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Washington Irving visits his friend John Pendleton Kennedy

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Novelist Washington Irving (1783-1859) who bought a cottage in 1835, and transformed it into the fanciful "Sunnyside" in Tarryto...
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