Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

A variety of art including two large murals on the buildings next to the visitors center (part of the Yates mural, left), inside the old Po...

The first three firehouses were on upper Main Street, and the current firehouse is above Old Ellicott City at the top of Old Columbia Pike ...

A 'walk' by historic & flood prevention sites along Main Street, Old Ellicott City OEC. For more information click on the ...

Historic & flood prevention sites along Main Street (Frederick St.), in Ellicott City. 1860 Schase map (left) and 1834 McLoughlin l...

Although the back portion which went over the river was removed, a small portion has been fixed up by the county and open. Stop by while y...

The mill wheel art on the side of the old movie theater on Old Columbia Pike and Main St. (Frederick Road) has a green wreath with white li...

The long-running British TV show Dr. Who has a Tardis... now Old Ellicott City has one to house books in a large "Little Free Library...

8125 Main St., Ellicott City was bought by the Caplans 1913, 1926. Howard County, which owns the building, is working on it ($500,000 budg...

The demolition will be documented here, so pictures will be added throughout the process. These are the last three buildings protecting th...

The first Main Street building to be torn down is the old Great Panes, which did stained glass. Stone front building, c1841, additions ...

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...

Deborah McLaughlin Disney (c1798-  ) was a remarkable businesswoman who leased the hotel(not tavern), then bought it in 1840. An acre was s...

Andrew McLaughlin (1802-1863) is remembered in Howard County for the sketch showing lower Main St. for a lottery to sell his property.  H...

Just off lower Main Street on Tiber Alley, a grist mill was built sometime before an 1860 map labeled it "T McCrea Depot Mill." T...

"Line will be in operation in time for Christmas Shopping" was the headline for an 1898 article in the Baltimore Sun.  Initial...

The Howard County fair began on Thanksgiving Day, 1907, and probably took place in the old Patapsco Hotel, by the train tracks and across...

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

8081 Main St., a fine stone building, was built c1833 as a home then became a store.  In 1881 Dorothy Kraft bought the building for Kraft...

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...

Tom Randall was the son of Julia Bacon, a slave who was the cook at Howard House.  The Howard House hotel, built in 1850 contained a bar a...