Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

A previous post on 'Rolling Roads' HERE showed one way of transporting large hogsheads of tobacco to Elk-ridge and other ports. I...

When they were building a road going west from Ellicott's Mills, the Ellicott brothers had a house built on wheels where the road worker...

Before wheat and the flour mills flourished, tobacco was grown as a cash crop in Maryland, including the Howard district of Anne Arundel C...