Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

Theodore Dwight (1796-1866) wrote several books, including an early travel book by an American.   He describes the early days of the B...

"Ellicott's Mills , fourteen miles from Baltimore, covering the bottom and slopes of the steep hills with dwellings, and their top...

Down stream on the Patapsco River from Ellicotts mill was a corn mill (which occasionally could grind flour) eerily called Dismal Mill, bu...

Built in 1829 at Ilchester, the viaduct was destroyed in the flood of 1868.  A metal bridge was put on the remaining parts of the bridge, ...