Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD
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Viaduct (Thomas)
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Monday, July 23, 2018
B & O rail road sites in Howard County 1857
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"Ellicott's Mills , fourteen miles from Baltimore, covering the bottom and slopes of the steep hills with dwellings, and their top...
Monday, July 3, 2017
The Baltimore or Winans Steam Gun - Civil War
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At the start of the Civil War, a bullet proof "steam gun" was patented by Charles Dickinson and worked on in Ross Winans foundry i...
Monday, September 26, 2016
John H. B. Latrobe's "Fairy Knowe"
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Overlooking his brother Benjamin Latrobe Jr.'s magnificent Thomas Viaduct (more on the B & O Railroad stone bridge HERE ), and seen...
Monday, May 16, 2016
Morse's telegraph message went over the Thomas Viaduct
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On May 24, 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) sent the message " What hath God wrought? " from the Supreme Court chambers in the...
Monday, April 4, 2016
B & O Railroad's Thomas Viaduct
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This curved granite viaduct with eight arches was built in 1835. Incredibly it is still being used ... with modern heavy trains on the do...
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