Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD
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Monday, July 17, 2017
Colonel Gassaway Watkins and "Walnut Grove" family cemetery
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Gassaway Watkins (1752-1840) fought in the Revolutionary War, and later as a Colonel in the War of 1812. He lived at "Richland" ...
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Monday, February 20, 2017
Oliver Cromwell Gilbert : a run-a-way slave's success story and 2 Walnut Groves
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Oliver Cromwell Kelly was born in 1832 on "Walnut Grove" (owned by Gassaway Watkins), to Cynthia Snowden, the enslaved cook and ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
5 Maryland Governors and Howard County
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Four governors lived in the county, and it was named for a fifth governor with extensive land holdings there - Col. John Eager Howard. Wh...
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