Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

Novelist Washington Irving (1783-1859) who bought a cottage in 1835, and transformed it into the fanciful "Sunnyside" in Tarryto...

A previous post HERE described Oakland. Next to the mansion is a stone wash house (left) which connects to the underground ice house hol...

Charles Ridgely Sterrett (1782-1847) legally changed his surname as requested by his mother's uncle Capt. Charles Ridgely, the builder...

This curved granite viaduct with eight arches was built in 1835.  Incredibly it is still being used ... with modern heavy trains on the do...

150 years ago, Jane (Gilmor) Howard led more than 350 Maryland women to collect the equivalent of $2.3 million dollars for the starving wo...

Four governors lived in the county, and it was named for a fifth governor with extensive land holdings there - Col. John Eager Howard.  Wh...

On July 4, 1828, Charles Carroll of Carrollton laid the 'cornerstone' for the start of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between t...

“Linwood” was the home of a possible future Saint, at one time owned by the great-grandson of Martha Washington and would become a school ...

"Oh, you must live in Columbia!" is the title of an entertaining and very informative book, and a response to hearing one of man...

The manor is known for its connection to Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832), who outlived all the other signers of the Declaration ...

This new blog will have monthly postings (if not more frequently) on interesting women of years past and historic houses in Ellicott City ...