Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

Governor George and Prudence Ridgely Howard named the home and lands that his father, Col. Howard, gave them "Waverly" after t...

Gov. George Howard's (1789-1846) large stone dairy was built c1822 according to an early sketch of his "Waverly" buildings a...

On May 24, 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) sent the message " What hath God wrought? " from the Supreme Court chambers in the...

Robert Mills, the American born architect of two Washington Monuments - Baltimore in 1815 and DC in the 1830s - designed a soap stone and ...

Edward Gray built the home and mill complex, and lived there with his two daughters and his son-in-law John Pendleton Kennedy.  Kennedy (179...

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 ...