Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

Gov. George Howard (1789-1846) of "Waverly" was selected to chair the group of residents including Nath’l. H. Ellicott, Andrew El...

Edwin Abbey (1852-1911), who would gain fame painting large murals while living in England, visited his father’s sister and her husband D...

Harriott (Pinckney) Horry (1748-1830) took an overland trip north from her plantation "Hampton" near Charleston SC when she was ...

Charles Joseph Latrobe (1801-1875) an English traveler and future Governor of Australia described sites in Maryland - point of rocks, and ...

The club was officially organized in 1878 had moved to Baltimore in 1870. "The Howard County Hounds can be traced back as far as 181...

Patapsco Female Institute had at least two connections to famous Civil War Confederate female spies.  Two daughters of Rose O'Neal Gre...

The country home of Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely in Highland (Rt 108 between Ellicott City and Sandy Spring) was built in 1749 with an addit...

During the Civil War, Brigadier General Erastus Bernard Tyler (1822-1891) was sent to defend Baltimore in June 1863, and was involved in ...

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

Andrew McLaughlin (1802-1863) managed or owned three hotels, more HERE He sold The Patapsco Hotel in 1834 by lottery, and advertised it i...

Andrew McLaughlin (1802-1863) is remembered in Howard County for the sketch showing lower Main St. for a lottery to sell his property.  H...

During the early days of railroad building, various materials were used to make the rails, including wood, stone or iron.

Edward Gray (1776-1856) sailed from Ireland as a teenager to Philadelphia where he saw President Washington and would work his way up to ow...

Just off lower Main Street on Tiber Alley, a grist mill was built sometime before an 1860 map labeled it "T McCrea Depot Mill." T...

"Line will be in operation in time for Christmas Shopping" was the headline for an 1898 article in the Baltimore Sun.  Initial...

The opening of service on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road was covered in the local Niles’ Weekly Register   Baltimore: Mar – Sept 1830.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was started by businessmen in Baltimore, with the first line going to Ellicott mills.  As recalled by JHB La...

A small community of 29 Russian Jewish families started farms near Hollofield on the old "Brosenna" estate.  The following articl...

Nathan Tyson (1787-1867) married George Ellicott's daughter Martha Ellicott (1795-1873) in 1815 at the Quaker Meeting house in EC.  Th...

The Howard County fair began on Thanksgiving Day, 1907, and probably took place in the old Patapsco Hotel, by the train tracks and across...