Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

Bernard Fort and brother William 'cabinetmaker and undertaker' came to Ellicott City from England. They had a small place in 1836 b...

Surrounded by homes, the assembly hall ruins are all that remain of the St. Charles' College, started in 1831, for young men preparing...

EC250 Ellicott City, Maryland's Sestercentennial. Events, information HERE Below are some past talks on tape about Ellicott Ci...

Wyoming... not the state, but the Howard County country home ("farm") of Ben and Jane Howard who inherited his father Col John Ea...

From hearth cooking 250 years ago to cookstoves, from beehive bake ovens to Reip ovens to ovens in the cookstoves, there were many changes ...

George Ellicott built a large stone house in 1789 across from their flour mill and next to his brother Jonathon's house. It was actual...

Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) - surveyor extraordinaire, inventor, astronomer and, though born a Quaker, became a Major in the Revolutionary...

The remarkable Ellicott brothers - Joseph, Andrew, John, with some financing from Nathaniel - created the state-of-the-art mill and the t...

During the lockdown I have been busy finding talks, demos and cook-alongs for my calendar of food history virtual talks, which left little ...

During the last three months of 1918 there were 1,854 cases with 19 deaths from Influenza.  While there were cases in each month of 1919, ...

Florence Adele Hunt (1873-1954) was head nurse at Hospital 101 at St. Nazarain during a fierce battle and the influenza epidemic when they ...

Andrew McLaughlin (1802-1863) owned the Patapsco Hotel in Ellicott's Mills from c1830 until it was sold by lottery tickets in 1834.  ...

PATAPSCO RIVER AT WOODSTOCK, MARYLAND. Daily gage height, in feet, of Patapsco River at Woodstock, Maryland, for 1899

Benjamin Brown wrote that he leased the early quarry at Ellicott's mills and his announcement/advertisement was picked up by a London ...

Deborah McLaughlin Disney (c1798-  ) was a remarkable businesswoman who leased the hotel(not tavern), then bought it in 1840. An acre was s...

Started in 1907, the Patapsco Manor Sanitarium was bought in 1939 by Issac H. Taylor of Taylor furniture and became Taylor Manor until Shep...

Gray had improved the old paper factory for cotton in 1815, but in five years there was a terrible fire.  200 workers - mostly women and c...

The new B & O Railroad made the international news as seen in this excerpt from a French book. 

The Traveler's Directory of 1802 listed the "rates of ferriage" - man and horse 6 cents, four wheel carriages 27 cents, pas...

During the Civil War there was competition among the war correspondents to get the story and get it to their publisher. One reporter played ...