Map - Avalon (iron works) at Elkridge
From her Journal:
Maryland June 7, 1815 Wed.
"up to Elkridge at McCorys a new house & excellent Lodging New Beds Mattresses &c."
Source -
Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1815 Journal, 7 June 1815, in The Papers of
Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition, ed. Constance
Schulz. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2012.
http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/PinckneyHorry/ELP1083 (accessed 2019-01-06).
©2019 Patricia Bixler Reber
Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD
Rare to see comments about the area so early. The tavern in question may be McCoy's. IN 1811 the Spurrier family were forced by the court to sell their stage coach tavern by the court to settle an estate. Before doing so they leased the tavern to Henry McCoy for seven years. Rosalie Stiers Calvert bought the tavern at auction with her father's money. Some details are in Rosalie's published letters in "Mistress Of Riversdale". When McCoy's lease expired Rosalie leased the property to Jeremiah Merrill. She now had naming rights she and the tavern became Waterloo, after the battle, in honor of her Belgian heritage and since her family was old aristocracy, freed her country from Napoleon.
ReplyDeleteThe tavern was a large complex, a major horse changing station, including quarters for some stage companies' drivers as Rosalie wrote in her letters. There was nothing else close by for transient travelers. Rosalie even bought Dorsey land to keep away the competition.
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