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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP40_ellicotts-mills_Ellicott-City-MD.html
By the 1850s, a prosperous community was located here around the Ellicott family gristmills and ironworks established in the 1770s. When the Civil War began in 1861, the town's population exceeded 2,000. Although the mill workers and merchants of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZT_b-o-railroad-station_Ellicott-City-MD.html
One of the first railroads in the country, constructed in 1830 of wooden rails that carried horse-drawn cars, extended from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills. This station was built the next year, and soon steel rails replaced wooden ones as the Balti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDK9_life-along-the-canal_Ellicott-City-PA.html
The building and operation of the 108-mile Delaware & Hudson Canal provided a multitude of jobs not only for Dutch and English settlers but for Irish and German immigrants. The area hummed with activity. Laborers dug the canal with picks and shove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDK8_ellicott-city-volunteer-fire-department_Ellicott-City-MD.html
Headquarters of Howard County Fireman's AssociationIncorporated 1927· · · Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Project No MD 100-F· · · SponsorsBoard of CommissionersHoward County, Maryland&mid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM52S_taylors-row_Ellicott-City-MD.html
This row of 19th century utilitarian structures has been the architectural orphan of Ellicott City. Referred to on early maps as barns or sheds, these buildings were built between 1830 and 1870 to serve the livery trade. Because of their relative …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4EQ_road-versus-rails_Ellicott-City-MD.html
Ellicott City's Main Street is the NationalPike, part of the road system that movedAmericans west. Only two decades after theroad was constructed, a new transportationrival appeared. In 1831, America's firstrailroad, the Baltimore & Ohio, introduc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3BP_decatur-dorsey_Ellicott-City-MD.html
Howard County native Decatur Dorsey was one of only sixteen African American soldiers to received the Medal of Honor for courage under fire during the Civil War. Sgt. Dorsey, of Company B, 39th United States Colored Troops, earned his medal at the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3BB_oella_Ellicott-City-MD.html
The Ellicott brothers constructed what became the first leg of the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike to get their flour to market in Baltimore. By 1787, they cut a new road east through the forests to shorten the trip to the city. This route b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I2_friends-meeting-house-and-graveyard_Ellicott-City-MD.html
After founding the town of Ellicotts Mills in 1772, the Ellicott brothers established this burying ground in 1795 and built the adjacent Friends Meeting House in 1800.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I1_ellicotts-upper-mills_Ellicott-City-MD.html
Joseph Ellicott (who with his brothers Andrew and John had established Ellicott's Lower Mills, now Ellicott City, on the Patapsco River in 1772) built the Upper Mills and his home on "Fountaindale" near this spot in 1775. Remaining gravestones of …