Ellicott City, Maryland Ellicott City, Maryland Main Street in Historic Ellicott City Main Street in Historic Ellicott City Nickname(s): "E.C.", "Old Ellicott City", "Old Ellicott", "Historic Ellicott City" Location of Ellicott City, Maryland Location of Ellicott City, Maryland Ellicott City is an unincorporated improve and census-designated place, along with being the governmental center of county of small-town government in Howard County, Maryland, United States.
Decennial Enumeration of 2010. It is the governmental center of county of Howard County. Founded in 1772, the town contains the B.
Railroad Museum's branch at the Ellicott City Station, assembled in 1830, and the first end of the initial line.
The downtown historic precinct is positioned in the valley of the Tiber River, with its east end abutting the upper Western Branch of the Patapsco River.
Census, Ellicott City surpassed Towson, Maryland (county seat of neighboring Baltimore County) for the first time, as the biggest unincorporated governmental center of county in the country.
The downtown region in the Patapsco Valley is often called "Historic Ellicott City" or "Old Ellicott City", to distinguish it from the encircling suburban unincorporated region that extends north to the Baltimore County line, south to the other large unincorporated town in Howard County, Columbia, and west to West Friendship.
Ellicott City has had primary devastating floods in 1817, 1837, 1868, 1901, 1917, 1923, 1938, 1942, 1952, 1956, 1972 (Hurricane Agnes), 1975 (Hurricane Eloise), 1989, 2011 and 2016.
The 1868 flood washed away 14 homes, killing 39 to 43 (accounts vary) in and around Ellicott City.
A 1923 flood topped bridges, in 1952 an eight-foot wall of water swept the shops of Ellicott City, and a 1956 flood inflicted heavy damage at the Bartigis Brothers plant.
A harsh flood occurred in 1972 as a result of rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes, in which Ellicott City and the Old Main Line sustained serious damage.
On 21 June 1972, the Patapsco River valley flooded 14.5 feet (4.4 m) amid Hurricane Agnes, taking out a concrete bridge, destroying the Jonathan Ellicott home, and the 1910 Victor Blode water filtration plant, and flooding Main Street to the Odd Fellows hall. The resulting flash flood caused harsh damage in historic Ellicott City, especially along Main Street. Many homes, roads, businesses, sidewalks, and more were finished by the flooding, including the city's landmark clock. A state of emergency was declared, and two citizens died as a result of the flooding. His grist foundry was assembled on the banks of the Patapsco River where the Frederick road (later known as the old National Road, then United States Route 40/Maryland Route 144) crossed (later known as Ellicott's Upper Mills). His son Benjamin rebuilt the corn grinding foundry after one of the incessant Patapsco floods in 1768.
Benjamin Hood then sold the foundry to Joseph Ellicott in 1774 for 1,700 pounds.
On 24 April 1771, three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia, chose the picturesque wilderness, a several miles upriver from Elk Ridge Landing (today's Elkridge, Maryland), the upper-most part of the river then navigable by tobacco-loading sailing merchant ships in the 18th Century, to establish a flour mill, purchasing 50 acres (20 ha) of Baltimore County territory from Emanuel Teal and 35 acres (14 ha) from William Williams.
In 1775 they period their holdings with 30.5 acres (12.3 ha) from Bartholomew Balderson and Hood's Mill. John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott established "Ellicott's Mills", which became one of the biggest milling and manufacturing suburbs in the East.
Nathaniel sold his partnership in 1777, Joseph sold all but his Hood's Mill ownership the next year. The town retained the name "Ellicott's Mills" when the U.S.
Named after a 19th-century owner, the cabin was believed to have been assembled about 1780 by an early Ellicott's Mills settler.
The Ellicott brothers constructed sawmills, smithies, stables, an petroleum mill, a grain distillery, and grain mills. They helped revolutionize farming in the region by persuading farmers to plant wheat freshwater tobacco and also by introducing Plaster of Paris fertilizer to revitalize depleted soil.
By 1830, the framers families could no longer support operations as "Ellicott and Company" or "Johnathan Ellicott and Sons".
By 1840, the Ellicott family sold off their interests in the two flour mills, the granite quarry, the saw foundry and plaster mill. In 1830, Ellicott's Mills became the first end of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad outside Baltimore, the first commercially directed cargo and passenger barns in the country, which was organized in 1827 and had its "first stone" laid the following year with primary ceremonies on July 4, "Independence Day" with the beginning of construction.
The Ellicott City Station, assembled on an embankment athwart the corner of the town and along the Patapsco River and intersecting Tiber Creek stream, with its "Oliver Viaduct", titled for a B.
The famous race between New York industrialist and Baltimore foundry-owner Peter Cooper's (1791-1883), iron steam engine, the "Tom Thumb", and a horse-drawn rail carriage took place between Relay Junction on the return trip from Ellicott's Mills towards Baltimore in August 1830.
Even though the horse won the race due to a sudden broken drive belt on the "Tom Thumb", it heralded the time when steam engines steadily improved, and the soon-to-be steam-operated barns became a vital link in the town's economy and later expanding to the town/city of Baltimore's economic supremacy along with the state in the nation.
The site of the Howard County Courthouse, which was assembled from 1840 1843 in the former Howard District of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was so designated for the new temporary precinct in 1839, and continued and was period later when Howard County became an official autonomous jurisdiction in 1851, as one of the 23 counties (and Baltimore as an autonomous city) in the State of Maryland.
Over 80 vacant dwellings lined the Howard County side of the river. By 1861, Ellicott's Mills was a prosperous farming and manufacturing area.
At the start of the Civil War in April 19, 1861, "Gaithers Raiders" part of the Confederate "Howard County Dragoons" from Oakland Manor, marched through Ellicott's Mills to Baltimore, responding to the Baltimore brawl of 1861, before heading South to join J.
Stuart. Later that month, Union Army troops seized the "Winans Steam Gun" which had been en route to Harpers Ferry, Virginia at Ellicott Mills.
The experimental gun had been advanced by small-town Southern-sympathizer barns builder and industrialist Ross Winans. In the fall of 1862, the 12th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was assigned to guard Ellicott's Mills, setting up the 1200 man Camp Johnson on the lawn of the close-by Patapsco Female Institute. On July 10, 1864, in the third Confederate invasion of the North, led by General Jubal Early, forced the retreat of the Federal troops under the command of General Lew Wallace down the National Pike from the Battle of the Monocacy, to the B.& O.'s Ellicott's Mills station and to Baltimore.
Homes and churches in Ellicott's Mills were temporarily used as hospitals for the Union wounded. In 1867, a town/city incorporation charter was secured for Ellicott's Mills forming a small-town government with a mayor and council, and the name was changed to "Ellicott City". Talbot relocated uphill to a brick and granite store designed by Charles Timanus that homes the Ellicott City Brewing Company today. Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan tours Ellicott City, viewing damage left by the 2016 floods, accompanied by county executive Allan Kittleman Howard County assembled its first jailhouse, Ellicott City Jail, also called Emory Jail or Willow Grove, on Emory Avenue in 1878.
In 1879, political gangs controlled the polling locations shooting and wounding colored Ellicott City voters.
Mencken's best-selling memoir Happy Days, 1880 1892, he described his childhood in the chapter "Rural Delights" while living with his parents in their rented home in Ellicott City. Ellicott City favored the Temperance movement, enacting a law against "spiritous, fermented or intoxicating liquors" in 1882, taking effect May 1, 1883.
Trolley service was proposed for Ellicott City in 1892, allowed on 20 April 1895, and implemented in 1899. The service ran a double-ended streetcar for most of its service life until 1955 when the Baltimore Service commission recommended a bus replacement which ran two years. The Catonsville & Ellicott City Electric Railway Company rail line was later converted to a hiking trail. In 1924, the Display Machine Doughnut Corporation moved to Ellicott City from New York, occupying the site of the 1916 Patapsco Flouring Mill assembled on the ruins of the former Elicott and Gambrill's mills.
The only chartered town/city in the county, Ellicott City lost its charter in 1935 with a proposal from Senator Joeseph Donovan as the tax base from saloon fees lost in prohibition caused citizen protest as taxes were shifted to residents. In 1943, the Metropolitan District was formed to bring water and sewage to Ellicott City, sponsored by newspaperman P.G.
The first primary shopping center, Normandy Shopping Center was constructed. Alda Hopkins Clark purchased the Ellicott City 1st Presbyterian Church to donate it to the Howard County Historical Society. Ellicott City Station, 1970.
Prior to 1962, the only polling locale for Howard County voters was in Ellicott City.
In May 1962, voters were offered a second locale to vote, also in Ellicott City at the National Armory on Montgomery Road. The county's only primary airplane incident occurred in the town/city near Clarksville in 1962.
The same year, the state community department ordered the town/city to stop dumping its raw sewage into the Patuxent River and precarious a undivided septic system. In 1964, the Corinthian Conservation Company was proposed to operate a Title I private-nonprofit partnership to implement a slum eradication program in Ellicott City, demolishing residences, and replacing them with 75% federal funded apartment complexes. In 1977, the county chose a site outside of the town/city for a new landfill, dominant to the closure of the small-town New Cut Road landfill which served the county from 1944 until May 1980 for trash and hazardous materials. The New Cut landfill became the Worthington Dog Park. In 2011, a portion of the former 83 acres (34 ha) landfill site was advanced with a $462,000 grant from the Maryland Energy Administration to build onsite solar arrays to power Worthington Elementary. Many of the attractions have been moved to Clark's Elioak Farm in Ellicott City, where they are being restored.
Since 2005, Ellicott City has been ranked four times among the top "20 Best Places to Live in the United States" by Money and CNNMoney.com. In 2009, Ellicott City appeared on Newsmax magazine's list of the "Top 25 Most Uniquely American Cities and Towns," a piece written by current CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg.
In 2014, the Hiene House and Ellicott City Jail were placed on the Preserve Howard top-ten most endangered list due to walkway and parking lot assembly plans. In 2015, Ellicott City was inducted as a new member of Tree City USA. Ellicott City has been home to a large Korean populace along its Route 40 corridor, where various Korean-owned businesses and restaurants operate.
In 2017, Governor Larry Hogan dedicated a section of Route 40 from Rogers Avenue to Greenway Drive as "Korean Way", paying homage to the city's Korean culture. Ellicott City's Koreatown has been widely recognized for revitalizing declining shopping centers along the U.S.
Ellicott City is claimed to be assembled on seven hills. These hills lie southeast of the Historic District, which is in the Tiber River valley immediately west of the Patapsco River.
Greater Ellicott City is roughly bordered by the Patapsco River to the north and east, Bonnie Branch and Maryland Route 108 to the south, and Manor Lane and Marriottsville Road to the west.
Gaither's Quarry, Ellicott City, photographed approximately 1898 Historic Ellicott City sits on the Silurian or Ordovician Ellicott City Granodiorite.
Outcrops can be seen lining Main Street. Several granite quarries were in operation in Ellicott City in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Climate data for Ellicott City, MD Population by Race in Ellicott City Maryland (2010) Main Street and Maryland Avenue in Historic Ellicott City.
Ellicott City has been called one of the most haunted small suburbs on the east coast. The Howard County Tourism Council runs a Ghost Tour that visits a several places with reputations for paranormal activity. Among these are the mansions Lilburn, Hayden House, and Mt.
Ida; the B&O barns bridge that crosses over Main Street in the center of the town; the old Ellicott City Firehouse; and the Patapsco Female Institute. Ellicott City Station Howard County Courthouse viewed from the Main Street stairwell.
Ellicott City is at present part of Maryland's 7th congressional district, presently represented by Democrat Elijah Cummings.
Congressman Cummings has an office based at the Howard County Welcome Center on Main Street, where constituents can walk in for consultation. Ellicott City homes various county offices, departments, and courthouses.
The Howard County Circuit Courthouse is positioned on Court Avenue, on a hilltop north of the downtown area.
The Howard County District Courthouse is positioned close by on Martha Bush Drive, which homes precinct courtrooms and the county clerk's office.
The County Executive and Council, along the departments of Community Services, Education, Elections, Employment, Health, Law Offices, Licensing, Natural Resources, Planning, Public Safety, Public Works, Recreation, and Transportation are positioned in the George Howard Government Campus on Court House Drive. The Howard County Police Department command posts is also positioned in the George Howard Government Campus on Court House Drive.
The Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services provides service from two stations in Ellicott City: Station 2 on Montgomery Road, and Station 8 on Old Frederick Road and Bethany Lane.
Ellicott City proper is served by Mount Hebron High School, Centennial High School, Wilde Lake High School, and Howard High School in the Howard County Public School System; Marriotts Ridge High School serves most of the rest of the CDP area. Two of the system's special schools, along with the central offices, also have Ellicott City addresses, though in fact they are on the northern edge of Columbia. Middle schools serving the CDP are Burleigh Manor, Dunloggin, Bonnie Branch, Mount View, Ellicott Mills and Patapsco. The elementary schools include Veterans, Ilchester, Northfield, Centennial Lane, Manor Woods, St.
The Grist Mill Trail joins Ellicott City to Elkridge for pedestrians and cyclists.
Ellicott City is served by the Regional Transportation Agency of Central Maryland (RTA) by Route 405 (Yellow Line) travelling from the Columbia Mall to the Miller Branch Public Library.
Numerous paths and trails surround Ellicott City for recreational and commuting purposes.
The Grist Mill Trail in Patapsco Valley State Park runs alongside to the Patapsco River in Baltimore County, connecting Ilchester Road to Gun Road in Relay.
The Trolley Line Number 9 Trail in close-by Oella also joins Ellicott City to Catonsville.
Major roads in Ellicott City include Interstate 70 traveling east to west from Frederick to Baltimore.
Route 29 (Columbia Pike) terminates at Maryland Route 99 in Ellicott City, and then travels southward towards Columbia and Washington, D.C.
Similarly, Maryland Route 100 also terminates in Ellicott City, and travels eastward towards Glen Burnie.
Additional routes that connect Ellicott City from east to west include its Main Street, Baltimore National Pike, and Montgomery Road.
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