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Font Hill Manor is a historic slave plantation in Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, USA. The house is situated on property surveyed by Daniel Kendall as "Kendall's Delight". [1] The building is constructed of local granite in three sections. The first is a four-by-two bay building.
Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in, and the county seat of, Howard County, Maryland, United States. [3] Part of the Baltimore metropolitan area, its population was 75,947 at the 2020 census, [4] making it the most populous unincorporated county seat in the country.
Martha was born on September 13, 1795, to George Ellicott and Elizabeth (Brooke) Ellicott, who were members of a respected family of Maryland Quakers, the Ellicotts. [1] The family homestead was a stone house built in 1789 near the Patapsco River and the family's mill. [2] Her father often welcomed Native Americans to their home.
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A 1965 article in the Ellicott City Times claimed that 999 slaves worked on the plantation at one time, but research has shown that between 7 and 25 enslaved men, women and children is more accurate. The Ellicott City Times article does not have any primary sources to back up this claim, nor is there an author's name credited to the article. [5]
The Curtis—Shipley Farmstead is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the first land grant in modern Howard County, then Anne Arundel County, to the English settler Adam Shipley in 1688 who settled properties in Maryland as early as 1675. The 500-acre estate was called "Adam the First".
Linwood is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States. [1] The seventeen room brick house was built by slave labor in the early 1800s. [ 2 ] Portions of the farm were subdivided into several 3-5 acre lots in the late 1800s, with strict setbacks and provisions to maintain the neighborhood, including banning ...
The Howard County Times traces its history to 1840, when the Howard Free Press was established by Edward Waite and Matthew Fields in what was known then as Ellicott Mills, (later renamed Ellicott City). the major mill town along the upper branches of the Patapsco River (and future county seat) of Howard County, Maryland, just southwest of Baltimore, the major city and port of Maryland and the ...