Granite Granite The Granite Historic District is significant for its association with the granite quarrying industry in western Baltimore County in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally known as…

Relay Relay The town of Relay has always been closely linked to the B&O Railroad. The name was derived from the changing of teams of horses that pulled a wooden…

Oella Oella The community of Oella dates to 1808 and is reportedly named in honor of the first woman “who applied herself to the spinning of cotton on the continent”.…

Ellicott City Ellicott City From 1770 to 1900, The Patapsco River provided a large portion of the power that fueled Maryland’s and the Nation’s Industrial Revolution. In the early 1770s,…

Elkridge Elkridge Elkridge, the oldest settlement in Howard County, Maryland, began in colonial times as early as 1687. In 1743 Caleb and Edward Dorsey were granted patents to the land…

Daniels (Alberton | Elysville) Daniels (Alberton | Elysville) The town’s history can be traced to the 1830s when Thomas Ely and his four brothers first built a mill at this…

Ilchester Ilchester The Milltown of Ilchester and the Thistle Manufacturing Company were located along the east bank of the Patapsco River between Ellicott City and Catonsville. The Baltimore and Ohio…

Catonsville Catonsville Castle Thunder was built in 1787 along the Frederick Turnpike. The land originally belonged to Charles Carroll who had commissioned his son-in-law to develop a plot of land…