47-425: The Commodore Joshua Barney House is a historic home located at Savage , Howard County , Maryland , United States . It was originally situated on a 700-acre tract in modern Savage Maryland named Harry's Lot, at a time when the closest town was Elk Ridge . Both "Haary's Lot" and "Huntington Quarter" were inherited by Charles Greenberry Ridgely, sixth son of Colonel Henry Ridgley and Elizabeth Warfield Ridgley. After
94-456: A forested reserve of 4,400 acres (18 km ) accessible to the public for horseback riding, hunting, fishing, and picnicking in limited areas. The state of Maryland classifies the T. Howard Duckett Dam as "high hazard" because large releases of water flood areas of North Laurel. With public recreational land on one or both shores of 74 of the river's 115 miles including the reservoir land, the impact that recreation in natural settings now has on
141-658: A navigable tidal estuary near the colonial seaport of Queen Anne in Prince George's County, Maryland , just southeast of Bowie . The river is bounded by significant marsh areas for 22 miles (35 km) from the Waysons Corner area to the Hunting Creek confluence. The 52 miles (84 km)-long tidal estuary is never wider than 2.3 miles (3.7 km). It marks the boundary between Montgomery , Prince George's , Charles and St. Mary's counties on
188-543: A recommendation that did not pass, to dam and flood the Patuxent River Valley around Savage for a dedicated water source. Savage remained a mostly segregated town for most of its early history until the Civil rights movement of the 1950s. Factory work at the mill was almost exclusively for white workers with exceptions of black apprentices at the forges in the antebellum era. The community slowly integrated in
235-518: A waste task force that reviewed submissions for a 538-acre landfill at route One and 32 owned by Realty Trust and Chase Manhattan Mortgage, with commercial dumping sites at the Savage quarry. Alpha Ridge Landfill was selected instead, but a new quarry would eventually take its place. A new $ 7 million elementary school was built in Savage in 1988, named Bollman Bridge Elementary. Savage is located in southeastern Howard County, bordered by Columbia to
282-581: Is a crucial tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. Despite the central role the river has played in the history of the Bay's environmental movement and abundant conservation resources funneled to it over the years, it remains polluted. Its riverkeeper, Fred Tutman, believes that environmental injustice exists along its banks. On 21 April 2022, PBS released a 56 minute special: " The Chesapeake Bay Summit 2022 " - Experts, scientists and policy makers converge for
329-611: Is a large planned community in Howard County that opened in 1967. Columbia's major downtown roadway is called Little Patuxent Parkway, and Maryland Route 175 in East Columbia was known as the Patuxent Parkway until May 2006, when it was renamed for Columbia's founder, the late James Rouse , and his wife, Patty. It was the largely unchecked erosion from this late 1960s and 1970s building spree that contributed
376-530: Is believed to have anchored for the night in the Patuxent mouth. The river was an important colonial shipping port with the government's garrison situated at the mouth of the river where Charles Calvert was first Collector in 1673. In 1699, Thomas Browne , sometimes referred to as 'The Patuxent Ranger', followed the river from the Snowden plantation to where Clarksville is sited. In 1702 George Plater I
423-491: Is situated close to the city of Laurel and to the planned community of Columbia . As of the 2020 census , it had a population of 7,542. The former mill town is a registered historic place, and has several original buildings preserved within and around the Savage Mill Historic District . The lands of present-day Savage were first settled in approximately 1650. Colonel Henry Ridgley surveyed
470-476: Is situated near the Ridgley family cemetery. It was operated as a bed and breakfast inn starting in 2000, until being placed on the market for $ 1.2 million in 2012. The house never sold, and had been vacant and neglected until 2017. The house is currently an occupied private residence. The seven remaining undeveloped acres surrounding the structure place it at risk of incompatible development and has been placed on
517-629: Is tied to Commodore Joshua Barney , who was a hero of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 , and who lived in the house until leaving the industrial operations to family just prior to his death in 1818 from wartime wounds en route to another property owned in Kentucky. Barney rose to prominence for action during the war while living in this house including involvement in commissioning " The Star-Spangled Banner ". The house
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#1732787066333564-646: The Potomac River to the west passing through Washington, D.C. , the Patapsco River to the northeast passing through Baltimore, and the Patuxent River between the two. The 908-square-mile (2,352 km ) Patuxent watershed had a rapidly growing population of 590,769 in 2000. It is the largest and longest river entirely within Maryland, and its watershed is the largest completely within
611-467: The Savage Mill . It has three sections: the original 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story brick house built by Charles Greenberry Ridgley Sr. about 1760, a 2-story frame addition built in 1941, and a one-story frame addition to the west, built in 1946. The interior of the house was altered during the 1940s when it was used as a boys' school, and about 1960 when it was converted into apartments. Its significance
658-554: The magazines of his ships in the four mile (6 km) stretch above Pig Point (44 miles (71 km) upriver from the Chesapeake when the British approached. The British then launched their attack on Washington, D.C. , from their warships in the Patuxent at Benedict , 22 miles (35 km) away. From there, the troops marched through Nottingham, Upper Marlboro , Bladensburg , and on to Washington. Tobacco farming dominated
705-622: The 1608 voyage upriver by Jamestown, Virginia settler John Smith . Captain Smith got as far as the rough vicinity of the present-day Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary ( Lyons Creek ) area, 40 miles (60 km) from the Chesapeake near what is now the Anne Arundel–Calvert–Prince George's County tripoint. This was most likely the second visit by Europeans to the Patuxent, as in June 1588 a small Spanish expedition under Vicente Gonzalez
752-731: The 2014 and 2015 top 10 most endangered properties list by Preservation Howard County. The Commodore Joshua Barney House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. This article about a Registered Historic Place in Howard County , Maryland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Savage, Maryland Savage is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Howard County , Maryland , United States, approximately 18 miles (29 km) south of Baltimore and 21 miles (34 km) north of Washington, D.C. It
799-633: The Baltimore-Washington bedroom community sprawl . The southern half of the U.S. Army's Fort Meade was added to the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center , which, at 12,300 acres (50 km ), is the second largest contiguous public park-refuge within 30 miles (50 km) of either Washington or Baltimore . It is located midway between these two cities. The contiguous public area of 8,575 acres (35 km ) centered on Jug Bay, 42 miles (68 km) upriver from
846-757: The Chesapeake, form the fifth largest such Baltimore-D.C. preserve and largest tidewater one and consist of the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary , the Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary, and the Jug Bay component of the Patuxent River Park. The 6,600-acre (27 km ) Patuxent River State Park in the uppermost part of the basin is the seventh largest. On 20 April 2022, PBS released a 26 minute documentary: " Troubled Tributary: Maryland's Patuxent River " - The Patuxent River
893-425: The Patuxent River has a below average health rating, scoring a 38%, compared to the Chesapeake's over all health rating of 54%, as of 2016. However, the river does have higher ratings in dissolved oxygen, and likely, will soon have higher ratings in phosphorus. The Middle and Little Patuxent watersheds include nearly all of Columbia, Maryland , including its downtown urban Lake Kittamaqundi and Wilde Lake. Columbia
940-554: The Patuxent's Calvert County than there were in the 1840s, and only a few hundred more than in the first Calvert County census in 1790. The Patuxent was plied by regular steamship service, mostly from the Weems Line, from the 1820s to the 1920s, replacing the schooners and sailing packets that had for the previous centuries served the river's many landings and docks along the 52-mile (84 km) tidal reach. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission constructed two dams on
987-414: The Patuxent's economy for the two centuries following white settlement, with about sixty percent of Maryland's tobacco coming from the Patuxent valley by the late eighteenth century. Destruction of the plantations by the British and of the soil by centuries of tobacco farming brought the mid and lower Patuxent valley into a period of decline that would last until the 1930s, when there were fewer residents in
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#17327870663331034-577: The Snowden iron ore furnace (also known as the Patuxent Iron Works ) just southeast of Laurel , was shipping " pig iron " downriver from the current vicinity of the 1783 Montpelier Mansion , also part of Patuxent River Park. In August 1814, Commodore Joshua Barney and his Chesapeake Bay Flotilla were trapped in the Patuxent by the British fleet under Admiral Sir George Cockburn . To keep them from British hands, Barney's men ignited
1081-600: The Washington branch of the B&;O Railroad was completed, and Savage Station was established on the line about a mile southeast of the present mill. A spur of the B&;O was laid to the Savage factory in 1887, and it was at this time that the famous Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge was moved to its present site from another location. Originally built in 1852, it was one of about 100 on the B&O line. Beloved by railroad buffs,
1128-491: The White property for $ 6,666.67. The company produced sails for the clipper ships that sailed out of Baltimore Harbor , in addition to a wide variety of other cotton products. The cotton milling industry started in Maryland in the 18th century and flourished in the 19th century. Cotton was shipped cheaply from Southern ports and hauled overland by mule and oxen teams to the mills before rail transportation served Savage. In 1835
1175-414: The bulk of the Patuxent River's highest and most damaging sediment , siltation , and pollution levels to date downstream. This in turn led to a nearly complete destruction of a once thriving seafood industry along the brackish portion of the river. "The Patuxent River has known no greater friend, advocate, and defender than Bernie Fowler ." Fowler, as an early-1970s Calvert County commissioner, led
1222-714: The confluence) and the Little Patuxent (below the confluence) form the southwest edge of the CDP. The river drops about 70 feet (21 m) in 0.6 miles (1.0 km) to form the falls that powered the early mills. The Little Patuxent continues southeast to join the Patuxent River at Crofton . Patuxent River The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland . There are three main river drainages for central Maryland:
1269-459: The death of Charles Greenberry Ridgely, Thomas Coale purchased portions of the land containing the structure. His daughter would become the famous Commodore Joshua Barney's second wife, bringing the figure from business in Baltimore. In 1809, Nathaniel F. Williams (1782-1864) married Caroline Barney, daughter of Joshua Barney, who in turn expanded an existing mill site on the property to create
1316-555: The end of Wrighton Road ) uncovered some of the oldest known artifacts in the Mid Atlantic states, including pottery, arrow and spear points, and remnants of wigwams, fires and foodways. The site was probably a center of trade in the region and has one of the best unbroken archaeological records on the East Coast. The Pig Point site includes remnants of the oldest structures ever found in Maryland, wigwam post holes dating to
1363-654: The iron truss bridge is the only one of its type in the world, and, along with the Savage Mill , is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Savage post office opened on January 13, 1836, on "Yankee Hill" at the corner of Washington and Foundry streets with Amos Adams Williams as postmaster. It would later become a branch of the Patuxent Bank of Laurel. Parts of the Savage Mill are said to date from about 1820, and historians have recorded that
1410-497: The land around Savage Mill and nearby Annapolis Junction, Maryland in 1685, naming the tract "Ridgely's Forrest". Joseph White was the grandson of Peregrine White , the first child born of the Mayflower expedition. In 1734, he opened a gristmill on land patented as "Whites Fortune" and "Mill Land". The parcels were consolidated to become "Whites Contrivance". A rich vein of American industrial history lies in Savage. When
1457-445: The latter half of the 20th century. The Savage Volunteer Fire Company was founded in 1937 with a station at Savage-Guilford Road. The station relocated to Lincoln Street in 1957, and Corridor Road in 2013. In June 1972, Hurricane Agnes flooded the local rivers, raising the Patuxent River 25.4 feet, and washing out the road bridge. A replacement opened on September 10, 1975. In 1976, county executive Edward L. Cochran convened
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1504-454: The main branch in the mid-twentieth century. Brighton Dam was constructed 96 miles (154 km) from the Chesapeake in 1943, impounding the waters of Triadelphia Reservoir ; in 1952 the T. Howard Duckett Dam was constructed 14 miles (23 km) farther downstream, near Laurel, thus creating Rocky Gorge Reservoir . The land surrounding the two reservoirs is administered by the WSSC, creating
1551-595: The mill and has also been completely renovated. It is now used to host weddings, parties, and special events. Carroll Baldwin Hall once housed the Savage branch of the Howard County Library. It was built in the early 1920s as a memorial to Carroll Baldwin, former president of the manufacturing company. The Baldwins managed the company from 1859 to 1911. In 1880, the population reached 2,617 residents, and increased to 2,930 in 1890. In 1929, Dr. Wolman issued
1598-410: The mill once had an iron foundry that made many kinds of machinery, specializing in textile manufacturing. The operation of the mill was greatly expanded in 1880 with the installation of steam power. Army uniforms, field tents, and vehicle covers were made. A renovation program began in 1984 that established Savage Mill as a major permanent marketplace. The Savage Mill Manor House is down the street from
1645-533: The name Folly Branch in the Wingate Drive area of the northern part of Glenn Dale , assuming the name "Western Branch" in Woodmore , continuing southward through Prince George's County, joined by Collington Branch before it joins the Patuxent near Upper Marlboro . Native Americans have lived along the Patuxent River since at least 1100 BC. An archaeological dig at Pig Point (just north of Jug Bay at
1692-436: The north and North Laurel to the southwest. U.S. Route 1 (Washington Boulevard) forms the southeast edge of the CDP. The historic Savage mill village is located in the southern part of the CDP, while a major freeway interchange between Interstate 95 and Maryland Route 32 sits on the northern edge of the CDP. The Middle Patuxent and Little Patuxent rivers join to the west of the mill village. The Middle Patuxent (above
1739-437: The river's economy is obvious. The Patuxent Naval Air Station at the mouth of the river has continued to grow during past decades along with tourism, providing another main economic engine in the lower river valley that includes the popular boating center of Solomons . The Patuxent River is the sole known source for Maryland's State Gemstone, a form of agate called Patuxent River stone . According to EcoHealth Report Cards,
1786-605: The state and local levels. The most notable of which include Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary , Merkle Wetlands Sanctuary in the Edgar A. Merkle Wildlife Refuge , and Patuxent River Park , along with many more. Farther north, there is the 20 square mile Patuxent Research Refuge, which helps to protect Patuxent River wildlife. The Little Patuxent River , the Middle Patuxent River , and the Western Branch are
1833-541: The state. The river source, 115 miles (185 km) from the Chesapeake, is in the hills of the Maryland Piedmont near the intersection of four counties – Howard , Frederick , Montgomery and Carroll , and only 0.6 miles (0.97 km) from Parr's Spring, the source of the south fork of the Patapsco River . Flowing in a generally southeastward direction, the Patuxent crosses the urbanized corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. , and opens up into
1880-699: The textile industry was in its heyday, Savage was an important manufacturing center, its mills harnessing the water power on the falls of the Little and Middle Patuxent rivers. The town was named for John Savage, a Philadelphia merchant with interest in a mill on the falls of the Little Patuxent . In 1822, he and his associates, the Williams brothers, chartered the Savage Manufacturing Company, purchasing 900 acres (360 ha) of
1927-534: The third century. The word Patuxent is derived from the Algonquin language used by the indigenous people living in the area prior to the arrival of the European settlers. Its meaning is debated. According to some sources it means "water running over loose stones" while others believe it means the "place where tobacco grows". The Patuxent River was first named ("Pawtuxunt") on the detailed map resulting from
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1974-516: The three largest tributaries. The Middle Patuxent flows into the Little Patuxent just upstream from the historic Savage Mill in Savage . The Little Patuxent then joins the Patuxent just southwest of Crofton . The Middle Patuxent flows 24 miles (39 km) through the middle of Howard County, while the Little Patuxent flows 38 miles (61 km) through northeast and southeast Howard County and western Anne Arundel County. Western Branch originates under
2021-399: The watershed by 2002. Of the Chesapeake's major tributaries, the Patuxent is the only one having most of its harmful phosphorus and nitrogen nutrient overloads coming from urban runoff . The river's other two largest contributors, point sources ( industrial , sewage , etc.) and the declining (24%) agricultural areas, contribute less of the nutrient load. Forested areas account for 43% of
2068-605: The watershed. In 2004, Fred Tutman became the first "Riverkeeper" for the Patuxent. The mission of the Patuxent Riverkeeper organization, a member of the worldwide Waterkeeper Alliance , is to protect and improve the quality of the river's water and watershed and provide access and education at its facility in Nottingham . Over the past 50 years, nationally recognized land preservation efforts in this part of Maryland have saved tens of thousands of acres from
2115-420: The way in a lawsuit filed by downriver Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's counties against upriver counties. The lawsuit forced the state, the upriver counties, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enact pollution control measures. Between 1985 and 2005, the Patuxent saw a 26% decrease in nitrogen , a 46% decrease in phosphorus , and a 35% reduction in sediment, despite urban areas increasing to 31% of
2162-470: The west and Howard , Anne Arundel , and Calvert counties on the east. The Chesapeake estuary's deepest point, 130 feet (40 m) below sea level, is in the lower Patuxent. The two largest cities in the watershed are Bowie and Laurel, Maryland . There is a percentage of agricultural activity in the region as well. The mid and lower banks of the river have swamp and marshland ecosystems . Many of those ecosystems are protected by some form of parkland, on
2209-430: Was the Patuxent naval officer (later based at Sotterley Plantation ), having earlier served as Collector after Calvert, Rousby, Sewall, Digges, and Payne held the collectorship. By the mid and late seventeenth century respectively, colonists spread upriver to Mt. Calvert and Billingsley Point, two 18th-century mansions 43.5 miles (70 km) upriver from the Chesapeake that are today part of Patuxent River Park. By 1705,
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