Sarah Nicholas Randolph (October 12, 1839 – April 25, 1892) was an American educator, school principal, historian, and an author. She wrote The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson and The Life of General Thomas J. Jackson .
76-581: Patapsco Female Institute (PFI) is a former girls' boarding school, now a partially rebuilt historical site, located on Church Road in Ellicott City, Maryland , United States . The grounds are home to popular outdoor theatrical performances by The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company . In the 1930s the Institute was also known as "Warwick". The Patapsco Female Institute was chartered in January 1834. It
152-835: A CSX coal train derailed on the Old Main Line Subdivision . Two 19-year-old girls who were sitting on the railroad bridge over Main Street were killed when coal was dumped on them. In 2012, the Forest Diner closed, ending a 66-year business as a traditional polished metal roadside diner, making way for 38 apartments. 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 construction plans. In 2015, Ellicott City
228-774: A B&O board member Robert Oliver crossing over the National Road of large blocks of locally quarried gray granite, stands today as a living history museum, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior , administered by the National Park Service . It bears the designation as the "Oldest surviving railroad station in America". In 1829, New York industrialist and Baltimore foundry-owner Peter Cooper began testing his iron steam engine, Tom Thumb (1791–1883), on
304-515: A New Light" was published in The Nation on May 5, 1887. She represented the Randolph and Nicholas families, as well as Thomas Jefferson, when people performing research. Randolph contributed to magazines. She helped establish monuments of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee . At some point she owned Underhill, a 500-acre tract and a house, near Edge Hill and Shadwell, Virginia . She
380-590: A difficult start in 1896, granite mining was started. In 1907, Taylor Manor started as the Patapsco Manor Sanitarium built on property along New Cut Road. In 1939 the facility was purchased by Issac Taylor and run as the Pinel Clinic. Taylor operated an optometrist business and Taylor's Furniture on Main Street. In 1948 the facility expanded to 48 beds, and in 1968 it expanded to 151 beds. The modernist circular rotunda stands out at
456-481: A family man than Sarah N. Randolph." From this northern terrace the view is sublime; and here Jefferson and his company were accustomed to sit, bare-headed, in the summer until bed-time, having neither dew nor insects to annoy them. Here, perhaps, has been assembled more love of liberty, virtue, wisdom, and learning than any other private spot in America. Her work, The Lord Will Provide , was published in 1872. She also wrote The Life of General Thomas J. Jackson , who
532-463: A former student he wrote that the war almost ruined him and that he had $ 30,000 in outstanding pre-war debt due from the parents of students from the former Confederacy. The riots in Baltimore in the spring of 1861, due to the passage of Union regiments through Baltimore on their way to Washington, caused the school to be closed for a time. In the fall of 1862, the 12th New Jersey Regiment camped near
608-434: A high turn over, where ex-students could have some teaching experience before moving on to seek employment elsewhere. Under Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, when the school was not in session, and students had to remain, there was no organized activity for them. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps always left town to visit relatives, her publishers or other personal business. John Phelps remained to keep the school open. He also arranged for
684-534: A particular subject, such as English. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps was very active in helping to find employment opportunities for students who were interested. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps managed to find positions for some girls to live at a large house and teach a handful of girls. Sometimes, after being away gaining teaching experience and earning some money, a girl would return to the PFI to finish her education. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps also had some teaching positions with
760-473: A population of poverty-class and working-class Appalachian and Southern migrants who came north looking for jobs. Many were factory workers who subsequently worked in the mills of Ellicott City. Many of the Appalachian migrants came from the mountains of Tennessee, earning Ellicott City the nickname "Little Sneedville", after the town of Sneedville, Tennessee where many of the migrants had come from. By
836-469: A storm dropped 6 inches (150 mm) of rain in two hours on the community. The resulting flash flood caused severe damage in historic Ellicott City, especially along Main Street. Many homes, roads, businesses, sidewalks, and more were destroyed by the flooding, including the town's landmark clock. A state of emergency was declared, and two people died as a result of the flooding. On the afternoon of May 27, 2018, historic Main Street flooded again, after
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#1732801137075912-582: Is bordered to the south by Columbia at Maryland Route 108 and to the southeast by Ilchester at Maryland Route 104 and Bonnie Branch Road. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 30.1 square miles (77.9 km ), of which 30.0 square miles (77.6 km ) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km ), or 0.41%, are water. Ellicott City is claimed to be built on seven hills. These hills lie southeast of
988-542: Is not to solve the flood problem but mitigate it from over four feet to under one foot of flooding on the streets. Ellicott City is in northeastern Howard County, bordered to the east and north by the Patapsco River , which forms the Baltimore County line. The Ellicott City census-designated place (CDP) extends to the northwest beyond Marriottsville Road and to the southwest beyond Centennial Road. It
1064-638: The American Civil War , the school was re-opened and managed by Randolph and her sister, Mary B. Randolph. As the school grew, a frame house on the estate was used for music and art classes. The school had a good reputation, known for its academic program as well as instilling character in the girls. In 1879, she moved to the Ellicott Mills, Maryland , area, where she was the principal of the Patapsco Institute . She established
1140-466: The American Civil War . It was not enacted. His financial circumstances worsened during the war. Randolph, her mother, and her sisters, Carolina Wayles Randolph, Ellen Wayes Randolph Harrison, and Mary Buchanan Randolph ran the Edge Hill School for Girls. The school was established in 1836 by Jane Nicholas Randolph, Randolph's mother. In 1869, after her mother died and following the end of
1216-680: The Ellicott City Jail , also called Emory Jail or Willow Grove, on Emory Avenue in 1878. The stone jail intended for 12 inmates operated until the Howard County Detention Center opened in 1983. In 1879, political gangs controlled the polling locations, shooting and wounding African American Ellicott City voters. The deputy sheriff declined to arrest the leaders for fear of his life and further outbreaks of violence. In H. L. Mencken 's best-selling memoir Happy Days, 1880–1892 , he described his childhood in
1292-558: The Ellicott City Station ; it is the oldest surviving train station in the United States, having been built in 1830 as the first terminus of the original B&O Railroad line. The historic district is often called "Historic Ellicott City" or "Old Ellicott City" to distinguish it from the surrounding suburbs that extend south to Columbia and west to West Friendship . Prior to the establishment of Ellicott City,
1368-619: The county seat of, Howard County , Maryland , United States. Part of the Baltimore metropolitan area , its population was 75,947 at the 2020 census , making it the most populous unincorporated county seat in the country. Ellicott City's historic downtown – the Ellicott City Historic District – lies in the valleys of the Tiber and Patapsco rivers. The historic district includes
1444-436: The " Winans Steam Gun " which had been en route to Harpers Ferry, Virginia , at Ellicott's Mills. The experimental gun had been developed by local Southern-sympathizer railroad 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 1,200-man Camp Johnson on the lawn of the nearby Patapsco Female Institute . On July 10, 1864,
1520-486: The "Maryland Mill Act of 1669" to condemn 20 acres (8.1 ha) for a mill site adjacent to his river-side 157-acre (64 ha) property, where he built a gristmill . His son Benjamin rebuilt the corn grinding mill after one of the frequent Patapsco floods in 1768. On 24 April 1771, three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania , north of Philadelphia , chose the picturesque wilderness several miles upriver from Elk Ridge Landing (today's Elkridge, Maryland ),
1596-539: The 1886 - 1887 academic year. She could not make ends meet and the school closed. In 1891, the joint stock company was dissolved and the property was sold to James E. Tyson. The property was converted to a summer hotel called the Burg Alnwick Hotel. Fourteen years later, in 1905, it was purchased by a Miss Lilly Tyson and turned into a private home. In 1917, during the First World War , the building
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#17328011370751672-567: The B&;O Railway. This was the first time a steam locomotive was used to transport persons over rails in the United States. The famous race between 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
1748-534: The Confederate Army, mostly on his brother’s staff. The PFI under Robert H. Archer was different from the school run by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps. The school was larger, the fees were higher, the girls had more freedom of movement, and more students stayed at the school when classes were not in session. Mr. Archer had programs year round for the girls. He was observed, for example, in July, 1857, with some of
1824-573: The Doughnut Corporation of America. The only chartered city in the county, Ellicott City lost its charter in 1935 with a proposal from Senator Joseph Donovan, as the tax base from saloon fees lost in Prohibition caused citizen protest when taxes were shifted to residents. On April 27, 1941, a fire gutted the eight-story doughnut factory, but it rebuilt, providing doughnut mixes to WWII troops. In January 1942, an emergency room
1900-471: The East. In 1774, Joseph Ellicott purchased Hood's Mill for 1,700 pounds, which became known as "Ellicott's Upper Mills". In 1775 the brothers expanded their holdings with 30.5 acres (12.3 ha) from Bartholomew Balderson. Nathaniel sold his partnership in 1777, and Joseph sold all but his Hood's Mill ownership the next year. With the development of Ellicott's Mills, the main road connecting Baltimore to
1976-585: The Granite Manufacturing Cotton Mill, Charles A. Gambrill's Patapsco Mill, John Lee Carroll 's mill buildings, and dozens of homes. One mill was rebuilt by Charles Gambrill, which remained in operation until a fire in 1916. A 1923 flood topped bridges, in 1952 an 8-foot (2.4 m) wall of water swept the shops of Ellicott City, and a 1956 flood inflicted heavy damage at the Bartigis Brothers plant. On June 21, 1972,
2052-648: The Historic District, which is in the Tiber River valley immediately west of the Patapsco River. The Tiber River is a small tributary of the Patapsco that forms the narrow valley followed by Main Street. Several deep stream valleys converge at this location, which increases the risk of flooding, but at the same time creates the town's heights. Sarah N. Randolph Sarah Nicholas Randolph
2128-818: The Miss Randolph's School of Girls in Baltimore in 1884. She ran the school until her death. It was located at Eutaw Place and Lanvale Street. The school continued on after her death as The Sarah Randolph School, which was operated by the principal A. L. Armstrong. She corresponded with Hugh Blair Grigsby , a historian, about details and accuracy of History of the Life and Times of James Madison by William C. Rives and John Smith's Pocahontas . Her letters to and from Grigsby were published in Letters of Sarah Nicholas Randolph to Hugh Blair Grigsby . In 1870, her chapter about " Martha Jefferson Randolph ", her grandmother,
2204-747: The National Armory on Montgomery Road. The same year, the state health department ordered the city to stop dumping its raw sewage into the Patuxent River and develop a modern 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,
2280-782: The Patapsco River valley flooded 14.5 feet (4.4 m) from the remnants of 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 Old Main Line of the B&O Railroad also sustained serious damage. On September 27, 1975, the town was flooded 9.0 feet (2.7 m) from Hurricane Eloise . Floods also occurred September 22, 1989, from Hurricane Hugo , and on September 7, 2011, flooding 11.0 feet (3.4 m) from Tropical Storm Lee . On July 30, 2016,
2356-655: The U.S. capital. Homes and churches in Ellicott's Mills were temporarily used as hospitals for the Union wounded. In 1866, cholera broke out. In the same year, the Granite Mills cotton factory owned by Benjamin Detford burned down. In 1867, a city incorporation charter was secured for Ellicott's Mills forming a local government with a mayor and council, and the name was changed to "Ellicott City". The first mayor
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2432-610: The University of Cincinnati using a news transfer tax for school and park projects. It was purchased for $ 17,500 by the County soon after. Since 1966 the building has been under the care of the 'Friends of the Patapsco Institute'; it has been stabilized and partially restored, and the grounds fenced in to limit public access. The county finance director declared the building unrestorable, but budgeted $ 1.7 million to convert
2508-564: The admittance of lower income students who were to be trained as teachers. Maryland law stipulated that once the PFI had earned $ 15,000 from the lottery, the $ 800 annual state payment would cease. That happened in 1860. Each academic year was composed of two 22 week sessions beginning in May and November. Diplomas were conferred in April and October. Typically, 5 or 6 girls earned diplomas during each period. Certificates were also issued for completion of
2584-437: The area around it to a park. The Patapsco Female Institute is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman named Annie Van Derlot who died of pneumonia while attending school there. While this claim is popular among ghost hunters, there is no record of an Annie Van Derlot ever attending the Institute. Ellicott City, Maryland Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in, and
2660-487: The area by persuading farmers to plant wheat instead of tobacco and also by introducing Plaster of Paris fertilizer to revitalize depleted soil. The Ellicotts produced the product until a fire on 11 January 1809. Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence , a rare Roman Catholic and a wealthy landowner with the largest fortune then in colonial America,
2736-605: The area. The park closed to the general public since the early 1990s. A shopping center (called the Enchanted Forest Shopping Center) was built on its parking lot. Many of the attractions have been moved to Clark's Elioak Farm in a rural area in the southwest corner of the Ellicott City CDP, where they are being restored. The Enchanted Forest was featured in the 1990 John Waters -directed film Cry-Baby . At midnight on August 21, 2012,
2812-455: The buildings to be cleaned and repaired. A condition of Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps employment as principal of PFI was that she had to have an Episcopal priest on staff as chaplain. The Rev. Holmead was the first chaplain. In 1845, Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps replaced the Rev. Holmead and during her tenure there were a series of chaplains that she selected. After Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps left in 1856
2888-526: The center of campus. Taylor Manor covered more than 70 acres (28 ha). In 2000, the facility became a branch of Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital . In 1924, the Display Machine Doughnut Corporation moved to Ellicott City from New York, occupying the site of the 1916 Patapsco Flouring Mill built on the ruins of the former Elicott and Gambrill's mills. The company made doughnut mix and doughnut manufacturing machines as
2964-490: The chaplains at PFI were usually the rectors of the local Episcopal Church, St Peter’s. The Phelpses signed a second seven year lease in 1848. John Phelps died in 1849. In 1855 Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps decided not to renew her lease for a third time. She stayed on for an extra year so that the school could be expanded and would be large enough to accommodate the students from the school run in Baltimore by her replacement, Robert Harris Archer. Robert Harris Archer (1812 - 1875)
3040-430: 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. This was shortly changed to limit sales of liquor to licensed shops that did not sell other goods, providing the primary source of the town's tax income. Trolley service
3116-673: The community's Korean culture. Ellicott City's Koreatown has been widely recognized for revitalizing declining shopping centers along the U.S. highway. The town is prone to flooding from the Patapsco River and its tributary the Tiber River. These floods have had a major impact on the history of the town, often destroying important businesses and killing many. Ellicott City has had major devastating floods in 1817, 1837, 1868, 1901, 1917, 1923, 1938, 1942, 1952, 1956, 1972 ( Hurricane Agnes ), 1975 ( Hurricane Eloise ), 1989, 2011, 2016, and 2018. The 1868 flood washed away 14 houses, killing 39 to 43 (accounts vary) in and around Ellicott City. It wiped out
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3192-672: The county chose a site outside of the city for a new landfill, leading to the closure of the local 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-acre (34 ha) landfill site was developed with a $ 462,000 grant from the Maryland Energy Administration to build onsite solar arrays to power Worthington Elementary. Ellicott City has historically been home to
3268-418: The final resident, Dr. Whisman for use as a nursing home. Howard county made a demand of the owner to remove all wood from the structure to prevent fires, including the roof, floors and paneling leaving the institute in a permanent state of ruins. The property was willed to Dr. Whisman's Alma-mater, the University of Cincinnati. In 1966, the County considered buying the eight acre property again as parkland from
3344-436: The first commercially operated cargo and passenger railroad in the country. The B&O was organized in 1827 and had its "first stone" laid the following year with major ceremonies on July 4, Independence Day , with the beginning of construction. The Ellicott City Station , built on an embankment across the corner of the town and along the Patapsco River and intersecting Tiber Creek stream, with its "Oliver Viaduct", named for
3420-651: The girls at one of the spas in what was then western Virginia. The demographics of the student body were different. When Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps came to PFI she brought students with her from the Rahway school. Some had also attended the West Chester school. Many girls came from states north of Maryland. Besides the students she brought with her, the PFI’s existing student body was primarily from Maryland and Virginia. Mr. Archer through his family had southern connections. There
3496-559: The institute. Ellicott Mills (now Ellicott City) had both a boys' school, Rock Hill, and a girls' school, the Patapsco Female Institute (PFI). By 1840, neither was doing well. The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, William R. Whittingham, had a personal interest in education and became involved in both schools. The Rev. Alfred Holmead transferred from Baltimore County to run Rock Hill and Bishop Whittingham, personally interviewed Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps to become
3572-432: The main crossing of the Patapsco River connecting Baltimore with western Maryland stood about three miles north at what is now Hollifield (Old Frederick Road and Johnnycake Road). The main road continued west towards Mount Airy and Frederick along what later became Maryland Route 99 . The first mill at that site on the river had been built by Christopher Gardiner in about 1716. Near this place, in 1766, James Hood used
3648-464: The mid-1980s, the "hillbilly" community had faded. Many of the migrants from Tennessee returned, while others lived in apartments along Route 40. By 1985, Ellicott City had experienced gentrification , becoming associated with antique shopping. Historic Main Street has been the site of several devastating fires, most notably in November 1984, three in 1992 and again on November 9, 1999. The 1984 fire
3724-562: The new temporary district in 1839, and continued and was expanded later when Howard County became an official independent jurisdiction in 1851, as one of the 23 counties (plus Baltimore as an independent city) in the state of Maryland. The town in 1851 was in a spate of depression as low costs shut the Maryland Machine Manufacturing Company. Over 80 vacant dwellings lined the Howard County side of
3800-452: The physical plant. The PFI reopened in the fall of 1879. The school was run by Sarah N. Randolph (1839 - 1892). After her seven year lease expired in 1885, Sarah Randolph moved to Baltimore and ran a school there. A September, 1885, advertisement for the PFI, shows that the school was open with Annie Matchett as Principal and Roberta Archer as Vice Principal. The two women were let out of their lease. Amanda Taylor became Principal as early as
3876-616: The principal of the PFI. The Phelpses leased the school for seven years. John Phelps was listed as head of the family; in practice he was the business manager, taking care of the accounts, the grounds and buildings. Under Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, each student was charged a basic fee for room, board, washing, and basic instruction in English. Extra fees were charged for other subjects such as foreign languages, music and dance. The school eventually had several sources of income, including proceeds from state approved lotteries and $ 800 per annum for
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#17328011370753952-490: The region received over eight inches of rain in the span of two hours, just days before the new flood emergency alert system was to become operational. Homes, businesses, and infrastructure, including roads and the town's clock, were again damaged or destroyed. One person died, a National Guard member swept away while trying to save others. In 2017, the Ellicott City Watershed Master Plan
4028-531: The river. By 1861, Ellicott's Mills was a prosperous farming and manufacturing area. At the start of the Civil War on 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 riot of 1861 , before heading south to join J. E. B. Stuart . Later that month, Union Army troops seized
4104-404: The school, and the PFI closed again. According to the chaplain of the PFI, at the time, Charles S. Spencer, the school re-opened in the spring of 1863. Archer’s first wife, and first cousin, Elizabeth Archer died in 1852. He married his second wife Mary Ringgold Archer (d. 1892) in 1858. By 1871 Archer was too ill to run the school. On July 10, 1871, the PFI board voted to transfer the balance of
4180-697: 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. The one-day delay by Wallace's small force at Monocacy Junction enabled Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to rush troops in time to defend
4256-472: The third seven year lease to Archer’s wife, Mary Ringgold Archer. Mrs. Archer ran the school, along with Roberta Archer, Robert Archer’s daughter from his first marriage until the third lease expired in 1877. Mary and Roberta Archer transferred their school to Washington, D. C. The school was named the Archer Institute. The PFI remained closed for a year as the board spent $ 10,000 on improvements in
4332-487: The time when steam engines steadily improved, and the soon-to-be steam-operated railroad became a vital link in the town's economy and later expanding to the city of Baltimore's economic supremacy along with the state in the nation. The site of the Howard County Courthouse , which was built from 1840 to 1843 in the former western Howard District of Anne Arundel County, Maryland , was so designated for
4408-400: The uppermost 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 land from Emanuel Teal and 35 acres (14 ha) from William Williams. John , Andrew , and Joseph Ellicott founded "Ellicott's Mills" , which became one of the largest milling and manufacturing towns in
4484-568: The west shifted southward from the Upper Mills to the Lower Mills at Ellicott City. This route later was incorporated into the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike and the National Road . The town retained the name "Ellicott's Mills" when the U.S. Postal stop opened on October 7, 1797. The Ellicott brothers constructed sawmills, smithies, stables, an oil mill, a grain distillery, and grain mills. They helped revolutionize farming in
4560-415: The work of Kittleman to study five plans. One would involve removing six buildings and another only four buildings. Two plans called for boring underground tunnels that was considered too expensive. The plan chosen involves tearing down four buildings and boring a 15-foot diameter tunnel through 1,600 feet of the granite hillside. Ten buildings were purchased and six will be stabilized and restored. The plan
4636-540: Was E. A. Talbot, who lived in a stone house and operated a lumber yard at the base of the river. His business was washed away in the flood of 1866, and again in 1868. He was offered a clear title on his home from his opponent Issacs if he threw his reelection, which he did. Talbot relocated uphill to a brick and granite store designed by Charles Timanus that houses the Ellicott City Brewing Company today. Howard County built its first jailhouse,
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#17328011370754712-493: Was a much greater deep south representation in Mr. Archer’s student body in his school in Baltimore, which would continue at the PFI. With greater freedom of movement, staying at school year round, present for more years, 21, from 1856 -1877, Mr. Archer’s student body made a larger impression on the local community than Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps’s students. The Civil War was hard on the PFI and Mr. Archer’s finances. In an 1866 letter to
4788-408: Was a native of Harford County, Maryland. He was a graduate of West Point and resigned from the army in late 1837. In the 1840s he started a girls' school in Baltimore. He ran girls' schools the rest of his life. This Robert H. Archer is sometimes confused with his first cousin, Robert H. Archer (1820 - 1878). The other Robert H. Archer was the brother of Confederate general James Jay Archer and served in
4864-494: Was also known as Stonewall Jackson . It was published in 1876. She found southern figures of the American Civil War "no less loved, no less honored, and no less brilliant … [Robert E.] Lee and [Stonewall] Jackson" than George Washington . In 1877, her work, "Mrs. Thomas Mann Randolph," was published in Worthy Women of Our First Century , which was edited by Mrs. O. J. Wister and Agnes Irwin . "The Kentucky Resolutions in
4940-424: Was an early influential convert from tobacco to wheat. By 1830, the founders' 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 mill and plaster mill. In 1830, Ellicott's Mills became the first terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad outside Baltimore ,
5016-426: Was born on October 12, 1839, at Edge Hill , Albemarle County, Virginia . She was the daughter of Jane Hollins Nicholas and Thomas Jefferson Randolph . Her great grandfather was Thomas Jefferson . Her father accepted the debts of Thomas Jefferson's estate, which greatly impaired his ability to support his family. He was a farmer and politician, drafting a bill for the gradual emancipation of enslaved people, before
5092-592: Was called into service as a hospital. It was fitted with 50 beds to accommodate wounded veterans returning to the States. In later years, the building was used as a theater and again as a private residence. In 1938, the Howard County School board considered the site for a new school. The guests of the Burg Alnick Hotel used the grounds for shooting clay pigeons. In 1958, the property was sold to
5168-432: Was constructed. Alda Hopkins Clark purchased the Ellicott City First Presbyterian Church to donate it to the Howard County Historical Society. In 1958, The Goddess , a film loosely based on Marilyn Monroe 's life, was shot on location in the city. Before 1962, the only polling location for Howard County voters was in Ellicott City. In May 1962, voters were offered a second location to vote, also in Ellicott City at
5244-473: Was designed by architect Robert Cary Long Jr. and built by Charles Timanus, who also built the Court House . It opened on January 1, 1837 as a girls' finishing school but was more designed under Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps to enable young ladies to be trained well enough to support themselves through teaching; the school remained in operation until 1891. Students at the school ranged from age 12 to 18, and at its peak enrollment there were 150 students attending
5320-479: Was inducted as a new member of Tree City USA . Ellicott City has been home to a large Korean population along its Route 40 corridor, where numerous Korean-owned businesses and restaurants operate. Around 12,000 Korean-Americans currently live in Howard County, officials say. In Ellicott City, they make up 24 percent of the population. In 2017, Governor Larry Hogan dedicated a section of Route 40 from Rogers Avenue to Greenway Drive as "Korean Way", paying homage to
5396-409: Was murdered by Jacob Henson. Henson was tried and sentenced to death. Fearing that Governor Brown might release Henson due to insanity, a group of residents broke into the jail and lynched Henson on Merricks Lane with a sign saying "Brown cannot rule our cort". Governor Brown condemned the citizens and ordered all prisoners sentenced to death be sent to the Maryland Penitentiary from then on. After
5472-522: Was proposed from Baltimore to Ellicott City in 1892, approved on April 20, 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 lasted only two years. The Catonsville & Ellicott City Electric Railway Company rail line was later converted to a hiking trail . In February 1895, shop owner Daniel F. Shea
5548-603: Was published in Famous Women of the Revolution . She wrote about her great grandfather in The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson: Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences that was published in 1871. It discusses the relationship between Thomas Jefferson Randolph and his maternal grandfather Thomas Jefferson . Historian Dumas Malone stated that "nobody has given a better picture of [Jefferson] as
5624-550: Was set up in the post office for civilian defense for the ongoing war effort. In 1943, the Metropolitan District was formed to bring water and sewer to Ellicott City, sponsored by newspaperman P.G. Stromberg , I.H. Taylor, Charles E. Miller , Marray G. Peddicord, John A. Lane, and W. Emil Thompson. In 1955, County Commissioner Norman E. Moxley created the city's first major subdivision, Normandy Heights. The first major shopping center, Normandy Shopping Center,
5700-473: Was started by Leidig's Bakery's faulty air conditioning unit and destroyed six buildings; the 1992 fires were by arson , and the 1999 six-alarm blaze which destroyed five businesses and caused an estimated $ 2 million in damage was accidentally started behind a restaurant by a discarded cigarette . The fairy tale -themed amusement park, the Enchanted Forest , was located in the western part of
5776-492: Was unveiled but after the 2018 flood the plans had to be re-evaluated. A $ 140 million multi-tiered five-year plan was chosen by County officials. The plan includes building a tunnel requiring the removal of nine historic structures. The removal of nine or ten historic buildings was opposed by preservationists as well as residents and Democrat Calvin Ball defeated incumbent Republican Allan Kittleman as county executive. Ball halted
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