Ellicott City is an unincorporated community on the Patapsco River, west of Baltimore. It is the seat of Howard County. Elllicott City has a population of about 57,000.



Ellicott City began as Ellicott Mills, a community that grew around the mill established by Andrew, John, and Joseph Ellicott. The Ellicotts began a flour mill operation in 1772, and area farmers switched from tobacco to wheat production to supply the mill.



In the early 1800s, Ellicott Mills was a major transportation hub. The National Pike, the first interstate road in the United States, passed through Ellicott Mills in the 1810s from Baltimore en route to Cumberland and the National Road. In 1830, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad established its first terminus outside of Baltimore.



The city was chartered in 1867, and the community changed its name from Ellicott Mills to Ellicott City at that time. The charter was lost in 1935, and Ellicott City became an unincorporated community. Today, Ellicott City is the largest unincorporated county seat in Maryland, and the historical city center spills across the Patapsco River into Baltimore County.






The Gray's School House on Frederick Road. The rowhouses served as a school for workers of the nearby Gray's Mill.



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A house on Frederick Road.



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The Wilkins-Rogers Mill, on Frederick Road. The flour mill was built in 1927 on the site of the Ellicott Mills of 1772.



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Houses on Westchester Avenue.



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The Trolley Stop, formerly McLaughlin's Hotel and built in 1854. In the foreground are the remains of the trolley bridge over Oella Avenue for the Tolley Line #9, which connected Ellicott City with Catonsville to the east.



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The eastern entrance to Ellicott City, from the Frederick Road bridge crossing over the Patapsco River. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad passes over the road. This section of railroad, which goes to the town's railroad station to the left of the edge of the picture, was the first section of railroad laid in the United States.



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The John Ellicott Store, on Main Street. The old store was built in 1790 to act as a market for Ellicott's mills and the surrounding town.



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The Baltimore & Ohio Depot, on Maryland Avenue. The train station was built in 1830, and is the oldest surviving train station in the United States. The station was restored to its 1857 appearance after restoration.



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The station served as the terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad when the station was completed, and the 13 miles from Baltimore to Ellicott City were the first section of railroad track in the United States.




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Buildings on Main Street.



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Businesses on Main Street.



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Buildings on Main Street. The old Taylor's furniture store, opened in 1924, is on the right.



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The old Ellicott Theatre, on Main Street. The theater was built in 1946.



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Buildings on Main Street. The old Post Office, built in 1940, is on the right.



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The Firehouse Museum, on Church Road. The fire house was built in 1889 and served as a station until 1923.



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Buildings on Main Street. The Reedy Electric Company, on the left, was built in the early 1900s. The French restaurant on the right was originally the George Ellicott, Jr. House.




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Old houses on Main Street.



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The Ellicott Mills Brewery, on Main Street. The building was originally the Talbot Lumber COmpany, and was built in 1885.



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Houses on Main Street.



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The Thomas Isaac House, on Main Street. The log cabin was built in 1780 and is the oldest house in Ellicott City.



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St. Luke's African Methodist Episcopal Church, on Main Street. The church was built in 1890.



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A house along Ellicott Mills Drive. The house functioned as the first courthouse in Howard County, for the Howard District of Anne Arundel County in the early 1800s.



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Buildings on Main Street. The Howard House, built in 1850 and expanded to five floors in 1898, is on the right. The old hotel now serves as apartments.




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Taylor's Row, on Old Columbia Pike. The row of buildings was built in the mid-1800s, and originally served as barns and liveries.



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Tongue Row, on Old Columbia Pike. The structures were built in the 1840s.



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Businesses on Main Street.



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Buildings on Main Street.



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Old houses on Main Street, now used as businesses.



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Buildings on Tiber Alley.



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Businesses on Main Street. The strucutre on the right containing several businesses was once the Patapsco Hotel.




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The Ellicott City Jail, on Emory Street. The jail was built in 1878.



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The Old Stone Powell House, on Church Road. The house was built in 1840 and expanded in the late 1800s.



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The old Patapsco Female Institute, along Sarah's Lane on Mount Ida. The school was founded in 1837 on the hill that William Ellicott, grandson of Ellicott Mills co-founder Andrew Ellicott, built his house on. The Institute was abandoned in 1890 and went through other uses before bruning and subsequently being preserved as a historic park in its ruinous state.



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Lawyer's Row, a string of law offices on Court Avenue.



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Law offices on Court Avenue. The Wooten Law Office, built in 1869 and the oldest law office in the county, is in the foreground.



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The old First Presbyterian Church, on Court Avenue. The church was built in 1894 and is now the Howard County Historical Society's home.



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The Howard County Courthouse, on Court Avenue. The courthouse was completed in 1843.




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A house on Church Road.



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Buildings on Church Road. The Ellicott City Church of God, built in 1875, is on the right.



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Rowhouses on St. Paul Street.



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Looking up St. Paul Street. St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, on the top of the hill, was built in 1838 and is the oldest active Catholic parish between Baltimore and Pittsburgh.



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The George Ellicott House, on Frederick Road. The house was built in 1789 and was moved to its present location from the banks of the Patapsco River.



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A house on Frederick Road.



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A house on Frederick Road, near an old switchback up Nine Mile Hill.




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