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Place Name
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Ellicott City
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Pronunciation
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E-li-kut
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Place Status (Type)
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village
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Capital Of
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Howard County
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Population
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41,396 (1990)
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Location
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Howard County, Maryland (MD), United States, North America
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Latitude
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39°16'N
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Longitude
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76°50'W
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Ellicott City
(E-li-kut), village (1990 pop. 41,396), 
Howard co., in Baltimore and Howard cos., central Md., on Patapsco R.,
and 11 mi/18 km WSW of downtown Baltimore;
39°16'N 76°50'W. Trade center in agr. area (wheat, corn, hay); mfg.
(doughnut machines, prepared flour mixes, feed, shirts). The community
grew up around Ellicotts' Mills, one of whose founders, Joseph
Ellicott, was the father of the surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, who redrew
L'Enfant's plans of Washington for Thomas Jefferson.
Ellicott was helped by Benjamin Banneker, his protege and an
early black scientist. Ellicott also surveyed the boundaries of several
states, among them Florida's. Another brother, Joseph, founded
Buffalo, N.Y. The exterior of the stone Baltimore and Ohio
station has changed little since the first horse-cars were hauled here
from Baltimore on May 24, 1830. The private Doughoregan Manor
(c.1735-1745), the home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only
Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, contains a richly
furnished Catholic chapel from the days when public celebration of Mass
was forbidden. Other notable sights include the Log Cabin (c.1780) and
Angelo Cottage (c.1831) and the gutted walls of Patapsco Female Inst.
(c.1829). Patapsco State Park nearby. Flour mill built here (1774) was
nucleus of settlement of Ellicott Mills; inc. and renamed 1867;
reverted (1935) to uninc. status.
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