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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPD_northampton-furnace_Lutherville-Timonium-MD.html
Built in 1759 by Charles Ridgely (the Elder) of Hampton and two sons, the iron foundry operated for 70 years on Spring Branch of Patterson's Run. It furnished cannon and shot for the Revolution as well as other supplies: "300 kettles" were ordered…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPC_hampton_Towson-MD.html
Estate of the Ridgely Family from 1745 to 1948. Home of Charles Carnan Ridgely, Govenor of Maryland, 1815-1819. One of the largest Georgian Houses in the United States. Now a National Historic Site. Open to the public.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPB_nicholsons-manor_Reisterstown-MD.html
Patented sixth of August 1719 to William Nicholson, gentleman of Anne Arundel County for 4200 acres. Subdivided in 1757 into four equal parts by Byron Philpot, Junior, Corbin Lee, Kinsey Johns and Roger Boyce.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPA_mt-paran-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery_Randallstown-MD.html
Mt. Paran Church was incorporated September 18, 1841. The chruch was called Soldier's Delight prior to 1841 and that congregation began circa 1776. The oldest legible tombstone is that of Robert Gilchrist, dated October 17, 1767. The oldest known …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP9_soldiers-delight_Owings-Mills-MD.html
Chrome was first discovered in the United States in Baltimore County circa 1808. Isaac Tyson, Jr. operated chromite mines at Soldiers Delight and in other serpentine barrens and from 1828 to 1850 his mines produced almost all the world's chromium.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP7_in-memory-of-william-maxwell-wood-md_Owings-Mills-MD.html
Surgeon General United States Navy, born in Baltimore, Maryland May 21, 1809 and died at Owings Mills, Maryland March 1, 1880. He served his country well.
And in memory of Rosemary Carson, his wife, born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania November 9,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP6_garrison-forest-church_Garrison-MD.html
A frontier parish church authorized by Act of Assembly 1742 as "a Chapel of Ease for the Forest Inhabitants" of Saint Paul's Parish (Baltimore). Reverend Thomas Craddock inducted as first minister January 14, 1745.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP5_trentham_Garrison-MD.html
Named for free school of Trentham, Staffordshire, England, where Reverend Thomas Craddock had taught. When he married High Sheriff John Risteau's daughter, this estate was her dowry. They built a house in 1746 and in 1747 he opened a boy's boardin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP3_glyndon_Glyndon-MD.html
By 1860 the Western Maryland Railroad reached this site. In 1871 Dr. Charles A. Leas employed Augustus Bouldin, surveyor, to plan the town. The railroad and ideal climate encouraged the early development as a resort center with Victorian summer ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP2_emory-grove_Reisterstown-MD.html
Founded in 1868 for the purpose of promoting the cause of morality and religion by holding camp meetings under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Incorporated 1871 and reincorporated 1884 under present name of the Emory Grove Asso…