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Cooksville, Maryland
Cooksville is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. As of 2016, the population was 631. The town was founded by Thomas Cook in 1802. The crossroads town was anchored by the Joshua Roberts Tavern, where General Lafayette visited in 1824. The inn was destroyed by fire, rebuilt, and demolished a second time. Thomas Cook exchanged his stake in Cooksville with Thomas Beale Dorsey for the 231-acre Round About Hills slave plantation. A Post Office opened on the 4th of July 1851, the same year Howard County was formed from a portion of Anne Arundel County. Roberts Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. On June 29, 1863, J. E. B. Stuart marched 5000 confederate soldiers through Cooksville en route to Westminster. See also *Inwood, Maryland Inwood is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. The crossroads settlement was settled around Woodlawn, home of Dr. Edwin Warfield, which has been remove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have no unincorporated areas at all or these are very rare: typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or List of uninhabited regions, uninhabited areas. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local government in Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster, Maryland
Westminster is a city in northern Maryland, United States. It is the seat of Carroll County. The city's population was 18,590 at the 2010 census. Westminster is an outlying community within the Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA, which is part of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA. History William Winchester (1706-1790) purchased approximately 167 acres of land called White's Level in 1754 which became known as the city of Winchester. The Maryland General Assembly later changed the name of the town to Westminster to avoid confusion with Winchester, the seat of nearby Frederick County, Virginia. On June 28, 1863, the cavalry skirmish known as Corbit's Charge was fought in the streets of Westminster, when two companies of Delaware cavalry attacked a much larger Confederate force under General J. E. B. Stuart, during the Gettysburg Campaign. In April 1865, Joseph Shaw, newspaper editor, had his presses wrecked and his business destroyed, and was subsequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooksville, Maryland
Cooksville is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. As of 2016, the population was 631. The town was founded by Thomas Cook in 1802. The crossroads town was anchored by the Joshua Roberts Tavern, where General Lafayette visited in 1824. The inn was destroyed by fire, rebuilt, and demolished a second time. Thomas Cook exchanged his stake in Cooksville with Thomas Beale Dorsey for the 231-acre Round About Hills slave plantation. A Post Office opened on the 4th of July 1851, the same year Howard County was formed from a portion of Anne Arundel County. Roberts Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. On June 29, 1863, J. E. B. Stuart marched 5000 confederate soldiers through Cooksville en route to Westminster. See also *Inwood, Maryland Inwood is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. The crossroads settlement was settled around Woodlawn, home of Dr. Edwin Warfield, which has been remove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red House Tavern
The Red House Tavern is located in Cooksville in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It was situated midway along the Old Frederick Road between Baltimore and Frederick, used as a rest stop for travelers. The house is the birthplace of Thomas Cook born in 1768, who founded Cooksville in 1802. The -story-tall stone house was built in the 18th century when the region consisted mostly of slave-operated tobacco plantations. The building was built with a high pitched roof and dormers. The house was described by Ferdinand Baynard in his 1791 writings as a "rather poor" tavern, kept by a widow of "admirable reserve". George Washington was reported to have stayed at the inn during his travels along the main western road of the era. The original kitchen was located in the basement of the stone building with iron bars set to discourage looting. A log house is situated southwest of the building. A frame kitchen addition was later added to the rear of the building. In 1976, the prope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleasant Valley, (Cooksville, Maryland)
Located Cooksville near Sykesville in Howard County, Maryland, United States, Pleasant Valley, known as Lost by Neglect. The historic house is located on a portion of the 100-acre land grant named "Good Neighborhood" surveyed by Adam Shipley in 1742. In 1754, the section was part of a 103-acre land grant surveyed by Mordecai Selby Sr. called "Selby's Inheritance" and resurveyed as a 226-acre lot in 1775 as "Lost by Neglect". The original structure was built with stone construction in 1754. In 1859, a wooden addition was built by Henry Forsythe and given the name Pleasant Valley. In 1888 Henry Forsythe moved to the neighboring "Oaklands" plantation, leaving the estate in the hands of his heirs. Outbuilding include two barns, one of which was built with peg construction situated on land that has been subdivided from the estate. By 1976, the estate has been subdivided leaving only 14 acres of the original parcel remaining. See also *List of Howard County properties in the Maryland H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poverty Discovered
Located Cooksville in Howard County, Maryland, United States, Poverty Discovered, "Summer Hill Farm" "Poverty Discovered" is named after the 1737 acre land tract Given to Joseph Hobbs by Lord Calvert in 1760. It was then owned by Captain Thomas Hobbs, who was involved in the burning of the Peggy Stewart. He willed the property to his son, Kentucky General Assemblyman Joseph Hobbs Jr. The slave farm was situated on the road to Ellicott's Mills from Hood's Mill. By 1783, "Poverty Discovered" was subdivided and consisted of 400 acres. On November 3, 1793, Henry Howard sold the Poverty Discovered estate of James Beached at public auction. The Poverty Discovered plantation house was built c. 1760. It is log construction with brick and stone construction additions with left-centered doors. Outbuildings include a log framed structure. In the 1930s a porch was enclosed for a kitchen. William J Bryson owned the house in the 1970s and substantial renovations occurred in 1989. The buildin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Jane Powell Log Cabin
Sarah Jane Powell Log Cabin, is a historic home located at Cooksville, Howard County, Maryland, United States. In 1850, Thomas Hood was one of three founding county commissioners of Howard County. In 1859 Thomas Hood built the log cabin on his property for his slave Sarah Jane Powell (born 1827) for her "unwavering fidelity and general moral worth as a servant". The cabin is a 3-bay-wide, -story-tall structure with a brick fireplace. Sarah Jane Powell married Alfred Dorsey, and had their first child in the cabin in 1865. In May 1869, the -acre property the cabin resided on named "Poverty Discovered" was deeded to Sarah Jane Dorsey. The cabin has been occupied by over seven generations of Dorseys, with a family graveyard located on the property. The property is just north of a former crossroads town named Inwood, and adjacent to a 30-acre parcel owned by the Board of Education in the 1970s, which has not been developed. See also *List of Howard County properties in the Maryland H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipley's Adventure (Cooksville, Maryland)
Shipley's Adventure is a historic plantation home located in Cooksville and ( Woodbine) Howard County, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to .... The house is the homestead of George Shipley, and Catherine Ogg and was part of the 1260 acre "Shipley's Adventure" land grant patented on 7 April 1761. In 1790, "Shipley's Enlargement" was added to the estate. The house is built around a 1761 log cabin containing a loft which windows have been added. In 1972 a family room was added to the "telescoping" building. The estate has been subdivided down to 16.53 acres by the 1970s with the Perilla family converting the agricultural land for wine making. See also * Curtis-Shipley Farmstead References {{reflist Cooksville, Maryland Houses completed in 1761 Howard County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inwood, Maryland
Inwood is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. The crossroads settlement was settled around Woodlawn, home of Dr. Edwin Warfield, which has been removed for the Gary J. Arthur Community Center and Cooksville Library. The town once featured a general store, blacksmith shop and residential homes. The neighborhood postal service is now consolidated around Cooksville Cooksville may refer to: Places ;Canada * Cooksville (Mississauga), a neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada **Cooksville GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the neighbourhood **Mississauga East—Cooksville, an electo .... Inwood is a very small historic town located between Cooksville and Glenwood. See also *Bushy Park * Shipley's Adventure (Cooksville, Maryland) * Sarah Jane Powell Log Cabin References Unincorporated communities in Howard County, Maryland Unincorporated communities in Maryland {{HowardCountyMD-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard County, Maryland
Howard County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 287,085. As of the 2020 census its population rose to 328,200. Its county seat is Ellicott City. Howard County is included in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also part of the larger Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area. Recent south county development has led to some realignment towards the Washington, D.C. media and employment markets. The county is home to Columbia, a major planned community of approximately 100,000 founded in 1967. Howard County is frequently cited for its affluence, quality of life, and excellent schools. Its estimated 2016 median household income of $120,194 raised it to the second-highest median household income of any U.S. county. Many of the most affluent communities in the area, such as Clarksville, Dayton, Glenelg, Glenwood, and West Friendship, are located along the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
The National Postal Museum, located opposite Union Station in Washington, D.C., United States, covers large portions of the Postal history of the United States and other countries. It was established through joint agreement between the United States Postal Service and the Smithsonian Institution and opened in 1993. Premises The museum is located across the street from Union Station, in the building that served as the main post office of Washington, D.C. for decades, from its construction in 1914 until 1986. The building was designed by the Graham and Burnham architectural firm, which was led by Ernest Graham following the death of Daniel Burnham in 1912. The headquarters of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics is based in this building, and there is also space for a data center for the United States Senate. Displays The museum holds the National Philatelic Collection. It has hosted many interactive displays about the history of the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
