Ellicott City Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

Ellicott City Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in, and the county seat of, Howard County, Maryland, United States. Part of the Baltimore metropolitan area, its population was 65,834 at the 2010 census, making it the mo ...

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-Colu ...

. The Ellicott City Station is a

National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...

located within the district. The district encompasses a predominantly 19th century mill town whose origins date to 1772, including more than 200 18th- and 19th-century buildings. (See corresponding photo set published at National Park Service: ). It was listed on the

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 v ...

in 1978. The 2016 Maryland flood severely impacted the historic district on July 30, 2016, as did another flood on May 27, 2018.(1)
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(4) It includes the Saint Paul Catholic Church, a church where

Babe Ruth George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Su ...

got married.

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* (apparently 325 pages, slow to load, not verified) Accompanying (loads okay, verified March 14, 2018) *, including photo in 2003, at Maryland Historical Trust website
Boundary Map of the Ellicott City Historic District, Howard County
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Ellicott City, Maryland
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Main Street, Ellicott City
on Wikimedia Commons Buildings and structures in Ellicott City, Maryland Historic districts in Howard County, Maryland Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Howard County, Maryland {{HowardCountyMD-NRHP-stub

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