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Woodbine is an unincorporated rural community in Howard and Carroll counties,
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, west of
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, north of
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, and east of Mount Airy. The community was named for the woodbine plant, which grew in the community in fields and along riverbanks.


Background

Woodbine is located at the juncture of the Patapsco River, the
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, and the road that runs north from Lisbon to Winfield on Liberty Road ( Maryland Route 26) and through to
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. The original road from Baltimore to
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runs just north of Lisbon, following a slight ridge line westward half way to Woodbine (the road was finally paved in the 1960s). This was the original trail that existed before the
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was built (the road that runs through Lisbon).


History

During the
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, Confederate cavalry crossed the Patapsco River at Woodbine and at Hoods Mill, just a few miles east on the river and the
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, scouting a
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that was on its way to the
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. The main road at that time ran just west of the existing road and up the west side of a creek that runs south and that joins with the Patapsco River just 50 yards west of the existing road. That original road, now partly unused, runs north 100 yards from the river and then Eastward (Gum Road) to join up with the existing road today. There was no bridge across the Patapsco River at that time, just a ford in the river. The town straddles the Patapsco River to the north (into Carroll County) and south (into Howard County). A new concrete bridge was constructed between 1916 and 1917. In the 1920s and 1930s the town had a large canning factory on the Carroll County side of the river. There was another small canning factory, from the turn of the century, run by water power west of Woodbine at the foot of New Port Hill. Remains of the factory still exist, and the sluice where water (from Gillis Falls Run) came to run the machinery is still visible in the wooded area below New Port Hill leading north to the dam, no longer existing. Just north, 300 yards up the hill and west of the existing road (SR 94) on John Pickett Road, was a wormseed distillery, where wormseed oil was steam-distilled. This small factory was later converted into the Woodbine Canning Factory, canning tomatoes, corn, and peas. The factory burned in June 1933 and was converted to a paper mill in the 1950s.


Notable people

*
Larry E. Haines Larry Eugene Haines (April 11, 1938 – January 13, 2024) was an American politician who was a Republican member of the Maryland Senate from 1991 to 2011. Background Larry Haines was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1991 to represent district 5 ...
, Maryland state senator * Alex Horwath, soccer player * Albin Owings Kuhn, first chancellor and chief planner of the
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campus *
Albert Levitt Albert Levitt (March 14, 1887 – June 18, 1968) was an American judge, law professor, attorney, and candidate for political office. While he was a memorable teacher at Washington and Lee University, and as judge of the United States District ...
, jurist * Kyle Snyder, Olympic gold medalist wrestler *
Tony Massenburg Tony Arnel Massenburg (born July 31, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player. He shares a National Basketball Association (NBA) record with Chucky Brown, Joe Smith & Jim Jackson for having played with twelve different teams o ...
* Alyssa Parker, field hockey player * David H. Berger, General, USMC, 38th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, (11 Jul 2019 - current)


See also

* Cherry Grove, HO-1 * Gary, Maryland * Oakdale Manor * Sunnyside (Woodbine, Maryland)


References


External links

* http://www.hometownlocator.com/City/Woodbine-Maryland.cfm * http://www.google.com/maps?q=Woodbine,+MD,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Howard County, Maryland Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Maryland Unincorporated communities in Maryland