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Sykesville, Maryland
Sykesville is a small town in Howard and Carroll counties, Maryland, United States. The town lies west of Baltimore and north of Washington D.C. The population was 4,436 at the 2010 census. History Prior to European colonization, the area that is now Sykesville was used as a hunting ground by Native Americans from the Susquehannock and Lenape nations. By the late 1800s, many Europeans (predominantly from Germany and Scotland) had settled in Sykesville in pursuit of farming and mining. The land on which Sykesville sits started out as part of the Springfield Estate, a slave plantation owned by wealthy Baltimore shipbuilder William Patterson.Maryland Historical Trust, Annapolis, MD"Sykesville Historic District."''National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form.'' Filed August 14, 1985; accessed 2011-03-20. In 1803, Patterson's daughter Elizabeth, married Napoléon Bonaparte's younger brother Jérôme, but when she arrived in Europe as Jérôme's bride, Napolà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sykesville Historic District
The Sykesville Historic District encompasses the center of Sykesville, Maryland. Sykesville is a small incorporated town in the Patapsco River valley in southern Carroll County, Maryland, and is located on the old Old Main Line Subdivision, main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), one of the first railroad lines in the United States, that section dating from 1831. The B&O train station is included in the district, next to the river. It was designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin, E. Francis Baldwin in the Queen Anne Style architecture (United States), Queen Anne style and built in 1883. It is currently a restaurant having outdoor seating on the original platform (only goods trains now pass). Other historically significant buildings in the district were built between the 1850s and the 1920s. See also * Salopha (Sykesville, Maryland) References External links * , including photo in 2002, at Maryland Historical Trust Sykesville Historic District boundary mapTown of Sykesv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |