Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 – Hidden Histories
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The First Settlements
1.3 When Howard County was in Baltimore County
1.4 Elkridge Landing
1.5 Guilford
1.6 Early Post Offices
1.7 "The Forgotten Howard Countian - Color Me Black"
Chapter 2 – Falls and Grist Mills
2.1 The First Mill
2.2 Guilford Mill
2.3 Hammond’s Lost Mill
2.4 Ellicott Brothers and Bartholomew Balderston
2.5 Owings Mills in HoCo
Chapter 3 – Stone that Built HoCo
3.1 Digging Putney and Riddle
3.2 Into the Washington Monument
3.3 Guilford and Waltersville Company
Chapter 4 – Cotton Mills
4.1 Joshua Barney the Guilford Pirate
4.2 Williams Brothers and John Savage
4.3 Becoming Guilford Factory
Chapter 5 – B&O Railroad
5.1 First and Last Bollman Bridges
5.2 Patuxent Branch Line
5.3 Between the Pratt Bridges
5.4 Gabbro Quarries
Chapter 6 – Seeking Freedom
6.1 Early Black Landowners
6.2 Freetown
6.3 Collins Family Insurrection
6.4 Harriet Tubman Slept Here, or Did She?
6.5 Maryland Colonization Society
6.6 Jim Crow
Chapter 7 – Public Education
7.1 Railroad Carroll
7.2 Hezekiah Brown
7.3 Guilford’s Rosenwald School
7.4 New Segregated Guilford Elementary School
7.5 Segregation to Integration
7.6 The Children are Watching
Chapter 8 – Guilford’s Hey Days
8.1 Maryland Granite Company
8.2 Rev. Willis J. Carter
8.3 Guilford Days
8.4 1920’s Murder Mystery
Chapter 9 – Savage Neighbors
9.1 Savage Mill History
9.2 Becoming Savage Factory
9.3 A Real Christmas Story
9.4 First Public Library Building
9.5 Once Upon a Sundown Town
Chapter 10 – Columbia’s Development
10.1 Little Town that Wouldn’t Die
10.2 Recommissioning the Patuxent Branch Railroad
10.3 Alternate Realities – Quarries and a Theme Park
10.4 Alternate Realities – Landfill and a Theme Park (again)
Chapter 11 – Forgotten Graveyards
11.1 Eliza Marlow
11.2 Mary Polton and John Carroll
11.3 David Carroll – from Savage to Woodberry
11.4 African American Burials
11.5 Lonely Civil War Grave Site
Appendix 1 – Land Records
Notes
Selected Bibliography