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Elkridge Farm
Elkridge Farm is located in Maryland
Elkridge Farm
Location of Elkridge Farm in Maryland
Nearest cityEllicott City, Maryland
Built1913

Elkridge Farm, is a historic slave plantation located in Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, United States.

In 1913, James Booker Clark built a mansion resembling the White House to house seven children. James Booker was the son of James Clark, Jr., a Confederate soldier who went into the livestock and banking trade after the war.[1] Senator James A. Clark, Jr. was a nephew who traveled to the property regularly from Keewaydin Farm, down the unimproved Montgomery Road.[2] The plantation house was destroyed by fire on 2 July 1920, with a cracked water reservoir, at a time when James Booker Clark was facing litigation against his family, Garnett Y Clark, for a failed coal mine project.[3] A Target store in Long Gate shopping center now occupies the site.[4]

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References

  1. ^ Joshua Dorsey Warfield. The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. p. 534.
  2. ^ James A Clark Jr. Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator. p. 20.
  3. ^ Atlantic Reporter, Volume 114. p. 723.
  4. ^ Marsha Wight Wise. Ellicott City. p. 67.