Edgewood Farm
historic site in Ellicott City, MD
Edgewood Farm is a historic farm located at Ellicott City next to Clarksville and Columbia, Howard County, Maryland, United States.
The historic 253 acre farm is affiliated with the Dorsey, Clark and Gaither families of Howard County. The property was once part of the Charles Carroll Estate. A wood framed farm house was built onsite, as well as a stone barn. A nineteenth century onsite cemetery contains the remains of several of the Clark and Dorsey family.
On 18 May 1833, William Gibbons inherited the property in a trust before the formation of Howard County from Anne Arundel County. The property was conveyed to Michael Dorsey, then Owen Dorsey. The farm passed ownership several times to Mr and Mrs. W. Clark Gaither.
The county's only major aircraft incident occurred at Homewood in 1962.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Edgewood Farm” as historic site in Ellicott City, MD. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as historic site in Ellicott City, MD. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18149746. Authority coordinates are 39.237, -76.896. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1833 and 1962.
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