Mount Joy (sometimes called Santa Fe) is a historic slave plantation in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, which has a current address of 5000 Executive Park Drive.
| Mountjoy Farm | |
|---|---|
 Mount Joy in 2015 | |
| Location | Ellicott City, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39°14′15.5″N 76°49′09″W / 39.237639°N 76.81917°W |
| Area | Ellicott City |
| Built | Early 19th century |
| Architectural style(s) | Greek Revival |
  Location of Mountjoy Farm in Maryland | |
The farm is located on the original land grant named Chews Resolution Manor. In 1810, Dr. Arthur Pue owned land around modern Route 100. Pue was the family doctor for the Gorman family, who Senator Arthur Pue Gorman is named after. The Pue family farmed the property with 19 slaves. In 1851, Samuel Wethered Jr. purchased 206 acres of farmland, creating "Santa Fe" from Dr. Pue. In 1912, 193 acres of the property was purchased by the Buck Family. On October 10, 1980, the estate was purchased by K&M Development Corporation (Brantly Development Group Corporation) for $532,000. In 2003, Winchester Homes purchased the site.
The main farm building is an L-shaped layout built of brick with a stone foundation, built about 1851. In 2003 the remaining 86 acres of the site was subdivided and outbuilding were demolished for a Winchester Homes Subdivision, leaving the farmhouse remaining. A barn was offered to the Howard County Conservancy to relocate off the historic setting. [1] [2]
Outbuildings
edit- Dairy barn – Built before 1798, moved to a stone foundation between 1815 and 1840. Moved to Woodstock, Maryland, in 2003.[3]
- Stone kitchen – two-story. Collapsed in the winter of 2002.
- Log smokehouse
- Frame garage
- Bank barn – A good condition building, demolished by Winchester Homes.
- Granary – A good condition building, demolished by Winchester Homes.
- Chicken coop
- Tenant houses (2) – Developer Winchester homes concluded that the wooden lath holding plaster was circular-sawn, so the entire house was newer than 1850, and was not worth preservation, although the date of the plaster installation was undocumented.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Amanda Yeager (21 August 2014). "The keepers of Howard County history". The Baltimore Sun.
- ^ "HO-145 Mountjoy Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Mountjoy Farm". 22 August 2014.