Ellicott City

On Saturday Skyeler took me to the historic Ellicott City here in Maryland. It is actually a really cool old town that has a lot of Historic sites. OK so Maryland in general has A LOT of really cool historic sites like battle fields and Annapolis is a short drive away as well. Anyway Ellicott city is a really old farming/milling city.


Above this bridge are railroad tracks!




The old buildings!




An old mill that obviously isn't still standing except for two walls.

Ellicott also has a B & O RR station!




Me in front of the B&O RR.


Skyeler in front of the B&O RR station.





Skyeler visited Ellicott City a couple weeks ago with his photography class and so he knew about the B&O RR. For some reason I didn't put it together that the B&O RR was one of the Rail Roads on Monopoly. CRAZY! So I kinda feel special that I have seen it. Eventually I will go and take the tour of the Rail Road station but it was $6.00 bucks a person. Ya it isn't that much but it didn't even take us 30 min to get there and it is worth it to go back again.

Some of the History of Ellicott City is that it has flooded many many times.


This is a history line showing the year and the height of the waters during each flood. For example at the top in the year 1868 it rose to 21.5 ft and fairly recently in 1972 it rose 14.5 ft.


This is where the levels were at last Saturday. It is actually really hard to believe that the water rose to those heights.

For lunch Skyeler and I packed our own. (Good thing we did because 1 scoop of ice cream was 2.00 bucks) Skyeler wanted to share with me the experience of an MRE! Sky had these while at basic and said they were good. So we picked a couple up at the Commonsary (grocery store on post) and took them with us. Skyeler and I we shared some chili and with it was m&m's, sugar cookies, pretzels, apple sauce, and powers for a cuppachino and coffee. Needless to say we didn't use those.


We did buy 2 but only ate one of them.




Chili was kinda spicy but good. I will admit that Skyeler can make a lot better chili and not to brag to much but I like my applesauce better. But the process of heating the chili is really cool. You put it in a bag and when you pour in the water there is a chemical reaction that basically boils the water and heats your food. It was really cool.

I really enjoyed my time in Ellicott City. I learned a lot and I think I will go back especially since there is tours of a haunted building! That will be going on in two parts until November if any of you are interested.
I am so excited to continue to explore the area and see more Historical cities/towns. It really makes you interested in our countries history. A lot better than reading it from a textbook in history class.