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Joseph Ellicott, who with his brothers Andrew and John had established Ellicott’s Lower Mills, now Ellicott City, on the Patapsco River in 1772, built the Upper Mills and his home on Fountaindale near this spot in 1775. Remaining gravestones of the adjoining family burying ground were moved in 1974 to the Ellicott graveyard in Ellicott City.
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Ellicott City, Maryland · United States
