Mountjoy Farm

Mount Joy (sometimes called Santa Fe) is a historic slave plantation in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, which has a current address of 9097 Executive Park Drive.

Mountjoy Farm
Mount Joy in 2015
LocationEllicott City, Maryland
Coordinates39°10′00″N 76°40′00″W
AreaEllicott City
BuiltEarly 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 a 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
  • Dairy Barn - Built before 1798, moved to a stone foundation between 1815-1840. 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

References
  1. Amanda Yeager (21 August 2014). "The keepers of Howard County history". The Baltimore Sun.
  2. "HO-145 Mountjoy Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  3. "Mountjoy Farm". 22 August 2014.
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