Went with BHK to visit Amy and her family at a nearby
flyball event. The dogs were adorable and seemed to be having a really good time. Strange to see an event with such a wide variety of breeds.
Stumbled across
Woodbine (at the juncture of the
Patapsco River, the
B&O Railroad, and the road that runs north from
Lisbon to
Winfield, Maryland on Liberty Road (
Maryland Route 26) and through to
Westminster, Maryland. The original road from Baltimore to
Frederick runs just north of Lisbon, following a slight ridge line westward halfway to Woodbine (the road was finally paved in the 1960s). This was the original trail that existed before the National Road was built (the road that runs through Lisbon).
Rebel calvary crossed the Patapsco River at Woodbine and at Hoods Mill, just a few miles eastward on the river and the B&O Railroad scouting the Union Army that was on its way to the Battle of Gettysburg. The main road at that time ran just west of the existing road and up the west side of a creek that runs south and that joins with the Patapsco River just 100 yards west of the existing road. That original road, now partly unused runs north 100 yards from the river and then eastward to join up with the existing road today. There was no bridge at that time, just a ford in the river.
The town straddles the Patapsco River both north (into Carroll County) and South (into Howard County). In the 1920s and 1930s the town had a large canning factory on the Carroll County side of the river . There was another small canning factory, from the turn of the century, run by water power west of Woodbine at the foot of New Port Hill. Remains of the factory still exist and the sluice where water came to run the machinery is still visible in the wooded area below New Port Hill leading north to the dam, no longer existing.
Just north 300 yards and west of the existing road was a wormseed distillery, where
wormseed oil was steam-distilled during the 1930s and 1940s; this small factory was later converted into a tomato and corn canning factory.
(added to wikipedia)
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