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Elkridge Farm

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Year built
  
1913

Nearest city
  
Ellicott City

Elkridge Farm

Elkridge Farm, is a historic slave plantation located in Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, United States.

In 1913, James Booker Clark built a mansion resembling the White House to house seven children. James Booker was the son of James Clark, Jr., a Confederate soldier who went into the livestock and banking trade after the war. Senator James A. Clark, Jr. was a nephew who traveled to the property regularly from Keewaydin Farm, down the unimproved Montgomery Road. The plantation house was destroyed by fire on 2 July 1920, with a cracked water reservoir, at a time when James Booker Clark was facing litigation against his family, Garnett Y Clark, for a failed coal mine project. A Target store in Long Gate shopping center now occupies the site.

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Elkridge Farm Wikipedia