This is the number of schools that the Howard County Public School System manages.
What is the number 74 (+/- 5)?
100
It is the oldest railroad station in America.
What is the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad Station Museum?
100
This park covers 325 acres and loops around a lake.
What is Centennial Park?
100
This museum exhibits many different types of firefighting apparatus. It also contains documents and newspaper articles that recount important events in the history of Howard County’s Volunteer Fire Department.
What is the Ellicott City Firehouse Museum?
100
This is a family owned farm where visitors can pick organic fruits and vegetables.
What is Larriland Farm?
200
This school was built in 1952, making it the oldest building currently in use as a public high school.
What is Howard High School?
200
This park is dedicated to soccer with its 8 fields, and it is a popular site for local soccer games and tournaments.
What is Covenant Park?
200
This museum is home to a large display of "classic instruments from Scotland." It is the only museum of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Bagpipe Museum?
200
This was a fairy-tale themed amusement park in Ellicott City; it was the second theme park in the USA. It closed in 1988.
What is the Enchanted Forest?
300
It is a former girls' boarding school that is now in ruins in Ellicott City.
What is the Patapsco Female Institute?
300
This park covers 77 acres of land and has three baseball fields, two basketball courts, two picnic pavilions, and an athletic complex.
What is Meadowbrook Park?
300
This building was constructed by an early settler of Ellicott’s Mills, and contains historians and artisans that provide information concerning the settlement and development of the local area.
What is the Thomas Isaac Log Cabin?
400
This 399 acre facility does groundbreaking research on more than 600 projects. The Johns Hopkins University sponsors this facility.
What is the Applied Physics Lab?
400
This park covers 14,000 acres of land and offers facilities for canoeing, biking, fishing, hiking, horseback riding and picnicking.
What is Patapsco Park?
400
This museum displays artifacts, photographs, documents, and other personal items from five generations of the Ellicott family.
What is the Historical Society Museum?
400
This manor was built for William Elliott by Charles Timanus (designed by N.G. Starkweather), and is the last manor to be built for an Ellicott inside the city's limits as then defined. It is currently owned by Paul L. Miller and sits next to court facilities.
What is Mt. Ida?
500
It is a one-room schoolhouse built in 1880, and it served as the first public school for African Americans in Howard County.
What is the Ellicott City Colored School?
500
This 26 acre park features interconnecting ponds and boardwalks, allowing visitors to observe and study the wetlands and their wildlife.
What is Font Hill Wetland Park?
500
This relatively small building contains photographs, a diorama, and a timeline that detail the fires, floods, and Ellicott family that have all affected the city.
What is the Heritage Orientation Center?
500
It is the oldest church building still in use. It was constructed in 1809.