Historical Marker
Ellicotts Mills
Historical marker location:
Ellicott City, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Maryland Route 144) and Ellicott Mills Drive, on the right on Main Street.)
A Town Divided.
Maryland was once a center of the slave trade: Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that allowed slavery, and by the mid-18th century, it had become a major center of the domestic slave trade. Maryland slave traders sold enslaved people to plantation owners in other southern colonies and to the Caribbean.