Early Ellicott City Black History: A Historic African American Church, A Log Cabin and Lynching

The story of how a group of citizen researchers worked collaboratively in order to correct past omissions and mistakes in the "European settler" story told to decades of Ellicott City Maryland visitors and residents about a beloved log structure there saved by preservationists. The authors never imagined that in the process, they would discover a small homeowning community of Black and Mulatto families living in Ellicott City years before the Civil War and that a Mulatto man is actually who...