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New Cut Landfill

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Located in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States, New Cut Landfill, is also referred to as Worthington Park, Worthington Dog Park, and Worthington Elementary. Rock Hill College operated a recreation facility named "Forty Acres on New Cut" between 1894 and 1922.The 83 acre new cut landfill closed in 1980. In 1985 the county sought bids from a Pennsylvania company to burn methane gas in generators. New Cut groundwater was found to be contaminated from deposits of paint solvents. In 1993, the county approved installation of city water around New Cut after contaminants including trichloroethane exceeded federal drinking water levels.In September 2011, 2,000 solar panels were installed on landfill property converted to parkland and later a solar farm. The panels were paid for by a Maryland Department of Energy Grant.

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Spring Hill Farm (Ellicott City, Maryland)

The Spring Hill Farm is a historic slave plantation located in Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, United States. The site south of the Patapsco River produced Native American arrowheads in routine farming. The farm is part of a 1695 900 acre land patent named "Chews Resolution Manor". The property was a gift of Caleb Dorsey of Belmont to his daughter Rebecca and her husband Charles Ridgely creating the parcel "Rebecca's Lot". The main house was built about 1804. The property contains the Spring Hill quarters, a stone structure dating to 1790 built originally as a home for Edward Hill Dorsey. The structure has served as slave quarters, a carriage house with modern remodeling of the interior in the 1950s. The farm was later owned by the Clark family who also resided to the south at Fairfield Farm. Owner Garnett "Booker" Clark used the outbuildings to make and store whiskey during prohibition. Garnett's brother James "Booker" Clark maintained his credibility as a revenue officer by destroying the operation. About ten outbuildings of the farm are identified in 1790 tax rolls. By the 1970s the farm had been subdivided down to two parcels totaling 11 acres, with a large power-line easement and the New Cut Landfill facility occupying the northern tracts. In the year 2000, Glen Mar Church purchased 21 acres of the farmland from the Baugher family with an address of 4701 New Cut Road. In 2004 groundbreaking occurred and in 2008 the church relocated to the site from Glen Mar Road.

Rock Hill College

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Patapsco Hotel
Patapsco Hotel

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