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

Elkridge Farm
Elkridge Farm is located in Maryland
Elkridge Farm
Location of Elkridge Farm in Maryland
Nearest cityEllicott City, Maryland
Coordinates39°15′02″N 76°50′33″W / 39.25056°N 76.84250°W / 39.25056; -76.84250
Built1913

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.[1] Senator James A. Clark, Jr. was a nephew who traveled to the property regularly from Keewaydin Farm, down the unimproved Montgomery Road.[2] 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.[3] A Target store in Long Gate shopping center now occupies the site.[4]

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  1. ^ Joshua Dorsey Warfield. The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. p. 534.
  2. ^ James A Clark Jr. Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator. p. 20.
  3. ^ Atlantic Reporter, Volume 114. p. 723.
  4. ^ Marsha Wight Wise. Ellicott City. p. 67.