Elkridge Farm, is a historic slave plantation located in Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, United States.
| Elkridge Farm | |
|---|---|
  Location of Elkridge Farm in Maryland | |
| Nearest city | Ellicott City, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39°15′02″N 76°50′33″W / 39.25056°N 76.84250°W |
| Built | 1913 |
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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