Woodbine, Maryland
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Woodbine is an unincorporated rural community in Howard and Carroll counties, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Baltimore metropolitan area. It is located southeast of Frederick, west of Baltimore, north of Washington, D.C., and east of Mount Airy. The community was named for the woodbine plant, which grew in the community in fields and along riverbanks.
Background
Woodbine is located at the juncture of the
History
During the
The town straddles the Patapsco River to the north (into Carroll County) and south (into Howard County). A new concrete bridge was constructed between 1916 and 1917.[2] In the 1920s and 1930s the town had a large canning factory on the Carroll County side of the river. There was another small canning factory, from the turn of the century, run by water power west of Woodbine at the foot of New Port Hill. Remains of the factory still exist, and the sluice where water (from Gillis Falls Run) came to run the machinery is still visible in the wooded area below New Port Hill leading north to the dam, no longer existing.
Just north, 300 yards up the hill and west of the existing road (SR 94) on John Pickett Road, was a wormseed distillery, where wormseed oil was steam-distilled. This small factory was later converted into the Woodbine Canning Factory, canning tomatoes, corn, and peas. The factory burned in June 1933 and was converted to a paper mill in the 1950s.[3]
Notable people
- Larry E. Haines, Maryland state senator
- Alex Horwath, soccer player
- Albin Owings Kuhn, first chancellor and chief planner of the UMBC campus
- Albert Levitt, jurist
- Kyle Snyder, Olympic gold medalist freestyle wrestler, three-time NCAA wrestling champion at Ohio State
- Tony Massenburg
- Alyssa Parker, field hockey player
- David H. Berger, General, USMC, 38th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, (11 Jul 2019 - 10 Jul 2023)
- Scott Foster (basketball), gambler
See also
- Cherry Grove, HO-1
- Gary, Maryland
- Oakdale Manor
- Sunnyside (Woodbine, Maryland)[4]
References
- ^ "Zip Code Overview". Sperling's BestPlaces. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
- ^ Maryland State Roads Commission. Report of the State Roads Commission of Maryland for the Years 1920. p. 27.
- ^ Howard County Historical Society. Images of America Howard County. p. 75.
- ^ Seeking Freedom The History of the Underground Railroad in Howard County. p. 82.