• Ellicott City Jail (former) Repairs - Ellicott City MD
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) supplied the labor to conduct repairs to the former Ellicott City Jail. Maryland WPA Project No. 181.
  • Patapsco Valley State Park - Ellicott City MD
    "Conservation efforts began in the river valley in 1907 when the Patapsco State Forest Reserve was established. During the Depression years of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) planted trees and built trails, picnic areas, campsites and handsome cut-stone pavilions to improve what had by then become "Patapsco State Park". Company 356 of the Civilian Conservation Corps made its encampment near Lost Lake at Camp Tydings in the Avalon Area. The CCC built the stone picnic shelters in Orange Grove and Glen Artney (not visible from the river). The CCC was also responsible for planting trees in...
  • Post Office (former) - Ellicott City MD
    The historic former Ellicott City post office was constructed ca. 1940 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, presently serves as Howard County's Tourism & Promotion building.
  • Post Office (former) Mural - Ellicott City MD
    This 1942 Section of Fine Arts tempera on plaster mural depicts "Scenes of Old Ellicott City." The mural is 4' by 12' and was painted by R. Dunne for what was the then-new (and now former) Ellicott City post office.