The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-09-16
One OF Our Local corrsspOnden.s in

One OF Our Local Correspondents In
Hnrford.--It has been more than year since
sent you any items for your local columns, my
absence from home during the greater part ofthat
time having prevented Il. have often intended
10 drop you few lines while jouFneying BY the
way but like many Of our good intentions they
have not been carried out. The rain Of to-day,
Monday, having compelled me 10 abandon q trip
had In contemplation, determined 10 embrace
the opportunity afforded Of taking up the pencil
again as q correspondent % THE ySi5x.
I begin this letter nj Edgewood, Hartford county,
. station on the y. w. d. H. r., some 20 miles
from Baltimore. This is the place from which
start the stages for Belair and other points 20
which the mail IL carried through Hartford county.
II Is quite lively place, n good deal Of produce
and merchandise being handled here. IL has q
hotel, . livery-stable, store, wheelwright and
blacksmith shop and Of course 4 canning house
Il there village In Hartford that has not one p
besides several dwellings. The appearance Of
many Of the farm houses In the vicinity indicates
that this region was settled long years ago. Just
opposite the station house stands venerable and
substantial old brick dwelling which looks as II Il
might have been erected In Colonial times. Il 10
only one story high, q style Of building that our
forefathers seem 10 have had decided preference
for, while It, large chimney plainly shoss that
when u was built coal, ~ an article Of fuel was
unknown. This place. ! was informed. formed \
part Of the property Of the late Gen. Cadwaiader.
Of Philadelphia, whose possessions covered the
greater portion Of the lands south Of the railroad
from GunpOwder 10 Bush River.
Starting northward from Edgcwood by q we'll
travelled but very sandy road. We met many
wagons. the most Of which were loaded with can.
ned goods. Snug looking farm houses and well.
cultivated fields aanked the road most Of the way.
ride Of some two miles brought US 10 the mills
Of T.. J. Snow 4 Co., weli-known -four merchants Of
Baltimore. and few rods further We reach the
Philadelphia turnpike. Looking eastward another
h-tT ~
distant, while rs we turn westward another lies TO
eur left hand few rods from the turnpike. Our
faces are now towards Baltimore, the road for
somo distance being nearly level and apparently
but little travelled being but the width OF an or.
binary wagon track, and Iigragging along from
side TO side as " TO avoid the places where the
sand was deepest. Here and there an old diiapi-
dated building was passed which showed that
when the turnpike went down Il too went down
with II. Creeping along for mile or two We be.
gin to ascend and finally reach the top of "Pros
poet HILL" about Is miles from Baltimore. From
this cminence there l. said 10 be one Of the finest
views in Maryland. Looking southwark the
Chesapeake bay lies before you like = map. with
all its tributaries from the Susquehannah % the
Patapsco in full view. while In the distance the
rel bluffs Of Kent county are distinctly visible.
Some years ago stood on this hill with the late
Henry Tyson. Eco. Of Baltimore. the well. known
civil engineer. Pointing eastward he said the
view extended entirely across Hartford and Cicil
counties AMI hill dimiy visible In the distane.
he told me was Iron Hin in Delaware.
After an hour spen; In viewing the beau,ies q
the outlook afforded FROM Prospec; Hill. We began
10 descend by much sleeper grade than We
ascendei aud a ride of mile or 80 brough, "a TO
n little village known ~ Joppa 4. a.. Ia, usually
styled by the resident of the vicinity. Rouscs.
Here again the inevitable canning house puts in
it, appearance-thc establishment Of Mr.. J. u.
Hanway. whose good. are we'll known o. the eiti.
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