The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-08-23
A Trip TO Old Baltimore and other
Points in Bush River Neck.
Read Before the Hartford Historical >ocirty,
August l?th, 1889.
BY GEORGE ". ARCHER.
No. l..

August 18th, 1889.
BY GEORGE ". ARCHER.
MOL.
Having, since our last meeting, made Il trir
TO the site of Old Baltimore, on Bush river,
purpose giving Il running account of what
saw there, as well as elsewhere in that histoI,
ically interesting rcgion,-rescrving iOr
some future occasion more elaborate paper.
Taking as guide the Rev. Mr. Lenklu s
account of his exploration Of the spot some
fourteen years ago, ! found many changes
But before comparing his description Of the
old site at that time with its present appear,
ance will, for the better understanding Of
the subject, describe briefly the features ot The
country Whereabouts. Thecorr>C of Bush river
is almost due south. Oid Baltimore is d.
reCtly on its east bank, about four miles
from It's mouth, and nearly opposite famous
resort for fishing parties and pic MICS made
up, every year, OF pleasure seekers from the
uplands. Hundreds have fshcd, troiiCEed
and oated therC-myse!t among the number
without once dreaming that Just across
the river, n huli-mie from the scene of tNCiI
rcvcls, ships from transatlantic ports, more
than two hundred years ago, were wont t.
take in and discharge their CuIgOts; that a
town stood there that courts were held
culprirs immurcd, pilloricd or perhaps tX-
eCuted, MS the case might be, while ferry
over which nearly all travellers between the
north and south (tcw though they may have
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land ON which its stands is itself called Old
Baltimore, and like all the land in that i'm.
melinte vicinity il very fertile II snOw the
property of Mr., Jas. l.. Richardson, who has
lately built, within few hundred yards OF
the water, neat residence And for aught
! know he may be liupul descendant of that
Mark Richardson who figured on that very
spot more than two centuries ago rs one OF
his LOrdshp's Justices of the Peace, which
in that day was an honor much sought after
Mr.. Richardson's new dwelling stands with.
in few steps of the public road which runs
almost due south from Perrymausville to.
wards the bay, along the middle of this fertile
little peninsula, or neck.
The view on approaching the old site is, a.
already stated, greatly changed from the time
Of Mr.. Leukin's visit, only some fourteen
years since.
"The long row Of venerable ccdars" has dis
appeared before the axe OF the modern i'm
proven, so-calcd, though Just such II row is
sill to be seen few hundred yards to the
north. In place of "the :udc fence" then
"enClosing the whole site" has been suhsti.
tuted one of modern construction, while
the 1.-TWO houses such AS were used for ser.
wants on plantation" have given place tc
the owners residence already mentioned
And not only has the Anticipated wcll-swerI
dsappeared. but the well Itself has been fill
ed in, and onlva Slight depression Of he sur
face remains to mark the spot "whr,r the
servants of Old Baltimore" as Mr.. Leakin
supposrs, once drew their supplies ol
water" In fact, ON this palt of tine site
some four hundred wards from the shore
nothing Int Ihe barn. which may have Ind q
parting GLIMPSE of the last century, looks at nj
DID,
The farm is in AN excellent state of culiiya
walton. The field which includes the site O
tie old town is some eighty acres in extent
nbou, onc-hnlf of which is in corn, whil,
from the other half Ind ius, been gathered n
mnst luxuriapt crop of clover. As we an
rro.ch the nnirt where ships once loadrd
we mass knoll ur,,bnbIv n hundred pace.
frnn, thr waters r1rr wherr. M DANNY In,
Cont Uonsr stood. as inIicatrl nv the fra ?.
mrrt. of bricks which arr turned nm every
vror who nln,v at ,b.t n.r,irular snat anI
M vLGrn also in Tho sold TLrreore no whrI,
hricks 10 he fnund-nll such having no doubt
nc Mr. Leal,in snrmisrs lone since been cnr
rioJ nT and ned ei,her l,r Tho nrvt Com,
IJnrsa at F,rst.,,s N.ck nm The GnnnowInr
or Nv, rnrsons in tho viain,iy far tLsir mr;vot,
raei}orcas From ,monG ,Ln G.w Lri,l,
hnts which had been turned ont nv the ms,
nIowin~ I secured two of the least insight