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1600s
The first inhabitants of the future Towson and central
Baltimore County region were the
Susquehannock people who hunted in the area. Their region included all of Baltimore County, though their primary settlement was farther northeast along the
Susquehanna River.
[4]
1700s
Towson was settled in 1752 when Pennsylvania brothers, William and Thomas Towson, began farming an area of Sater's Hill, northeast of the present-day
York and
Joppa Roads.
[5] William's son, Ezekiel, opened the Towson Hotel to serve the growing number of farmers bringing their produce and livestock to the
port of Baltimore. He built the hotel at current-day Shealy Avenue and
York Road, near the area's main crossroads.
[6] The village became known as "Towsontown".
[3][7] The property in West Towson came from two land grants: 400 acre Gott's Hope in 1719, and Gunner's Range in 1706.
[8]
In 1790, businessman
Capt. Charles Ridgely completed the magnificent Hampton Mansion just north of Towsontown, the largest private house in America at the time. The Ridgelys lived there for six generations, until 1948.
[9] It is now preserved as the
Hampton National Historic Site and open to the public.
1800s
Dr. Grafton Marsh, a surgeon during the war of 1812, and his brother Dr. Josiah Marsh settled their families in a collection of early houses known as Gott's Hope that was part of a group along Joppa Road. They consolidated four of the structures into a larger dwelling that they called "Marshmont". The brothers went into business together as medical practitioners. Neither had any heirs but were joined in practice later by their nephew, Dr. Grafton Marsh Bosley, who eventually inherited the medical practice, the Marshmont compound, and a 140-acre farm. The farm extended west of York Road, south of Joppa Road, north of the Sheppard Pratt Hospital, and east of Woodbine Avenut.
[10] In 1869,
[11] Bosley and his wife Margaret Nicholson then built a new home in an area of the property known as "Highlands"
[12] or "Highland Park", which they named "Uplands".
[8]
The ratification of the second
Maryland Constitution of 1851 provided for the jurisdictional separation of the former Baltimore Town, founded in 1729. Baltimore Town had served as the
county seat since 1767, now the City of Baltimore, since its incorporation in 1796–97 by the
General Assembly of Maryland. Several tortured sets of negotiations occurred to divide the various assets of the city and the county, such as the downtown courthouse of 1805, the city/county jail of 1801 along the
Jones Falls (at East Madison Street) and the almshouse, which was also jointly owned. After a series of elections and
referenda, on February 13, 1854, Towson became, by popular vote, the choice of the remaining, now mostly rural, eastern, northern and western portions of the county as the new county seat of Baltimore County.
[13]
This is a "Towson" according to Wikipedia.
) because, like I said, their campus is literally just down the road from my house and we know many kids who go there, including my son's girl friend. By the way, the school is known by the locals as "York Road U."