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Learn about Glenelg, Maryland

Glenelg is a community located in Howard County.  It is the home town of Glenelg High School.  The economy of Glenelg is primarily driven by commuters who work in the Baltimore metropolitan area and the Washington, DC metropolitan area.  There are also a few local restaurants and storefronts.  Glenelg shares a border with the City of Columbia to the southeast.  The community of Woodstock is located to the northeast of Glenelg.  The northern border is with the community of Sykesville.  To the south of Glenelg is the community of Brookeville.

John Dorsey was one of the first settlers in the area and a prominent man.  He gave land to his daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Dorsey Howard and Henry Howard in 1735.  This land was in the western part of the county.  That land is now the community of Glenelg.  The property was called Howard’s Resolution.  Ephraim Howard, the son of Sara and Henry, built a house on the property in the middle or late 18th century.  In 1884, another section was added on to the front of the house. The newer front section was built by General Joseph Tyson.  He was Assistant Postmaster General under President John Tyler.  General and Mrs. Tyson called their home “Glenelg” after an old estate in Scotland.  They said it was “because it spelled the same from either end,” making it a palindrome.  The house is historically not a true manor house.  What is today known as “Glenelg Manor” is the nucleus of a sprawling structure.  It houses the Glenelg Country School lower school division.  It is located in neighboring community of Ellicott City.

A postal village named Glenelg was started on February 6, 1856.  The post office served the community out of Browns General store for 133 years.  It moved into the Ten Oaks shopping center in 1983.  By 1878, the population of the community increased to 75.  The land values ranged from $10 to $30 an acre.  In 1915, a Typhoid fever epidemic struck 20 residents and resulted in 4 deaths.