Description & Facts: Ellicott Municipality is an unincorporated accord and census-designated set in Howard County, Maryland, Federate States. The aggregation was 56,397 at the 2000 census. It is the county sit of Queen County. Supported in 1772, the town features the B&O Railroad Museum Ellicott City Displace, built in 1830, and a downtown historic district which is a rattling popular direction among antiques shoppers, with restaurants, eclectic store shops, drink shops, a tea chance and many past sites. As of the 2000 Enumeration, Ellicott Municipality surpassed Towson, Maryland, as the maximal unincorporated county place in the state. Ellicott Port is recorded amongst U.s.a.'s most rich communities and is placed in Histrion County, the base wealthiest county in the Confederative States according to the U.S. Tally Office. Since 2005, Ellicott Metropolis has been hierarchic triplet nowadays among the top 20 Foremost Places to Whippy in the Collective States by Money and CNNMoney.com. The downtown region is ofttimes called "Past Ellicott City" or "Old Ellicott Metropolis", to characterise it from the unincorporated expanse that extends northwesterly to the Baltimore County goal, southwestward to University, and westmost to Author Friendship. In 1772, three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, chose the picturesque wilderness, upriver from Elk Ridge Landing (known today as Elkridge, Maryland) to establish a flour mill. John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott founded Ellicott's Mills, which became one of the largest milling and manufacturing towns in the East. The Ellicott brothers helped indoctrinate cultivation in the region by persuading farmers to set corn instead of baccy and also by introducing chemical to renew depleted ground. Charles Author, a person of the Papers of Freedom and a wealthy landowner, was an future important alter from baccy to grain. In 1830, Ellicott's Designer became the best terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Gauge inaccurate City. The move, collective of brobdingnagian blocks of locally quarried granite, stands today as a extant record museum, and has been designated a Individual Historic Landmark by the U.S. Section of the Interior. It bears the determination as the "Oldest surviving railroad facility in Land". The famous move between Apostle Journeyman's press engine, the Tom Thumb, and a horse-drawn pram took locate at Relay on the repetition actuate from Ellicott's Mills in Honourable 1830. By 1861, Ellicott's Architect was a prosperous line and manufacturing extent. The tract of the courthouse, which was collective from 1840-1843 when the Howard Regulate of Anne Arundel County, Colony, was so designated in 1839. Histrion County, Maryland, became an attorney individualist powerfulness in 1851. On July 10, 1864 Fed personnel under the bidding of Unspecialised Lew Rebel retreated perfect the General Pike from the Battle of Monocacy to the Baltimore and River Railway Ellicott's Designer installation. Homes and churches in Ellicott's Architect were temporarily victimized as hospitals for the Union wounded. In 1867, a municipality charter was secured for Ellicott's Mills, and the calumny was denatured to "Ellicott Municipality". The only hired municipality in the county, Ellicott City mislaid its charter in 1935 and was designated a past territory by the county in 1973. Ellicott Port today serves as the county seat. In the primeval summer of 1972, the downtown Important Street atlantic was extensively engulfed by Hurricane Agnes; the Ellicott brothers' asylum on the pulverization belongings was also wasted. A more plain pile in 1868 wiped most rude business from the valley, but spared the flour mill. Past Main Street has also been the site of individual devastating fires, most notably in Nov 1984 and again on Nov 9, 1999. The former was started by Leidig's Workplace's imperfect air conditioning unit and burned six buildings; the latter, a 6-alarm deviltry which wrecked fivesome businesses and caused an estimated $2 million in casualty, was accidentally started behindhand a building by a useless smoke. The Ellicott Municipality expanse was the residence to the faery tale-themed diversion common celebrated as the Entranced Woodland. The park has been nonopening to the generic unexclusive since the archean 1990s, and a shopping tract (called the Captivated Set Shopping Concern) was collective on its parking lot. Many of the attractions person been emotional to Adventurer's Elioak Farm in Ellicott City, where they are existence fixed. The Spellbound Woods was featured in the 1990 John Waters-directed wrapping Cry-Baby, starring Ricki Lake and Johnny Depp. Clark's Elioak Farm is a petting zoo/farm that is artless has been titled one of the most obsessed littler towns on the eastward coast. The Actor County Touristry Council runs a Phantom Journeying that visits various places with reputations for unnatural reflexion. Among these are the mansions Lilburn, Hayden Concern, and Mt. Ida; the B&O railway span that crosses over Principal Street in the pertain of the municipality; the old Ellicott Metropolis Firehouse; and the Patapsco Someone Make. Swaggering Ellicott Municipality residents use this concerned chronicle to wreak their diminutive municipality into the glare. As of the census of 2000, there were 56,397 people, 20,250 households, and 15,288 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,760.9 people per square mile (679.8/km²). There were 20,789 housing units at an average density of 649.1/sq mi (250.6/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 78.33% White, 7.34% African American, 0.15% Native American, 11.90% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.55% from other races, and 1.71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.14% of the population. There were 20,250 households out of which 41.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.3% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 19.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.22. In the CDP the population was spread out with 28.5% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.9 males. According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the CDP was $103,464, and the median income for a family was $120,064. Males had a median income of $63,938 versus $41,721 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $29,287. About 2.2% of families and 3.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.3% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over. Ellicott City is at present part of Maryland's 7th congressional district, currently represented by Democrat Elijah Cummings.