Woodbine, Maryland | |
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 .jpg) Woodbine's Salt Box Ball Field and a typical residential neighborhood in Woodbine | |
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| Coordinates:39°21′39″N77°3′43″W / 39.36083°N 77.06194°W /39.36083; -77.06194 | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Maryland |
| Counties |  Howard Carroll |
| Named after | Woodbine Plant |
| Population (2014)[1] | |
• Total | 8,124 |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 21797 |
| Area code | 410,443,667 |
Woodbine is an unincorporated rural community inHoward andCarroll counties,Maryland, United States. It is part of theBaltimore metropolitan area. It is located southeast ofFrederick, west ofBaltimore, north ofWashington, D.C., and east ofMount Airy. The community was named for thewoodbine plant, which grew in the community in fields and along riverbanks.
Woodbine is located at the juncture of thePatapsco River, theB&O Railroad, and the road that runs north fromLisbon toWinfield on Liberty Road (Maryland Route 26) and through toWestminster, Maryland. The original road from Baltimore toFrederick runs just north of Lisbon, following a slight ridge line westward halfway to Woodbine (the road was finally paved in the 1960s). This was the original trail that existed before theNational Road was built (the road that runs through Lisbon).
During theCivil War, Confederate cavalry crossed thePatapsco River at Woodbine and atHoods Mill, just a few miles east on the river and theB&O Railroad, scouting aU.S. army that was on its way to theBattle of Gettysburg. The main road at that time ran just west of the existing road and up the west side of a creek that runs south and that joins with the Patapsco River just 50 yards west of the existing road. That original road, now partly unused, runs north 100 yards from the river and then Eastward (Gum Road) to join up with the existing road today. There was no bridge across the Patapsco River at that time, just a ford in the river.
The town straddles the Patapsco River to the north (intoCarroll County) and south (intoHoward County). A new concrete bridge was constructed between 1916 and 1917.[2] In the 1920s and 1930s the town had a largecanning factory on the Carroll County side of the river. There was another small canning factory, from the turn of the century, run by water power west of Woodbine at the foot of New Port Hill. Remains of the factory still exist, and the sluice where water (from Gillis Falls Run) came to run the machinery is still visible in the wooded area below New Port Hill leading north to the dam, no longer existing.
Just north, 300 yards up the hill and west of the existing road (SR 94) on John Pickett Road, was a wormseed distillery, wherewormseed oil wassteam-distilled. This small factory was later converted into the Woodbine Canning Factory, canningtomatoes,corn, andpeas. The factory burned in June 1933 and was converted to a paper mill in the 1950s.[3]
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