Originally part of Anne Arundel County, Howard County was designated the Howard District in 1839, in honor of John Eager Howard, statesman, soldier, and fifth governor of Maryland. Howard County became the 21st of Maryland’s 23 counties in 1851. Howard County was mainly the farming & hunting grounds of Native Americans until 1608 when Captain [...]
The best things in life are free, but one might think that’s not true in Howard County, an affluent bedroom community of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, MD, ranked as the third richest county in the nation (according to the 2006 U.S. Census) with an average household income of more than $100,000, and a perennial on [...]
Local residents in Howard, Prince Georges, Baltimore, and Montgomery Counties have a new place to get community news, with the launch of the Village Connector, a new online newspaper. Glenn K. Garnes, founder of the Village Connector, says the newspaper will focus on news that typically gets second hand coverage in the mainstream media. “We [...]
