Howard County Historical Society’s Holiday Historic House Fundraising Event
Tickets $75 each and a 10% discount for HCHS members as of Oct 1, 2024. Featuring wonderful live holiday music, refreshments and re-enactor short presentations

Belmont (HO-43) is listed on the Maryland Historic Trust, Inventory of Historic Properties (MIHP HO-43) located on part of what was originally 1,368 acres patented in 1695 by a Dr. Mordecai Moore who sold it to Caleb Dorsey, Sr. in 1732 who then gifted the land to his son as a wedding present. Caleb Dorsey, Jr. was an iron master and part owner of the Elkridge Iron Works that produced pig iron shipped to England. The original manor house was built in 1737 (or some docs say 1738) using brick brought over from England, making it one of the county’s earliest structures. Six generations of Dorseys have owned the house, and two senators, Howard Bruce and Alexander Contee Hanson, lived there in their lifetimes. Enslaved people lived at Belmont in the early to mid 1800’s (1860 Federal Slave Census). The house has interesting ties to the MD Hunt Cup horse race, the industry of the Patapsco Valley through its owners occupations and enslaved workers that supported in the Iron Works industry, and the political life of its day. The house has been restored and enlarged to its present state.

Sunday, December 8
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

BELMONT MANOR AND HISTORIC PARK IN ELKRIDGE

6555 Belmont Woods Road
Elridge, MD 21075