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COMMUNITIES & HOUSING
Farm land covers much of West Friendship near Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum. PHOTO BY KEVIN RICHARDSON
WESTERN HOWARD COUNTY
AT A GLANCE
Typical home value: From
$559,700 (Lisbon) to $964,277
(West Friendship).
Population: 18,000
Founded: Cooksville (1851),
Glenelg (1856), Glenwood
(1874), Lisbon (1810), West
Friendship (1864), Woodbine (c.
1870).
Source: realtytrac.com, city-data.com, Zillow
Six towns make up the county’s
west end, most of which rose around
taverns and inns for travelers of yore.
(The Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of
the Revolutionary War, supped at a
Cooksville tavern in 1824.) During the
Civil War, Confederate troops tromped
through the area en route to the Battle of
Gettysburg.
Residents embrace the area’s agrarian
past: West Friendship boasts the Howard
County Living Farm Heritage Museum,
which has a working blacksmith shop
that offers forge time to the public. The
museum is part of West Friendship Park,
a 375-acre preserve with six miles of
nature trails, horseback riding and an
ornithological habitat.
Woodbine, which straddles Howard
and Carroll counties, offers Western
Regional Park with its 190 acres of
athletic fields and tennis and basketball
courts. Lisbon, the area’s oldest town, is
home to Lisbon Park, a nine-acre gem
with tennis courts, a playground and a
gazebo.
Farther west are the affluent communities of Glenwood and Glenelg. The
former, once marked by slave plantations, boasts Cattail Creek Country Club
with its 18-hole golf course. Glenelg
was named for a Scottish manor and
bears a moniker that is spelled the same,
forward and backward.
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