02-16-2023 Howard Mag - Flipbook - Page 20
COMMUNITIES & HOUSING
Farmland 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 (estimated)
Founded: Cooksville (1851),
Glenelg (1856), Glenwood
(1874), Lisbon (1810), West
Friendship (1864), Woodbine (c.
1870).
Source: realtytrac.com, citydata.com, Zillow
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ix towns make up the county’s west end,
most of which rose up 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 6 miles of nature trails, horseback
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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 9-acre gem with tennis courts, a
playground and 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.