Poplar Springs, Maryland

Place in Maryland

39°20′36″N 77°05′47″W / 39.34333°N 77.09639°W / 39.34333; -77.09639Country

United States of AmericaState

MarylandCounty

HowardPopulation

(1888)

• Total48Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)

Poplar Springs is a town located in western Howard County in the state of Maryland, United States.

The town is named for the "Poplar Spring Branch", where Levin Lawrance settled in 1741 and Captain Philimon Dorsey settled in 1750 on a land patent named "Dorseys Grove".^[1]

Old Frederick Road was built through the town, following a Native American foot trail. By 1783, two weekly stagecoaches traveled the road. As of 1835, eight daily coaches traveled through town. In the summer of 1843 and 1844, Samuel Morse used Poplar Springs as a vacation spot while experimenting with the single wire telegraph.

After the Civil War, members of the 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA would hold regular reunions at the hotel in town.^[2] By 1888, the town population was 48.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Joshua Dorsey Warfield. The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. p. 437.
^ "Confederate Reunion in Howard County, Md". The Baltimore Sun. August 29, 1879.
^ Eatough, Allison (October 8, 2012). "7 surprising facts about Howard County". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
^ Barbara Feaga. Howard's Roads to the Past. p. 24.