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Owen Brown is named for a narrow old road, apparently named for a one-time landowner. Kay Sarfaty is quoted as saying, "I never found out who Owen Brown was. I just thought it would be nice to name one place for an ordinary guy."
STREET NAMES
DASHER GREEN is named for the Dasher family who owned much of the land in the area. The Dasher homestead on Oakland Mills Road near Christ Church will remain as the area around it is developed. Street names are from the works of American, John Greenleaf Whittier.ELKHORN takes its name from the Elkhorn branch of the Little Patuxent River which was dammed to form Lake Elkhorn. Elk Horn Farms was also the name of the Dasher farm. The street names are derived from the works of American, Paul Laurence Dunbar.
HOPEWELL takes its name from the land grant, Laswell's Hopewell, patented to Thomas Davis Sr. in 1728. The street names come from the works of American, Vachel Lindsay .
My favorite street names in the Village of Owen Brown are Barefoot Boy
and Tufted Moss
which are both in Dasher Green.
OTHER STREET AND PLACE NAMES
SNOWDEN RIVER PARKWAY was inspired by the historically original name for the Little Branch which was Snowden's River of Patuxent, according to historian Dr. Caleb Dorsey. Snowden's Cowpens and Snowden's Intent appear as land grant to Richard Snowden, patented in 1736.MENDENHALL ROAD was named after Peter Mendenhall, the builder of a paper mill in the early 1800's.
DOBBIN ROAD was named after George B. Dobbin. By Act, Chapter 364, he was appointed Visitor from Howard County to the Maryland Hospital. He was the first such appointment.
The name for RUMSEY ROAD came from James Rumsey, who invented the first steamboat two years before Fulton launched the Claremont. General Washington witnessed the trial on the Potomac and gave a certificate of the success of the experiment.
WINCOPIN CIRCLE is derived from Wincopin Neck, a land grant given to Benjamin and Richard Warfield in 1702.
Broken Land was a land grant patented to Thomas Worthington and Henry Ridgely in 1722. This lent it's name to BROKEN LAND PARKWAY.
GOVERNOR WARFIELD PARKWAY was named for Edwin Warfield, the only Howard County resident to become a Maryland governor.
STERRETT PLACE comes from the owner of Oakland Manor, Colonel Charles Sterrett Ridgely.
BANNEKER ROAD was named after Benjamin Banneker (more details in Town Center).
LITTLE PATUXENT PARKWAY. Columbia's main thoroughfare takes its name from the Little Patuxent River which, with all its tributaries, runs through much of Columbia.
Columbia's 40-acre downtown park is the site of Merriweather Post Pavilion which was built as the summer home of the Washington Symphony. The Pavilion is names for Marjorie Merriweather Post, a symphony benefactor. This is how the area got the name of SYMPHONY WOODS.
The AMERICAN CITY BUILDING is named for its original tenant, the American City Corporation - a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Rouse Company, dedicated to improving the quality of life in existing cities.