Daisy, Maryland
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| map_caption = Location in Howard County, Maryland
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Daisy is an unincorporated community located at the northwest tip of Howard County, Maryland, United States.
History
A very large tract of land in the area that became Daisy was patented to Captain Richard Warfield in 1763.{{cite book |title=Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State |page=332 |author=Federal Writers' Project |author-link=Federal Writers' Project |publisher=Work Projects Administration |date=August 1940 |isbn=9781603540193}} The Oakdale manor slave plantation was built on the site in 1838 by Albert Gallatin Warfield{{cite web|url=http://mdihp.net/dsp_county.cfm?search=county&criteria1=O&criteria2=HO&criteria3=&id=15575&viewer=true |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111220656/http://mdihp.net/dsp_county.cfm?search=county&criteria1=O&criteria2=HO&criteria3=&id=15575&viewer=true |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |title=Oakdale |publisher=Maryland Historic Trust |access-date=September 8, 2013 }}{{cite book|title=Seeking Freedom The History of the Underground Railroad in Howard County|page=62}} and, as of 1940, overlooked a remaining {{convert|1300|acres|km2}} of the original tract.
Senator Arthur Pue Gorman's daughter, Grace (1871–1958), who went by the name "Daisy", lived at the historic Overlook farm house in North Laurel. Daisy, Maryland was named after her in 1882.{{cite book|title=Remembering Ellicott City: Stories from the Patapsco River|author=Janet P. Kusterer, Victoria Goeller}} A postal office operated in the community from March 24, 1882, to August 31, 1905.{{cite web|title=Checklist of Maryland Post Offices |publisher=Smithsonian National Postal Museum |date=July 12, 2007 |url=http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/statepostalhistory/Maryland_Post_Offices.pdf |access-date=July 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815015051/http://postalmuseum.si.edu/statepostalhistory/Maryland_Post_Offices.pdf |archive-date=August 15, 2013 }}
The current Daisy United Methodist Church property, eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1906 on {{convert|2.25|acres}} of land acquired in 1876 "to be used as a school house for colored children and also a house of public worship for the use of the colored members of the M.E. church of the neighborhood".
By 1940, the population of Daisy reached 25.{{cite book|title=Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State|author=Federal Writers' Project|page=332}} The farming community was active in the mid-20th century, with a general store, schoolhouse, and Good Templars Hall, though diminished in the 1970s as agricultural profits fell and families moved to larger towns. The Daisy Garage was established in 1959 by former Howard County Commissioner Robey Mullinix.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|date=March 31, 1965|title=Daisy Garage is a Family Affair}}
Notable people
- Roby H. Mullinix (1895–1965), Howard County Commissioner (1949–1954), Planning Commissioner,{{cite book|title=Maryland State Manual 1951–1952 |volume=164 |page=250 |url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000164/html/am164--250.html }} Howard County Court Clerk (1954–1962){{cite web|title=Howard County Court Clerks|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc2600/sc2685/county/html/hoclerks.html|access-date=11 September 2013}}
- George Washington Ward (1867–1932) was the third principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University).
- Edwin Warfield (1848–1920), the 45th Governor of Maryland, grew up at the Oakdale Manor built in 1838.
Today
The Daisy General Store and Outpost joined the Daisy Schoolhouse in 2012 on Preservation Howard County's top endangered sites list. The nonprofit organization pursues historical and cultural preservation in the county. The school is awaiting reconstruction on museum property in West Friendship.{{cite news|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|title=The keepers of Howard County history
The outpost remained on the list in 2014 and 2015.{{cite news|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|title=Top 10 endangered historical sites in Howard County|date=July 11, 2014}}{{cite news|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|title=Former school tops Howard County's endangered sites list|author=Amanda Yeager|date=26 May 2015}}
References
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Maryland
Category:Unincorporated communities in Howard County, Maryland