How the
Streets
of
TOWN
CENTER
were Named

This information
is courtesy of
Barbara Kellner,
Coordinator,
Welcome Center,
run by the
Columbia Association

 Town Center
Photograph by Jan Adams
Copyright. All Rights Reserved.

Town Center is not technically a village, but is the
residential component of the downtown commercial center.
However, it does have a community association,
as all other villages do, and it is composed of four areas.

The four areas (neighborhoods) of Town Center are
VANTAGE POINT, AMESBURY, CREIGHTON'S RUN, and BANNEKER.

STREET NAMES

VANTAGE POINT comes from a poem by Robert Frost. Street names are also from Frost works, and the works of William Cullen Bryant.

AMESBURY is one street located off Ten Mills Road in Running Brook.

CREIGHTON'S RUN consists of two streets, Davidge Drive and Claiborne Court.

BANNEKER is the Banneker Road area located off Little Patuxent Parkway between Symphony Woods and Howard Community College.

OTHER STREET AND PLACE NAMES

OAKLAND retained its historic name. The mansion was built in 1810 and owners include Charles Sterrett Ridgely, Robert Oliver, and Rose & Sigmund Price.

BANNEKER ROAD is named for Benjamin Banneker, a black mathematician who lived in Ellicott City and worked as scientific assistant to Major Andrew Ellicott, surveying the boundaries of the District of Columbia in 1791.

OLIVER'S CARRIAGE HOUSE retains its name from the ownership of Robert Oliver.

ROSE PRICE HOUSE is named for Rose and Sigmund Price, who owned the manor and its surrounding buildings in the 1950's.

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