For the second time in three years, Columbia, MD placed in the top 10 on the CNN/Money list of Best Places to Live. Now 41 years old, this planned community came in as the 8th Best Place to Live for 2008, after placing 4th in 2006. Though the CNN/Money list links Columbia to Ellicott City, people in both cities will tell you there's a big difference between them. Ellicott City's history reaches back more than 200 years to 1772 when the three Ellicott brother established a flour mill on the Patapsco River. Their Ellicott's Mills became one of the largest milling towns in the East. Old Ellicott City is now a haven for antique shoppers. Columbia is the new kid on the block, having been created out of 14,000 acres of farmland in the 1960's. Developer James Rouse envisioned a place where peo...
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