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Carrolltowne is a planned community of 259 homes in Eldersburg, Maryland.
It is conveniently located behind Carrolltown Center, next to a branch of the
Carroll County Library, and contains common areas for recreation. Carrolltowne
Elementary School is within walking distance.
Home ownership in Carrolltowne automatically makes you a member of the Carrolltowne Association. This is a homeowners association set up specifically to maintain the common areas that help make Carrolltowne such an attractive place to live. These include two children's playgrounds, a set of tennis courts, and a storm drainage management area.
We're sure that you will enjoy living here as much as we do.
Tennis court keys are available for any resident for a key copy charge of $3.00. Please contact Kathy Russenberger (410-549-6786) for keys to the courts.
The Carrolltowne Association Covenants and Bylaws are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format here: Covenants & Bylaws. Alternately you can obtain a printed and bound copy for $15 (our copy cost) from the Treasurer.
The following map details our Carrolltowne neighborhood which includes
Macbeth Way from Bonnie Brae's boundaries to the Brimfield neighborhood sign.
The neighborhood includes only that portion of Slacks Road from Ridge Road to
Macbeth Way. All the streets in Carrolltowne are indicated on the map. Please
note that the outline below is an approximation only.
Carrolltowne has two tennis courts located on West Hemlock Drive across
from Carrolltown Center, next to the Library. The courts should be locked at
all times. Members of the Executive Board have extra keys which may be
purchased for $3.00. It is the responsibility of the key holders to see that
the court gate is locked when they depart.
The Development also has two tot lots. One is in the open space off Gemini
Drive between Andylin Way and Overlook Court. The second lot, the Gemini-Andylin-Wexford
tot lot, has been going through a transformation. In 2004, the old playground
was taken down and the area was cleaned and re-landscaped. A new playground is
planned for the future.
The playgrounds at Carrolltowne Elementary School are also available for our
community to use. There is a blacktop path off Macbeth Way leading to the back
of the school and a blacktop path off Slacks Road leading to the side of the
school building.
Before 1970 the 190 acres which is now known as Carrolltowne was part of
the rural countryside in southern Carroll County. Almost the entire property
was crop land, primarily cornfields, and had not been actively farmed for many
years.
Dr. Philips, a prominent local dentist sold his land in the early 1970's to a
joint venture consisting of Commercial Credit Development Corporation and a
local shopping center developer. The purchase price was approximately
$5,000.00 per acre. The joint venture successfully rezoned the property to a
PUD (Planned Unit Development) based on the concept of a totally planned
community with open space, retail, and various residential uses. The rezoning
was not without opposition as the neighboring communities were suspicious
about the type and quality of housing that Carrolltowne would bring.
A condition of the rezoning was the dedication of the 20 acre elementary
school site and the reservation of the police and fire station site at the
corner of West Hemlock and Liberty Road. Although there has been no fire
station erected, the Carrolltowne Elementary School was opened in 1976 and a
joint library branch and satellite county office building were built in 1984.
The original joint venture split up shortly after the rezoning. In settlement,
Commercial Credit took all the residential land in Carrolltowne, and its
partner took the 33 acres of commercial land.
The first phase of the Carrolltowne Mall was begun shortly after the building
of the school. The second phase, which included K-Mart opened just before
Christmas, 1978.
The first residential activity in Carrolltowne was begun in August, 1977, in
which 55 lots were recorded, developed and sold to Washington Homes. A second
group of 58 lots were sold to the Ryland Group, Inc. The third section of
homes was started in the spring of 1979. In 1980, as mortgage rates
sky-rocketed and the housing market collapsed, Ryland and Washington homes
declined to exercise their remaining options, and some of these options were
picked up by local resident Wynn Stevens. Several lots were then developed by
Stevens Homes, Perch Realty and Masonry Contractors, among others. The
remaining Section II Parcel of 56 lots was developed by Security Development
in 1988.
On the other side of Ridge Road the 45 acres of land that is now the
townhouses and Carrolltowne II community was originally slated to be part of
the Carrolltowne Association. As plans changed for that land, the Association
relinquished any claims to annexation of those residences into Carrolltowne.
The property was then designated for a higher density residential community. A
40-unit townhouse rental project was erected in 1986.
Our community stands as an example of cooperation, dedication, and activism in
Southern Carroll County. Our residents are active in concerns facing our
county now and in the future.
Copyright ©2012 Carrolltowne Association, Incorporated