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Maps

 * 1852 – A map of the state of Maryland, Fielding Lucas, John Warr
 * Journey Cake T.
 * 1857 – Map of the city and county of Baltimore, Maryland., James C. Sidney
 * Journeycake Town, Journeycake Road
 * F. Betts, J. Pierpoint, W. Pierpoint, W. Peddicord, G. W. Kinz, Pearce, J. Peddicord, Tavern, Jas Lee, K. Crosby
 * 1857 – Map of the city and county of Baltimore, Maryland. Copy 1, Robert Taylor
 * Maxville, Maxville Road
 * W. Pierpoint, W. Peddicord, Tavern, J. Lee
 * 1863 – Military map, Baltimore Co., Md., George Kaiser
 * Journey Cake Town, Old Rolling Road
 * W. Pierpoint, Tav., J. Lee
 * 1865 – Martenet's map of Maryland : including the District of Columbia, a sketch of Delaware, and a portion of northern and eastern Virginia showing some of the most interesting localities of the late war, Simon J. Martenet
 * Journeycaketown
 * Tav
 * 1878 – First and Thirteenth Districts, Griffith Morgan Hopkins
 * R. Pierpoint, Jas. Lee

Books

 * 1882 – Industries of Maryland [p83], Historical Publishing Company


 * Journeycake Town (Baltimore co.), mail Baltimore.


 * 1901 – Polk's Baltimore (Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Howard Counties) City Directory [p49], R.L. Polk & Company

Johnny Cake rd. N W fm Edmondson av ext nr Catonsville

Johnny Cake Town (village) on Johnny Cake rd 1½ miles N of Catonsville


 * 1917 – Real stories from Baltimore County history, Isobel Davidson

p41

Out on the Johnnycake Road one may be shown the site of the toothsome tavern of that day, known far and wide for its excellent johnny-cake, so 'tis said.

p163

The earliest settlements in this neighborhood were at Johnny Cake Town, which is along the route of the old National turnpike, and along the shores of the Patapsco River. On these farms tobacco was raised extensively, especially at Johnny Caketown, and the old Rolling road at the western end of Catonsville is where the tobacco planters of "ye olden times" rolled their hogsheads of the precious weed to the colonial seaport at Elkridge.

p166

Johnny Cake

A name that makes you smile when you learn that it is the name of a neighborhood and the name of a road, and once upon a time the name of an inn. Johnny Cake makes you smile at almost anytime for it brings to mind some good meals you have made of it, I am sure.

Smile at Johnny Cake all you wish! Here's how Johnny Cake got its name, so tis said.

About e'ghty years ago [1837], Mr. James Lee kept a tavern on the road now called the Johnny Cake road. It was about one-half mile from the place where the Belmont School now stands. In those days all the region from Baltimore to Frederick was called by this funny name. This tavern was the favorite stopping place of travelers between the above named points. Here they would stop and rest their horses. This picture shows the old well where the travelers watered their horses.

It is said that one of the ladies of long ago who served the teamsters and other travelers gave them delicious Johnny cake so often for breakfast that the fame of the inn spread throughout the countryside and they decided to name it For a long time the Belmont School was called Johnny Cake, but Belmont avenue passing down one side, it seemed just as appropriate to call it by this more euphonius but less interesting name.

p175

An Old-Time Well

On Johnny Cake road, about one-half mile from Belmont School, is an old, old well which is still in use. It looks entirely different from the ordinary pump with which everybody is familiar. If we could see through the foliage of the tree on the right side of the photograph, we should find a handle or a crank. This handle is fastened to a roller to which a chain is also attached. As the handle is turned, the chain is wrapped around the handle or vice versa. In this way the water bucket is pulled up or let down into the well. Near the top of this comb-shaped shanty, the roller is held in place by suitable fixtures. Ordinarily a door closes the opening at the center of the picture. This well has been used for probably thirty years [1887].


 * 1926 – Guide to Baltimore and Environs [p167], Allen Kerr Bond

It is a matter of gratification that the old lateral roads of Baltimore County which wander about the countryside so aimlessly, now that the industrial points between which they ran have decayed or wholly disappeared, are still preserved under their quaint old names (the Johnnycake road, the Rolling road, the Old Court road, the Joppa road, the Dogwood road, and others). Some of them are well surfaced and in everyway up-to-date, others fiarly good in dry weather. The adventurous tourist who has an eye for beauty of the unrestrained countryside, will be delighted with many an unexpected turn in the road or ancient homestead; may even rediscover forgotten Johnnycake Town, or trace a hearth-place in the once important port of Joppa.


 * 1941 – Gazetteer of Maryland [p111], Maryland State Planning Commission

Jonnycake Town: in Baltimore County.


 * 1989 – The Place Names of Maryland: Their Origin and Meaning [p130], Hamill Kenny

flour, water and eggs. At the time the area was surveyed, the mapmakers were told that the road was called the Johnny Cake Road supposedly out of derision … "