Everything but Baker Street, Eldersburg, MD

A recent query on the Facebook group 'The Strangers Room' (which all Sherlockians should join) by Vincent Wright asked 'Is anyone familiar with this section of Eldersburg, MD?'

I was amazed to Zoom in to the satellite image and discovery that there was a Sherlock Holmes St on the map. So where is Eldersburg, Maryland? It is to the west of Baltimore and directly north of DC, close to Ellicott City where the Watson's Tin Box scion meets.

 Zoom in to look at the area, things get REALLY interesting:

Wow. OK so it turns out this development is called 'Sherlock Holmes Estates', with the majority of homes built around the mid-1990s. There are a significant number of Sherlockian street names:

- Conan Doyle Way (the main entrance street to the development)

- Sherlock Holmes St

- Watson Ct

- Elementary Dr

- Mycroft St

- Moriarty Ct

- Noble Bachelor Ct

- Dancing Men Dr

- Musgrave Ritual Dr

- Silver Blaze Dr

- Baskerville Dr

- Hudson Dr

What a list! Critically, Moriarty Ct does not intersect with Sherlock Holmes St.

Given the dense web of real estate-related web sites, I've found it difficult to learn about the establishment/development of Sherlock Holmes Estates, but a list of all Carroll County developments did not reveal another obviously literature-related development name. Surely a Sherlockian was involved, particularly when all characters and multiple stories are name-checked. Visiting to take pictures of each street sign is now on my list of things to do!

Perhaps the critical question: Why is there no Baker Street?

Finally, I find myself wondering whether the development design itself has a subtle nod to Sherlock's detection methods: