Roofing Contractor in Clarksville, MD

Clarksville was farm country until fairly recently, and much of it is now larger homes on former orchard and field land in western Howard County, with a few old stone farmhouses still standing. Route 108 is still the spine, and the eastern edge blends into Columbia closely enough that some exterior work runs into the same covenant expectations.

Hot, humid summers and winters that swing mild to cold are hard on shingles and flashing, and the bigger rooflines on the newer houses have more surface exposed to it. We inspect the whole roof, not just the spot that is leaking.

The houses we roof in Clarksville tend to be large, with wide multi-gable rooflines, and the county is part of the reason. Clarksville is an unincorporated community in western Howard County, which the U.S. Census Bureau has ranked among the highest-earning counties in the United States.

Clarksville's name traces to the family of John R. Clark, who immigrated from Ireland to the Howard District of Anne Arundel County in 1790. His purchase included Jack Howard's blacksmith shop, one of the few African American operated blacksmith shops in the county. In 1838 Dr. William Watkins of Richland Manor proposed the Howard District that became Howard County in 1851, and a postal stop opened here that same year, on the Fourth of July, 1851.

Many of the homes we roof in Clarksville are newer, larger houses built on old field and orchard land. The area had been settled earlier in tobacco plantations such as Folly Quarter and Hobbs Regulation. For most of its history this was farm country, with agriculture and limestone mining as the key industries and numerous apple orchards between Clarksville and Ashton.

Route 108 is still the town's spine, and it started as a toll road. In 1869 the community became the terminus of the ten-mile Ellicott City and Clarksville turnpike, a private toll road built over the old Sandy Spring road in the days before county-maintained roads. Many homes now sit down long private drives off it, so we plan truck and dumpster access before the job starts.

Clarksville still has genuinely old stone buildings, and on those we treat the roof and the flashing against masonry as one job. Montrose and Richland Farm were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and Clifton, an 1818 stone home on the White Wine & Claret farm of John Dorsey, still stands.

Clarksville's eastern edge blends into Columbia, where we are based, closely enough that the Census Bureau counts part of Clarksville as Columbia, and the town is served by River Hill High School. The climate is humid subtropical, with hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters, so thunderstorm wind and hail are a bigger threat to a roof here than snow load.

Roof or siding work in Clarksville? Call (667) 200-6656 or book a free inspection.