Upon his marriage to Rachel, he acquired the estate known as "Howard's Timber Neck" from his father-in-law, just southwest of Baltimore Town, which had been established in 1729, and laid out the following year. In 1732, this land was combined with another property known as "Brotherly Love", resurveyed and renamed "Ridgely's Delight". In 1735, Ridgely began leasing parcels of land in "Ridgely's Delight", now a southwestern Baltimore city neighborhood, just outside the downtown area and adjacent to the sports stadiums complex of Camden Yards, of 1992-1998, built on top of the former railyards of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and its historic Camden Street Station and former headquarters, built 1857-1865. The later historic district and rowhouse tight neighborhood which remains today and is still known as "Ridgely's Delight", and is situated on what was first a Susquehannock Indian path leading south from the Susquehanna River valley further north, and in the Federal period of the late 18th century, a main East Coast post road /highway from Philadelphia southwest through Baltimore and on to Georgetown, Maryland, then an active sailing port on the upper Potomac River (now part of the District of Columbia containing the new national capital Washington, D.C. after 1800). After running through Baltimore, the post road is now known as Washington Boulevard / U.S. Route 1. The earliest houses within today's boundaries of the pie-shaped wedge community of "Ridgely's Delight" date from about 1804. A large portion of the development of "Ridgely's Delight" occurred between 1816 and 1875, with particular intensity during the 1840s and 1850s.