Historic Sites of Industry in the Jones Falls Valley
The Jones Falls provided the power that fueled manufacturing in Baltimore in the 19th and 20th centuries. The string of mills built in the valley along the riv…
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Mount Washington Milllocation_fillMt. Washington Mill—historically Washington Mill, part of Washington Cotton Manufacturing Company—is one of Ma…
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Woodberry Factory and Park Milllocation_fillJohn Payne, in his comprehensive 1798 tome, A New and Complete System of Universal Geography, noted the flouri… -
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Poole & Hunt Foundry and Machine Workslocation_fillAt its peak in the late nineteenth century, the Poole & Hunt Foundry and Machine Works employed over 700 peopl… -
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Meadow Milllocation_fillBaltimore industrialist William E. Hooper built Meadow Mill in 1877 during one of the most prosperous periods … -
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Hampden Branch, Enoch Pratt Free Librarylocation_fillThe doors at Branch No. 7 of the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened to patrons on July 2, 1900, seventeen years a… -
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Whitehall Cotton Milllocation_fillBefore the rise of textile mills, the fast-flowing water of the Jones Falls instead powered gristmills supplyi… -
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Mount Vernon Mill No. 1location_fillMill No. 1 sits on the site of Laurel Mill, a late 18th-century flour mill originally owned by prominent busin… -
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Mill Centrelocation_fillMount Vernon Mill No. 3 was once part of the network of mills owned by the Mount Vernon Mill Company. The vill…
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