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Hampden-Woodberry

Hampden-Woodberry

Chalkley, Mark

Paperback

Series: Images of America

Travel GeneralGeneral PhotographyRegional: Middle Atlantic

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ISBN10: 0738543276
ISBN13: 9780738543277
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Published: Oct 16 2006
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

An interesting history suburban Baltimore's Hampden-Woodberry community, from mill village to thriving industrial community.

The urban Baltimore neighborhood of Hampden-Woodberry began as a mill village in rural Baltimore County, where the swift-flowing waters of Jones Falls provided the power for early gristmills. As the nearby city grew into a major international port, the flour mills gave way to cloth mills that turned out cotton duck for sails. At their peak, the mills of Hampden-Woodberry turned out 80 percent of the world's cotton duck. Thousands of men, women, and children were employed in what was, in the late 19th century, the United States' largest concentration of factory labor. Fortunes were made by such men as Robert Poole and the Hooper, Carroll, and Gambrill families, who owned the mills. When it was annexed to Baltimore in 1888, Hampden-Woodberry was a thriving industrial community. The last of the mills closed in 1972, but many of these historic structures are now being reused for a variety of purposes. More importantly, Hampden-Woodberry still survives as a community with deep roots in America's industrial past.

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