Showing posts with label Gray (Edward). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gray (Edward). Show all posts
Monday, February 3, 2020

Gray's Patapsco Cotton Factory 1815 in operation, 1820 fire

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Gray had improved the old paper factory for cotton in 1815, but in five years there was a terrible fire.  200 workers - mostly women and c...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

Meeting to make Howard a county in 1837

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Gov. George Howard (1789-1846) of "Waverly" was selected to chair the group of residents including Nath’l. H. Ellicott, Andrew El...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Edward Gray - cotton mill on the Patapsco, George Washington,

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Edward Gray (1776-1856) sailed from Ireland as a teenager to Philadelphia where he saw President Washington and would work his way up to ow...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Sites on the B&O train line through Howard County in 1833

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Riding the new B&O railroad from Baltimore was a novel 'excursion', and was described in the 1833 book:  A Complete View of Bal...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Cotton mill heated in 1816 by a young Robert Mills

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Robert Mills, the American born architect of two Washington Monuments - Baltimore in 1815 and DC in the 1830s - designed a soap stone and ...
Monday, May 2, 2016

"Patapsco" - the home not the river - and the 1868 flood

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Edward Gray built the home and mill complex, and lived there with his two daughters and his son-in-law John Pendleton Kennedy.  Kennedy (179...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Washington Irving visits his friend John Pendleton Kennedy

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Novelist Washington Irving (1783-1859) who bought a cottage in 1835, and transformed it into the fanciful "Sunnyside" in Tarryto...