Showing posts with label Patapsco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patapsco. 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...
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 30, 2017

Bloede Dam - Power plant inside a dam

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The first hydroelectric plant within a dam was built just south of Ilchester and Ellicott City on the Patapsco River in 1907. The underwa...
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Monday, August 14, 2017

Cotton mills of Ellicott's Mills in 1849

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 In 1849 there were 4 large-scale mills along the Patapsco River by Ellicott City which made cotton material: Union in Oella (pictured), ...
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...