Insurance map, Clipper Mill

ID: 2223 ~ Source: Baltimore Museum of Industry ~ Date: 1912
This file appears in: Whitehall Cotton Mill
Insurance map, Clipper Mill

Insurance maps provide a detailed snapshot of what the factories looked like and how they were used over a century ago.

This file appears in: Whitehall Cotton Mill

By Nathan Dennies
Before the rise of textile mills, the fast-flowing water of the Jones Falls instead powered gristmills supplying Baltimore's lucrative flour trade. Whitehall Mill was established as a gristmill in the late 1700s and owned by James Ellicott, a member…