Mt. Vernon Mills workers.

ID: 2285 ~ Source: Image courtesy Baltimore Museum of Industry.
This file appears in: Mount Vernon Mill No. 1
Mt. Vernon Mills workers.

Workers posing for the camera outside the mill in 1921.

This file appears in: Mount Vernon Mill No. 1

By Kyle Fisher
Mill No. 1 sits on the site of Laurel Mill, a late 18th-century flour mill originally owned by prominent businessman and abolitionist Elisha Tyson. In 1849, the newly chartered Mount Vernon Company built a textile mill on the site. Mill No. 1 stood…