Life-Like Products

ID: 2286 ~ Source: Image courtesy Baltimore Museum of Industry, BGE Collection.
This file appears in: Mount Vernon Mill No. 1
Life-Like Products

Life-Like products transitioned from making model train sets to styrofoam coolers. Here is a photograph of workers in 1960.

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…