The Picker House

ID: 2287 ~ Source: Image courtesy Baltimore Museum of Industry, BGE Collection.
This file appears in: Mount Vernon Mill No. 1
The Picker House

Image of a man working in the picker house in 1948.

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…