Inscription
If you were standing here in the early 1800s, you would have been listening to the waterwheel humming away at the Windsor Mill across this bridge. This section of the Gwynns Falls Trail is built over a three-mile millrace that carried water to power the Five Mills complex near today's Leon Day Park. These mills and others along the Gwynns Falls and Dead Run streams helped turn the Baltimore area into one of the nation's leading flour and textile producers.
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A Baltimore, Calverton & Powhatan streetcar crosses the Windsor Mill Road Bollman truss bridge about 1900.
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In the 1800s woolen and cotton mills were operating upstream from here in Wetheredsville. The village became known as Dickeysville after the W.J. Dickey Co. purchased the complex and provided housing (below) for its workers in the 1870s.
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A Baltimore, Calverton & Powhatan streetcar crosses the Windsor Mill Road Bollman truss bridge about 1900.
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In the 1800s woolen and cotton mills were operating upstream from here in Wetheredsville. The village became known as Dickeysville after the W.J. Dickey Co. purchased the complex and provided housing (below) for its workers in the 1870s.
Details
| HM Number | HM3RD |
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| Series | This marker is part of the Maryland: Gwynns Falls Trail series |
| Tags | |
| Historical Period | 19th Century |
| Historical Place | Business Center, Town |
| Marker Type | Historic District |
| Marker Class | Historical Marker |
| Marker Style | Free Standing |
| Placed By | Gwynns Falls Trail Council |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Sunday, October 26th, 2014 at 11:02am PDT -07:00 |
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Photo Credits: [1] SEPTEMBERSPARROW1666 [2] SEPTEMBERSPARROW1666 [3] SEPTEMBERSPARROW1666 [4] SEPTEMBERSPARROW1666
Locationbig map
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 354406 N 4352745 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 39.31186667, -76.68876667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 39° 18.712', W 76° 41.326' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 39° 18' 42.7200" N, 76° 41' 19.5600" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 410 |
| Can be seen from road? | No |
| Is marker in the median? | No |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1729-1799 Gwynns Falls Trail, Baltimore MD 21216, US |
| Alternative Maps | Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSR Maps, OpenCycleMap, MyTopo Maps, OpenStreetMap |
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