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General Ship Repair: Four generations of South Baltimore Shipbuilding

By Baltimore Museum of Industry
General Ship Repair maintains the rich shipbuilding tradition so long associated with the South Baltimore neighborhoods of Federal Hill and Locust Point. Charles “Buck” Lynch founded the company in…

Key Highway Yards: Once Baltimore's "largest and most important" shipyard

By Baltimore Museum of Industry
The Key Highway Yards along the southern side of the Inner Harbor played a pivotal role in Baltimore’s shipbuilding industry from the 1820s until 1982. Passersby today see almost no traces of this…

Hercules Company: Working along the waterfront

By Baltimore Museum of Industry
The Hercules Shipbuilding Company, housed in this brick building, was an active player in Baltimore’s maritime industry, building vessels for commercial and leisure use as well as wartime naval…

General Electric Apparatus Service Shop: Electrical maintenance, environmental remediation, and mixed-use development

By Baltimore Museum of Industry
The General Electric (GE) Apparatus Service Center did not support private consumers in maintaining their individual household appliances. Rather, this service center maintained large electrical…

Chesapeake Paperboard Co.: From paper recycling to luxury apartments

By Baltimore Museum of Industry
All that remains of the Chesapeake Paperboard Co. complex today is the water tower. The site is now known as McHenry Row, a 90,000 square foot mixed use development project that contains 250 luxury…

Domino Sugar: A bastion of industry along the harbor

By Baltimore Museum of Industry
The Domino Sugar refinery (and its iconic red neon sign) is one of the last major working industries along Baltimore's inner harbor. Raw sugar arrives at the plant in giant ships and barges, and is…

Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation: A dumping ground for toxic waste

By Baltimore Museum of Industry
The Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation manufactured chemical components for many industrial applications. Quaker merchant Isaac Tyson Jr. established the company that became Allied Chemical in 1828,…

Procter & Gamble Baltimore Plant: Under Armour's world headquarters

By Baltimore Museum of Industry
Today the site of Under Armour's world headquarters, five of these buildings used to house Procter & Gamble's Baltimore Plant: Process Building (1929), the Soap Chip Building (1929), the Bar Soap…

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