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At the corner of Saratoga and Liberty Streets, people will find an unassuming parking lot. While this parking lot does not appear interesting at first glance, this lot used to be the center of鈥�

The Blue Top Diner: A Lost Diner In Canton

Walking along Boston Street, people will run into a small store called 鈥淐anton Market.鈥� Acting as both a convenient store and sandwich shop, Canton Market serves up a variety of sandwiches such as鈥�

The Gibbs Canning Company: Cannery Conditions and the Polish Workforce

Formerly located on Boston Street in east Baltimore, Gibbs Preserving Company canned and packaged everything from oysters to jelly to candy to vegetables. The Gibbs Preserving Company exemplified鈥�

The E. J. Codd Company: Industrial Machine Shop Manufacturing, Philanthropy, and Community Involvement

Edward J. Codd founded the E. J. Codd Company in the 1850s. The E. J. Codd聽 Company focused on industrial machinery and aided Baltimore鈥檚 booming shipbuilding industry by assembling boilers,鈥�

William G. Scarlett and Company: The Eccentric Scarlett Family and the Seed Trade

In 1894, William G. Scarlett founded the William G. Scarlett Seed Company. Born in Baltimore in 1873, George D. Scarlett was a true entrepreneur who chased the American dream. At twenty-one, George鈥�

The Wilson Line: Standing Up Against Segregation

In the twentieth century, Pier 8 in Baltimore鈥檚 Inner Harbor and then Broadway Pier in Fells Point used to be the launching point for the steamboats of the Wilson Line. The Wilson Line extended from鈥�

A. H. Bull & Company: Steamships From New York to Puerto Rico

Archibald Hilton Bull founded the A. H. Bull & Co. in 1902. The company originally ran steamship lines from New York to Florida. Eventually A. H. Bull & Co. expanded to include an office in鈥�

Bagby Furniture Company: From Furniture Manufacturing to Italian Restaurants

In 1879, Charles T. Bagby and A. D. Rivers founded the Bagby and Rivers Furniture Company, the predecessor to the Bagby Furniture Company. Bagby and Rivers manufactured furniture and in their 1882鈥�

General Ship Repair: Four generations of South Baltimore Shipbuilding

General Ship Repair maintains the rich shipbuilding tradition so long associated with the South Baltimore neighborhoods of Federal Hill and Locust Point. Charles 鈥淏uck鈥� Lynch founded the company in鈥�

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

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

Hercules Company: Working along the waterfront

The Hercules Shipbuilding Company, housed in this brick building, was an active player in Baltimore鈥檚 maritime industry, building vessels for commercial and leisure use as well as wartime naval鈥�

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

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鈥�

Chesapeake Paperboard Co.: From paper recycling to luxury apartments

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鈥�

Domino Sugar: A bastion of industry along the harbor

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鈥�

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

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,鈥�

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

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鈥�

Woodberry Factory and Park Mill

The Woodberry Factory and Park Mill were built near the site of an eighteenth-century gristmill. An active industrial area for nearly two centuries, buildings here have been replaced and repurposed to鈥�

Round Falls

Hampden Falls, now known as Round Falls, was once part of a dam servicing Rock Mill. Completed in the early nineteenth century and rebuilt several times, it became a popular subject for local鈥�

Detrick and Harvey Machine Company

By Matthew Hankins

While Baltimore is remembered for the city鈥檚 role in fabricating ships and railcars, the companies that made the large machines required to build those ships and railcars have largely been forgotten.鈥�

Gunpowder Copper Works: Early Industry on the Gunpowder Falls

By Sally Riley & Evart F. Cornell

The Gunpowder Copper Works, a once-prominent factory located along the Great Gunpowder Falls near Glen Arm, Maryland is the second oldest copper works in the United States. The factory operated from鈥�

L. Gordon and Son Factory

By Caileigh Stirling

The L. Gordon & Son factory is a sixty-four thousand square foot industrial building on the corner of South Paca Street and West Cross Street, a few blocks from M&T Stadium. It is a three-story鈥�

Crown Cork & Seal on Eastern Avenue

By Sierra Hallman

When Baltimorean William Painter invented the bottle cap in 1891, it didn鈥檛 take long for beverage companies (beer brewers in particular) to realize its value, and for Painter to realize he needed to鈥�

Whitehall Cotton Mill

Before the rise of textile mills, the fast-flowing water of the Jones Falls instead powered gristmills supplying Baltimore's lucrative flour trade. Whitehall Mill was established as a gristmill in the鈥�

Alma Manufacturing Company: Factory for the 鈥淪uperior Pantaloon Button鈥� and the 鈥淧erfect Trousers鈥� Hook鈥�

By Eli Pousson

Founded in 1887 by twenty-eight-year-old German immigrant Herman Kerngood, the Alma Manufacturing Company manufactured a wide variety of metal clothing trimmings including buckles, clasps, fasteners鈥�

Mount Washington Mill

Mt. Washington Mill鈥攈istorically Washington Mill, part of Washington Cotton Manufacturing Company鈥攊s one of Maryland鈥檚 earliest purpose-built cotton mills. In the early nineteenth century, the鈥�

Mill Centre: Offices at Mount Vernon Mill No. 3