Laurel Cotton Mill and Dam

Nicholas Snowden built a grist mill on this site in 1811, using water from the Patuxent River to power the mill. He converted it into a cotton mill in 1824. His son-in-law, Horace Capron, enlarged the Laurel Cotton Mill in ...

Women in the Mill Village

The first waves of migration off the farms were primarily single women and widows. Since these women had limited access to land, they were eager to take the steady work and housing the textile mills provided. An example of this ...

Adelphi Mill

This old grist mill built in the summer of 1796, probably by two brothers Issacher adn Mahlon Scofield. In 1811 the mill was also used for wool carding. The miller's cottage is of the same period.

Marker is on Riggs Road ...

African Americans in the Mill Village

African Americans experienced the textile mill world very differently than white families. Mills did not offer the same work opportunities to black men and women as they did for whites. Life in the mill village was also restricted, and black ...

Men in the Mill Village

Transitioning from the farm to an industrialized way of life was especially hard for men. On the farm, men experienced a certain amount of freedom and variety; millwork was often tedious, repetitive, and produced only wages for a day's labor. ...

Haun's Mill

Southwest of here

on October 30th, 1838,

occurred the incident generally

known as the Haun's Mill Massacre.

This site located by

Wm. R. Pemberton.

This marker placed here by

Glenn M. Setzer

1941

Marker is on NE Hauns Mill Drive ½ mile west of Catawba Road, on the left ...

Dublin Millenium Literary Parade

988 - 1988

One of Dublin's major contributions to European

civilisation has been in the area of

literature. It is remarkable that so many

writers of world renown were born here

including three winners of the Nobel Prize

for Literature. This Literary Parade honours

some of our ...

The Millionaires Club

Historic Landmark

Millionaires Club and Oldest Saloon in Virginia City

? Since ?

1862

[Marker Located on Back Wall of Saloon]

Millionaires Club

of the

Washoe

This historic club was formed in the mid-1870’s by the elite gentlemen of the Comstock. It was an exclusive social club which ...

Savage Mill

Vital Service to the Union

The mill town of Savage served a vital need for the United States Army after the Civil War began in 1861. William Baldwin who had purchased the mills in 1859 manufactured canvas for cannon covers and ...

Millersburg Ferry

The only surviving ferry service across the Susquehanna began as early as 1825. Boats were poled by manpower until 1873, when the first paddlewheeler was acquired. In the 1920's, gasoline engines replaced steam power, and the paddlewheels were shifted from ...