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Note: This page includes a list of digitized images in the BCPL Legacy Web database for topics beginning with the letter "D".
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- Dairies - Baltimore City
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The 1930s Greenspring Dairy building located on 41st Street in Baltimore near Falls Road.
An article by Edward Gunts in the SUN, February 17, 1989 suggested that the site was going to be rehabbed for a shopping center.
- Dairies - Dulaney Valley
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The former Cloverland Dairy, subsequently razed for new homes, on Dulaney Valley Road near Peerce's Plantation.
- Dairies - Perry Hall
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Berg's Farm Dairy on E. Joppa Road, west of Belair Road, in Perry Hall.
- Dairies - Pikesville - Advertising
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This advertisement from Polk's Baltimore City Directory illustrates the headquarters of the Pikesville Dairy Company at 1511-1515 Argyle Avenue. The president and general manager was G.W. Evans.
- Dams
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A dam over the Gwynns Falls which was demolished early in the 20th century.
- Dams - Alberton/Daniels
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The Alberton Dam and the millrace.
- Dams - Alberton/Daniels
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This wooden dam was on the Patapsco at Alberton (later renamed Daniels).
- Dams - Avalon
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Avalon Dam on the Patapsco River was upstream from the Thomas Viaduct at Relay.
Shown are vestiges of the Avalon Nail and Iron Works which had been destroyed by the 1868 flood.
The dam and stone buildings are all that remain from the old Dorsey's Forge, purchsed by Benjamin, James, Johnathan, Elias, George and Thomas Ellicot in 1815. The brothers started the Avalon Rolling Mill and Nail Factory. In the course of time the Ellicott Family's flour business collapsed and their properties passed into other hands. The Nail Factory was variously owned by McCrone Manning, Brooke Grubb and Henry L. STickney.
- Dams - Avalon
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Avalon Dam on the Patapsco River was upstream from the Thomas Viaduct at Relay. The dam was part of the Avalon Iron and Nail Works that had been destroyed by an 1868 flood.
- Dams - Avalon
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Avalon Dam on the Patapsco River was upstream from the Thomas Viaduct at Relay.
Shown are vestiges of the Avalon Nail and Iron Works which had been destroyed by the 1868 flood.
The dam and stone buildings are all that remain from the old Dorsey's Forge, purchsed by Benjamin, James, Johnathan, Elias, George and Thomas Ellicot in 1815. The brothers started the Avalon Rolling Mill and Nail Factory. In the course of time the Ellicott Family's flour business collapsed and their properties passed into other hands. The Nail Factory was variously owned by McCrone Manning, Brooke Grubb and Henry L. STickney.
- Dams - Avalon
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Avalon Dam on the Patapsco River was upstream from the Thomas Viaduct at Relay.
Shown also are vestiges of the Avalon Nail and Iron Works which had been destroyed by the 1868 flood. The dam and stone buildings were all that remain from the old Dorsey's Forge, purchsed by Benjamin, James, Johnathan, Elias, George and Thomas Ellicot in 1815. The brothers started the Avalon Rolling Mill and Nail Factory. In the course of time the Ellicott Family's flour business collapsed and their properties passed into other hands. The Nail Factory was variously owned by McCrone Manning, Brooke Grubb and Henry L. STickney.
- Dams - Avalon
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Avalon Dam on the Patapsco River was upstream from the Thomas Viaduct at Relay. The dam was part of the Avalon Iron and Nail Works that had been destroyed by an 1868 flood.
- Dams - Avalon Dam
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Avalon Dam, on the Patapsco upstream from the Thomas Viaduct, Relay.
# 5534019 (c. 1977) shows two teenagers and a younger boy (with long blond hair), all with fishing poles, trying their luck in the waters below the dam.
See Panorama, p. 88, # 134.
- Dams - Avalon Dam
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Avalon Dam on the Patapsco River was upstream from the Thomas Viaduct at Relay.
The site also contained vestiges of the Avalon Nail and Iron Works which had been destroyed by the 1868 flood.The dam and stone buildings were all that remained from the old Dorsey's Forge, purchsed by Benjamin, James, Johnathan, Elias, George and Thomas Ellicot in 1815. The brothers started the Avalon Rolling Mill and Nail Factory. In the course of time the Ellicott Family's flour business collapsed and their properties passed into other hands. The Nail Factory was variously owned by McCrone Manning, Brooke Grubb and Henry L. STickney.
- Dams - Avalon Dam
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The Avalon Dam was upstream from the Thomas Viaduct in Relay,
This view shows vestiges of the Avalon Nail and Iron Works which had been shattered by a 1868 flood. The dam and some stone buildings are all that remained from the old Dorsey's Forge, purchased by Benjamin, James, Jonathan, Elias, George and Thomas Ellicott, sons of Andrew Ellicott, in 1815. The brothers started the Avalon Rolling Mill and Nail factory. In the course of time the Ellicott family's flour business collapsed and their properties passed into other hands. The Nail Factory was variously owned by McCrone, Manning - (a B & O Railroad secretary), Brooke Grubb,and Henry L Stickney - (whose main business was in Canton). The factory was destroyed in the great flood of July 24, 1868.
- Dams - Baltimore City - Timanus Mill Dam
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The old Cedar Avenue bridge and Timanus Mill Dam with the grist mill on the right.
- Dams - Beckleysville
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Remains of a dam in the Beckleysville area, seen during a drought in 1965.
The people in the image are not identified. The Image is from a home-made postcard, which was copied from a slide.
- Dams - Bloede's Dam
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Bloede's Dam, Patapsco River, built 1907 near Ilchester. (2 miles SE of Ellicott City.)
The dam ( remains seen in # 3604024) was 220 feet long, was 40' wide at the base and had a drop of 26 1/2 '. It was an Amburson Hydraulic Construction Co. (Boston type) reinforced concrete, slab and buttress dam. It was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway.
# 5534016 shows the intake for additional unit, showing submerged rocks in the upstream part of the dam.
- Dams - Bloede's Dam
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Bloede's Dam built in 1907 on the Patapsco River near Ilchester. The dam was 220 feet long and 40 feet wide at the base. It had a drop of 26 ½ feet. A Boston type dam of reinforced concrete, slab and buttress, it was built by Amburson Hydraulic Construction Company. It was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway.
The photo shows the power plant area with light received from windows under the falls.
- Dams - Bloede's Dam
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Bloede's Dam on the Patapsco River. The dam, built in 1907 near Ilchester, was 220 feet long with a 40-foot wide base and a drop of 26.6 feet. It was constructed of slabs and buttresses made of Amburson Hydraulic Construction Co. reinforced concrete (Boston type). This was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway.
- Dams - Bloede's Dam
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The remains of Bloede's Dam, located on the Patapsco River near Ilchester. The dam, built in 1907, was 220 feet long and 40 feet wide at the base with a drop of 26 and 1/2 feet. It was constructed as an Amburson Hydraulic Construction Company (Boston type) reinforced concrete slab and buttress dam. Bloede's Dam was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway.
- Dams - Bloede's Dam
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Bloede's Dam on the Patapsco River near Ilchester. Built in 1907, the dam was 220 feet long and was 40 feet wide at the base with a drop of 26 1/2 feet. It was an Amburson Hydraulic Construction Company (Boston type) reinforced concrete, slab and buttress dam. It also was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway. Windows of the power plant can be seen on the left of the spillway. The dam was destroyed during tropical storm Agnes in 1972.
- Dams - Bloede's Dam
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A curtain of water is formed by the falls at Bloede's Dam, located on the Patapsco River near Ilchester. The dam, built in 1907, was 220 feet long and 40 feet wide at the base with a drop of 26 and 1/2 feet. It was constructed as an Amburson Hydraulic Construction Company (Boston type) reinforced concrete slab and buttress dam. Bloede's Dam was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway.
- Dams - Bloede's Dam
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Bloede's Dam built in 1907 on the Patapsco River near Ilchester. The dam was 220 feet long and 40 feet wide at the base. It had a drop of 26 ½ feet. A Boston type dam of reinforced concrete, slab and buttress, it was built by Amburson Hydraulic Construction Company.
It was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway.
The photo shows the windows.
- Dams - Bloede's Dam
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Photo shows Bloede's Dam, Patapsco River, built 1907 near Ilchester. The dam was 220 feet long, 40' wide at the base and had a drop of 26 1/2'. It was an Amburson Hydraulic Construction Co. (Boston type) reinforced concrete, slab and buttress dam. It was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway.
# 6921057 shows the windows at the left.
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