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Warren   1883006
Boys and girls gyms, backs of houses backing onto the millrace,center and right middle distance, dim outline of the grist mill left middle distance.
Warren   3137016
An article published in the Baltimore Sun, possibly from the 1950s. This selection is by Wilton L. Howard and recounts his memories of the town of Warren, around the time it was destroyed by the Loch Raven Reservoir expansion project.
Warren   2630002
Buildings of the Warren Manufacturing Company along the millrace in the cotton mill town of Warren. Seen are the boy's gym (former stable), girl's gym, an office building, and grazing horses. On the right is the wooden bridge over the millrace and the road leading up to Hillside Farm. The old mill building on the far side of the millrace is just visible in the middle between the girl's gym and the office building.
Warren   2205005
The company store on Main Street in Warren. Apparently the stone building had a frame addition on one side. Photo shows a crowd of children standing in the dirt street watching the photographer and a bread truck advertising breads and pies. Part of a horse drawn farm wagon can be seen in the left foreground.
Warren   2216003
The Thomas Powers broom factory was acquired by him from James Bamber in December 1890. It was then owned by Catherine Powers Kearney (or "Carney") and her husband Robert. Later, rented by William Craumer who did odd jobs and was reputed to be able to mend anything.
Warren   12265003
The boys’ and girls’ gyms in Warren, taken from a northwest angle looking north to south. Only the rear of the girls’ gym and company office seen. The outline of the front of the five-story main mill building is seen over the girls' gym roofline.
Warren - Groups   3177016
Photo shows Warren schoolboys returning home along Warren Road in the winter of 1921.
Warren - Hillside Farm   2205003
The log cabin or bungalow guest house at Hillside Farm, Warren. Building was removed in 1920. In the 1980's, Nolan Hedrick remembered that it had been used by Warren Boy Scouts for their meetings. He thought that Charles Gambrill Baldwin had built it. Morgan Baldwin, Jr. reported that there were different levels in the bungalow, including a breakfast room. Baldwin said that there was a drawing room 30 feet long, and that the Baldwin family's servants slept in the attic where there were five or six rooms.
Warren - Houses   2665027
Farm buildings on the property of J.M. Shelly near Warren.
Warren - Houses - Hilltop Farm   26201025
A stairway, aalmost cleared of 70 years of overgrowth, on the path down from Hilltop Farm, the summer estate of Summerfield Baldwin, to the company store on Main Street in Warren.
Warren - Personalities   2507020
Presumed to show Ada and Dorothy Tawney standing on a plank during the enlargement of the Warren Methodist Episcopal Church after 1910. Shows the wooden structural elements in place for the addition.
Warren - Personalities   3177007
Cousins related through Britton-family kinship, these men are identified in the front as Truman Bull, Adrian Christie, and Charles O. Keys. Standing in the rear is Warren Keys, and an unidentified man.
Warren - Personalities   2507024
Amelia (Maldeis) Frantz, Maude Britton and an unidentified young man. The women are seated in a 1920s touring car.
Warren - Personalities   2507023
Edward T. Britton Sr., scion of a Warren family, is holding the hand of a youngster identified as Bunny Rickets.
Warren - Personalities   2507017
Maude Britton and Henry Zink of Warren. Henry Zink established a Ford dealership at the southeast corner of the intersection of Warren and York Roads. He used one of the annex buildings from the demolished Warren Mill. The building burned in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
Warren - Personalities   2507021
Francis Lee and Doris Britton, who later became Mrs. John Ekin, both of Warren, dressed as Red Cross aides.
Warren - Personalities   19141013
John McGraw, City Water Engineer, second from left, front row; Alfred H. Hartmen, engineer, third from left, rear; Calvin Hendrick, Chief Engineer, Sewage Commission, third from right, rear row; Mayor James H. Preston (1911-1919), extreme right, rear row; and other officials at Warren on the Gunpowder River.
Warren - Personalities - Baldwin, Dorothy   3186015
Dorothy Baldwin (1886-1961)a daughter of Summerfield Baldwin Sr., was subsequently Mrs. James Garrettson of New York. The photograph was taken on the porch at Hillside Farm in Warren.
Warren - Personalities - Baldwin, Juliet Catherine   2205027
Juliet Catherine Baldwin, a Warren summertime resident and daughter of Summerfield Baldwin Sr. An 1898 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she died in 1910 from a ruptured appendix that went untreated due to the Christian Science beliefs which she and her mother held.
Warren - Personalities - Baldwin, William Woodward   2254004
A scene from Hillside Farm, near the Warren Factory. At the net, holding period tennis rackets in the rear garden tennis court of the farm, are Alice Leakin, Juliet Sewell, William Woodward Baldwin, and Sarah Franklin. Morgan Baldwin Jr. reported that there were Dorothy Perkins roses planted around the tennis court to hold the soil. A number of large chestnut trees are also close by.
Warren - Personalities - Britton Brothers   2507061
THE WARREN CORNET BAND The young men identified here are Richard Nicholas Britton Jr., James Rutledge Britton, Roy Donzelle Britton and Edward Talbott Britton.
Warren - Personalities - Britton, Maude   2507016
Maude Britton and Bryce Thompson who were both from Warren.
Warren - Personalities - Group   2507013
Warren residents and neighbors Richard Britton, Mary Britton, Bryce Thompson (b. 1896), Catherine Zink and Henry Zink (1896-1962) standing beside a 1920's touring car. Richard Britton was a son of Edward T. Britton Sr. and brother of both Maude Britton and Mary Britton. He had a twin brother, Edward T. Jr. Bryce Thompson was the son of Dr. George Thompson and a brother of Hilda (or Matilda) Thompson.
Warren - Personalities - Tawney, Benson B. Tawney   3207006
Benson B. Tawney (1914-1987) brother of Dorothy Tawney and son of Charles Hawkins Tawney of Warren.
Warren - Personalities - Tawney, Charles Hawkins   3207005
Charles Hawkins Tawney (1866-1922) married Nettie Martina Uhler (1873-1953) daughter of Union Army veteran William H. Uhler. Tawney, son of the Shawan blacksmith, moved into the Uhler family's Warren Road house (built 1882) on the north side of Warren Road, near to and east of the intersection with Sherwood Road

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