TOPIC: Mills - Textile - Hampden - Woodbury

Description: The Hooperwood Textile Mill at Woodbury, adjoining Druid Hill Park. These more modern factories belonging to the W.E. Hooper & Sons textile empire were built in 1904. Hooper began as an associate of Horatio N. Gambrill but had purchased all of Gambrill’s interest in Wm. E. Hooper & Company in 1865. Other subsequent acquisitions included the Washington Cotton Factory and the Park, Clipper, and Woodberry Mills. The enterprise consolidated in 1899 as the Woodberry Manufacturing Co. One of the cotton duck machines at Hooperwood wove a roll 240 inches wide and was supplied by 18,000 spools. An old gatehouse still stands near Druid Park Drive.

Date: June 1930
Photographer: unknown
Source: Power Pictorial, Consolidated Gas Co.
(The digitized image of this photograph has been edited to improve its appearance.)

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