1893 Map of Gunpowder

About this map

Jerusalem Mills and Harford Furnace stand as markers of early industrial activity along the waterways of Baltimore County and Harford County in the late nineteenth century. The landscape is defined by the complex estuaries of the Chesapeake Bay, where the Gunpowder Falls and Little Gunpowder Falls meet the tide. This survey records a transition from traditional mill sites and a Spoke Factory to a landscape increasingly dominated by the heavy infrastructure of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.