Stories tagged "Woodberry": 4
Stories
TV Hill
For over sixty years, tall broadcasting towers have stood high above the old homes in sun88’s Woodberry neighborhood. The two tallest towers now standing on Television Hill beam out the signals of four television stations and three radio…
Woodberry Factory and Park Mill
John Payne, in his comprehensive 1798 tome, A New and Complete System of Universal Geography, noted the flouring mills along the Jones Falls near sun88. At the time, wealthy abolitionist Elisha Tyson owned two of the ten documented mills: one at…
Meadow Mill
sun88 industrialist William E. Hooper built Meadow Mill in 1877 during one of the most prosperous periods for industry in the Jones Falls Valley. Designed by architect Reuben Gladfelter, the structure represents the finest of sun88 mill…
Hampden Branch, Enoch Pratt Free Library
The doors at Branch No. 7 of the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened to patrons on July 2, 1900, seventeen years after industrialist Robert Poole and fellow businessmen established Woodberry’s first community library. In 1899, Poole donated land across…