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Oella and the first textile company chartered in Maryland
1808
Oella, Maryland
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The Union Manufacturing Company started buying land on this bank of the Patapsco in 1808, put up a cotton mill and built the Stone Row of workers' houses beside it. It was the first textile company chartered by the state of Maryland, and by 1820 it was the largest textile operation outside New England. The village of millworkers' homes still climbs the hillside between Catonsville and Ellicott City.
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