Early Business ....
The first business to set up shop in Curtis Bay was the South Baltimore Car Wheel Company, in 1887. Engaged in the manufacture of railroad cars and wheels, the "car shops" along Curtis Avenue were soon followed by the Baltimore Sugar Refinery which later burned, was rebuilt, and then dismantled and sold in 1897.Others following were the Monarch Engineering and Supply Company (smelting furnaces), National Supply Company (bolts and hardware fittings), and the Ryan-McDonald Manufacturing Company (railway construction supplies).
One of the first corporations to locate in old Cromwell's Marsh was the Martin A. Wagner Company (canning and oyster packing) which began laying out the town of East Brooklyn.
The above paragraph mentions the Martin A. Wagner Company, canning and oyster packing , as being one of the first corporations to locate in "old Cromwell's Marsh".
Question: Can you guess where that might have been on the early 1878 map that you looked at? Could Wagner's Point have been named after Martin A. Wagner? Click to see some photos of oyster packing houses in Baltimore taken around 1914.
Food Inspection - Oysters (1914)
Oysters - Steaming & Shucking
Food Inspection - Oyster Industry (1914)
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