Collection of deposit records from the Bureau of Water and Wastewater for the City of Baltimore describing the expansion of the Baltimore water supply during the 1920s. This group of records specifically relate to the Gunpowder Watershed and especially the town of Warren. Original records for much of this material was later transferred to Baltimore City Archives as part of the Department of Public Works record group: BRG47-43, Water Supply History.
A PDF containing images of MSA SC 5869-3-1: Report of the Valuation Commission to the City Solicitor of Baltimore concerning the Value of Land and Improvements Required by the City for Enlargement of the Water Supply, Volume 1 is available from this link. The original of this item, minus the index, was included in the transfer to BRG47-43 as part of box 23: "Properties Part 2". It does not include the report title as given above.
Series 2: Maps were donated as gifts to MSA
Items temporarily on deposit and later withdrawn by the donor were an inventory and guides created by Ronald Parks (Series 1); Subject files (Series 4) and a copy of Building the Gunpowder Falls - Montebello Tunner, 1935-1940 by Ronald Parks (Series 5).
Series 6 consists of research pertaining to Baltimore City court cases involving the water supply (links are provided in the items). |
