Acquisition of Hoffman Property by Baltimore City
2 July 1901:
Hoffman lands sold to Rockdale Powder Co.
BA Land Records, MBM 245, p. 476-488; Carroll Land Records JHB 93,
p.
266-285 (note that both deeds are the same).
Land sold for $100,000. 7 tracts of land, totaling 1160 acres.
30 December 1924:
Rockdale sold lands to Title Guarantee & Trust Co.
BA Land Records 605, p. 216-231 [CE62-506];
Carroll Land Records WMM 144, p. 505-514 [CE56-132] (note that both
deeds are the same).
7 tracts of land, totaling 1160 acres. Sold for $5.00 and "other valuable considerations."
14 January 1925
Title Guarantee & Trust Co. sold land to Mayor & City Council, 14 January 1925
BA Land Records WPC 627, p. 416-416 [CE62-627]
The city bought the land for $5.00 and "other valuable considerations" (i.e. a player to be named later). Land purchased for the construction of Prettyboy Dam.
Map showing locations of paper mills in northern Baltimore County
Hoffman & Sons owned Gunpowder, Clipper, Rockdale, and Hoffman (at Silver Run) paper mills. Not shown on the map is the Hoffman's Marble Vale mill, located on Paper Mill Road, near Cockeysville,
which burned in 1888.
Map from McGrain, From Pig Iron to Cotton Duck, p. 269.
Sources:
John W. McGrain, From Pig Iron to Cotton Duck: A History of Manufacturing Villages in Baltimore County, vol. 1, p. 274-279.
Mary A. Seitz, The History of the Hoffman Paper Mills in Maryland, p. 51-53.
