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The Avondale Mill was a large gable-front stone structure, three stories in height, and 10 bays long by three wide. It was located on the bank of the... Patuxent River in the city of Laurel, Prince George's County, Maryland. It was constructed in 1844-1845. At that time it was provided with the machinery for the manufacture of fine cloth, running 1,500 cotton spindles. In the mid-1850s, it was converted to a gristmill. The waters of the Patuxent provided a 8-9 foot fall and gave the mill 60-70 horsepower to use. By 1904, the mill employed only 4 people, but produced $10,400 in product annually. Avondale Mill was the only one of Laurel's 19th century mills to have survived into the late 20th century. A devastating fire on December 19, 1991, destroyed the mill. The remains were then demolished and the site cleared for use as a community park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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Laura Cayouette is an American actress, writer, producer and director. Cayouette was born in Laurel, Prince George's County, Maryland. She worked at... Universal City Walk Hollywood cinemas in the 1990s before becoming an actress. She has appeared in commercials for American Airlines, J. C. Penney, T.J. Maxx and Entenmann's cookies.
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Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and three nicknames for it are occasionally used. Maryland is the 9th smallest state by area, but the 19th most populous and the 5th most densely... populated of the 50 United States. The state's most populated city is Baltimore. Its capital is Annapolis. It was named after Queen Henrietta Maria. Maryland has an area of 12,406.68 square miles and is comparable in overall area with the European country of Belgium . It is the 42nd largest/9th smallest state, and is closest in size to Hawaii , the next smallest state. The next largest state, Maryland's neighbor West Virginia, is almost twice the size of Maryland .
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