Baltimore Chrome Works was a

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ore refinery with its headquarters and main factory located at

Fells Point, Baltimore Fell's Point is a historic waterfront neighborhood in southeastern Baltimore, Maryland, established around 1763 along the north shore of the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore, Baltimore Harbor and the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River. ...

, USA. Isaac Tyson started mining

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in the area around

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in 1813 and built the Baltimore Chrome Works at Fells Point in 1845. The works became part of Mutual Chemical Company in 1908, and merged into

Allied Chemical Allied Corp. was a major American company with operations in the chemical, aerospace, automotive, oil and gas industries. It was initially formed in 1920 as the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation as an amalgamation of five chemical companies. In ...

in 1954.Maryland Department of the Environment, Baltimore, MD (2004-10-05
"Allied Chemical Corporation (known as Honeywell, Inc.), Baltimore, Maryland."
Waste Management Administration; Environmental Restoration & Redevelopment Program. The plant, which was rebuilt in 1951, employed 375 people at peak production. The factory at Fells Point operated until 1985, when it was closed down. The company had contaminated the site with

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, and

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, the successor to Allied Chemical, was ordered by the

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to perform a cleanup in the 1986. The order was confirmed by a judicial

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in 1989. Honeywell completed the remediation in 1999.

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