Industry

Early Bethlehem Industries:

Bethlehem was designed for self-sufficiency. Its residents grew their own food and made their own goods from local materials. It order to do this, they had three areas in the community where industrial activity was performed:

1. Light-crafts such as spinning, weaving, tailoring, shoemaking, silkworm culture, and baking were done in the choir houses on Church Street;
2. They had a sawmill, laundry, flax processing house, and a linen bleachery located on Sand island, just under the present day Fahey Bridge; 
3. And the major heavy Industries, such as leather tanning, grist-milling, potting, oil milling, smithing, which were dependent upon water power, had to be placed along the Monocacy creek in what we now refer to as the Colonial Industrial Quarter.