Rockland Industries

American textile manufacturing company Rockland IndustriesIndustryTextile manufacturingHeadquarters Baltimore, Maryland Rockland Industries, Inc. was a textile manufacturing company in the United States. The company was headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and had manufacturing facilities in Bamberg, South Carolina. Rockland Industries had sales in more than 90 countries worldwide, including the United States. History Rockland Industries was founded as Rockland Bleach and Dye Works in 1831 by three brothers from England - James, Robert, and John Wright. The company was formed in the Rockland Historic District of Brooklandville, an area of present-day Baltimore, and is recorded as the oldest corporation in Baltimore County. Rockland Bleach and Dye Works produced cotton and Irish woolens for the United States market. The location of the headquarters and Baltimore manufacturing on Edison Highway was once Bugle Field, which was primarily used as a Negro league baseball field that was home to the Baltimore Elite Giants and Baltimore Black Sox from the late 1920s until around 1950. It was home to great players such as Roy Campanella,[citation needed] and was also the site that several M