[2][3] London Fog introduced its first Maincoat and was found/sold in Saks Fifth Avenue luxury department stores in 1954, being one of the first companies to sell the raincoats and trench coats.
Ultimately the company was renamed to "London Fog Inc."[2] The original location of the Londontown Manufacturing Company, Inc. at its longtime London Fog mill factory building for almost four decades with additional small single-story offices structure added in the 1950s on the northwest corner (facing Clipper Mill Road and Union Avenue) and a large concrete walled two-stories warehouse annex on the south side alongside the stream bank.
The old City College then at the southwest corner of North Howard and West Centre Streets and adjacent to the first downtown campus of The Johns Hopkins University, was an all-boys secondary institution, recognized as the third oldest public high school in America, founded 1839.
Hall of Fame as an outstanding alumnus / "Collegian", Baltimorean / Marylander and businessman / entrepreneur and is listed / pictured in the series of commemorative plaques in the Memorial Corridor at The Castle.
It had a small steel car bridge and employees gate on the east side crossing the Falls stream underneath the overhead Expressway to reach Hampden and Clipper Mill Road going further south.
Both twin neighborhoods with many similar thick-walled stone / brick millworkers houses with pitched roofs and dormer windows for the second floor or attics along with early 20th century Baltimore-style rowhouses with little front yards, plus some century-and-half old wood-frame / shingled cottages.
After almost a quarter-century and suffering another disastrous flood from Hurricane / Tropical Storm Agnes in June 1972, the company headquarters and some industrial manufacturing work was moved in 1976 fifteen miles northwest to Eldersburg, Maryland, in southern then rural / suburban Carroll County, Maryland, to a more modern one-level complex on a newly laid-out Londontown Boulevard, anchored by a modernistic replica steel-frame "Big Ben" British / London style clock tower.
[4] The old historic Meadow Mill factory continued to make London Fog raincoats until 1989, when it was later redeveloped / renovated into commercial offices, apartments / condos and a large gymnasium / athletic club in the newer 1950s era annex warehouse reusing the old original historic name of "Meadow Mill" with its refurbished landmark clock / bell tower still visible after 147 years to heavily streaming vehicular traffic along the parallel Jones Falls Expressway (Interstate 83 in Maryland).