Baltimore Slave Trade

Although the United States banned the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1808, a domestic trade from the Upper South to the emerging cotton-growing regions of the Deep South thrived until the 1860's. Baltimore-based dealers supplied the trade, operating slave pens at ...

Boundary Lines of Baltimore Town

1729

[This marker portrays the subject in a pictorial manner. It shows the major streets of Baltimore in 1729. The six stars on the map represent the locations of this and five other identical markers.]

Marker is on East Lexington ...

Baltimore's Great Fire

Started 10-48 A.M.

February 7 1904

Under control 11-30 A.M.

February 8 1904

Property destroyed - $100 000 000

Insurance paid - $32 000 000

Acres covered - 140

Lives lost - none

Beginning at Liberty and German Streets the fire swept north to Fayette Street east to ...

The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore

(Unitarian and Universalist)

In 1817, when Baltimore Town boasted 60,000 inhabitants and Mount Vernon Place was still a forest, a group of leading citizens met in the home of Henry Payson "to form a religious society and build a church ...

Baltimore College of Dental Surgery

This tablet erected by the

Maryland State Dental Association

marks the original site of the

Baltimore College of Dental Survery

Founded in the year 1840

the first dental college in the world.

Marker is on Hopkins Place, on the left ...

Baltimore Arts Tower

Once known as the Bromo Seltzer Tower, this building is a monument to Captain Isaac Emerson, the imaginative chemist who developed a famous headache remedy, and named it after Mt. Bromo - an active volcano in Java.

Emerson came to ...

The McDonoghs of Baltimore

Baltimoreans associated the name McDonogh with a well-known private school founded in 1873. Buried here are the parents of the school's founder, Irish natives John (1734-1809) and Elizabeth McDonogh (1747-1808).

John McDonogh, a brickmaker, took part in two events that shaped ...

Poe's Baltimore

A Place of Beginnings and Endings

Edgar Allan Poe, the American literary genius best known for his short stories and poems, often claimed Baltimore as his birthplace. In Baltimore, Poe found love and affection, launched his literary career - and ...

Port of Baltimore

Each year thousands of ships from all over the world call at the port of Baltimore. Fort McHenry lies at the heart of this great complex of channels, docks, cargo piers, shipyards, warehouses, and rail terminals.

Petroleum, iron ore, raw ...

The Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore

This house was built by Rembrandt Peale in 1814 as a Natural History Museum and Gallery of the Fine Arts. Robert Carey Long was the Architect. Purchased by the City of Baltimore, 1830, Jacob Small being Mayor, it was occupied ...